Outside the Beltway

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

Here’s our debate over shutting down the government over Obamacare in a nutshell.

Tom Clancy, author of dozens of bestselling military thriller novels, has died aged 66.

It remains to be seen whether Congressional Republicans will force a government shutdown. What’s already clear is how counterproductive it would be.

Should one person being “offended” by more important than a vast majority who are not?

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

f Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork.

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

Author Elmore Leonard has died at the age of 87.

My latest for The National Interest, “Clapper’s Bodyguard of Lies,” has posted.

The military has declared that Playboy and Penthouse don’t violate its standards but banned them from its exchanges, anyway.

Last month, a retired Navy SEAL came out as transgender. Those still in uniform, however, must serve in silence.

A state of perpetual war is incompatible with good mental health and stable family relationships.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around any more.

Apparently, our biggest problem in America is now the name of an NFL franchise.

What happened at the IRS looks a lot more like deliberate political bias than simple incompetence.

Legendary country music singer George Jones has died, aged 81.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

The GOP isn’t going to solve it’s problems solely by concentrating on “messaging.”

The Fourth Amendment got even weaker yesterday.

The Boy Scouts is strongly reconsidering its ban on gays.

Firearms are set to pass the automobile as the instrument for American deaths.

One of West Point’s first female graduates has married her long-time girlfriend at the Cadet Chapel.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

Shannon Eastin has become the first woman to officiate an NFL game, thanks to the lockout of the regular referees.

President Obama says he’s a huge Clint Eastwood fan and wasn’t offended by his performance at the RNC.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

If a new Gallup poll is any indication, Paul Ryan was not a great pick.

Between the polls and the state of the economy, It’s rather obvious why the Obama campaign keeps trying to change the subject.