Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court’s next term doesn’t start for three months, but it’s becoming clear that the Justices will have to deal with marriage equality when it does.

Hobby Lobby wins, but it’s unclear just how far this opinion will go.

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

The people are ready. Is the Supreme Court?

A turning point in public opinion?

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

A 13 month string of legal victories for marriage equality reaches Oregon.

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

Rick Perry continues to hint at another Presidential run.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

Crony capitalism in The Sooner State.

Portland, Oregon government officials and USA Today headline writers are innumerate.

Blaming Obama for the security bubble he travels in is, in the end, a pretty dumb argument.

The string of victories for same-sex marriage continues as a Federal Judge rules that the Commonwealth of Kentucky must recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

The fight for marriage equality takes another step forward.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

Weeks of speculation that Texas would fire Mack Brown and hire Nack Saban were put to an end yesterday evening.

Fifty years after the Stand in the Schoolhouse door, there’s another standoff with recalcitrant states on civil rights.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

Ted Cruz is holding the Senate floor “until I can no longer speak,” but he still won’t be able to stop the Senate from going forward.

Tommy Morrison, a boxing heavyweight champion from 1993 to 1995, has died at 44.

Some thoughts on reform.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.

Erstwhile country music legend Garth Brooks has become a grandfather.

J.J. Cale, the Grammy-winning songwriter of such classics as “Cocaine” and “Call Me the Breeze,” has died aged 74.

A top Republican Senator blasts the plan by some of his colleagues to “defund” Obamacare.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are openly disagreeing with a proposed strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Obamacare isn’t repealed.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

An employer has scored a major victory in its fight against Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage mandate.

The Moore, Oklahoma neighborhood as it was before the tornado.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

The American people aren’t panicking.

Are civil liberties once again at risk in the wake of the bombing attack in Boston?