Outside the Beltway

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

The Veepstakes continues.

One of the greatest coaches of all time has passed.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

Another big night for Donald Trump puts him another step closer to being the presumptive GOP nominee.

They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

Donald Trump is positioned to do very well on Super Tuesday, while Ted Cruz should win his home state. Marco Rubio, meanwhile, seems to be struggling to maintain his relevance.

Hillary Clinton crushed Bernie Sander last night in South Carolina, pushing the race further down the path that leads to an inevitable outcome.

Hillary Clinton still has a massive lead in South Carolina, and in the Super Tuesday states that follow.

St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.

In a new Gallup poll, Republicans say they want a “conservative” as their Presidential nominee, but they may regret what happens if they get the kind of hard-right conservative they seem to be thinking of.

Remarks by a Democratic politician in Virginia regarding the Administration’s Syrian refugee program have brought up disturbing reminders of a shameful time in American history.

Ben Carson displays incoherence and ignorance on foreign policy issues that disqualify him from being considered a serious candidate for President of the United States.

Thanks apparently in part to body camera footage, two police officers in Louisiana are facing murder charges in the shooting death of a child during a police chase.

A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.

The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

A black leader is running a billboard campaign to improve his community. Racism ensues.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

Tomorrow promises to be an historic day at the Supreme Court, but it’s been a long legal, political, and social battle.

Ben Carson will be entering the race for President next month, but don’t pretend for a minute that he’s a serious candidate.

Legislators in Tennessee have taken the “gun rights” argument further than it was ever intended to go.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

The two decade long argument over same-sex marriage appears headed for its final legal showdown.

Even with a House and Senate majority, the GOP is unlikely to get what it wants in its current immigration battle with the President.

Shortly after the new year, we could know whether or not the Supreme Court will issue a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage by the end of June.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

Based on the available evidence, there’s very little evidence that Voter ID laws had a significant impact on the midterm elections.