Outside the Beltway

The Front Runner Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

The Greatest Of All Time.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

A country music legend has passed.

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

The Supreme Court appeared deadlocked during oral argument in the latest case dealing with the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandates.

My latest for RealClearDefense, “The Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm,” has posted. The headline belies the argument.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

The Army Chief of Staff and Commandant of the Marine Corps told Congress that women should be required to register for the draft just like men are.

President Obama’s final State Of The Union Address was largely a recognition of the fact that his time on the world stage is quickly coming to an end.

Jim Webb’s recent criticism of Hillary Clinton is renewing speculation about an independent bid for the White House, but he hardly seems like a viable candidate for such a run.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a Court Martial for the circumstances that led to his being capture and held captive by the Taliban for five years.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

Given his rhetoric, it’s fairly clear that Donald Trump is drawing from a poisonous political well. So there’s no point in failing to acknowledge reality.

Disturbing reports over the weekend that American leaders may not be getting the kind of unbiased intelligence analysis about ISIS that they need to make decisions.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.

For the first time since Chang Kai-Shek escaped across the Taiwan Strait, the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China will meet this weekend.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

Once again, Donald Trump is succeeding because he is saying things many Republicans agree with.

The Afghan Army isn’t doing so well against the Taliban right now.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Donald Trump stuck his foot in his mouth again.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

In the past month, the Chinese stock market has lost more than 1/3 of its value.

The latest Census data show a changing America.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Does an individual’s changed gender identity alter history?

North Korea now claims it has miniaturized nuclear warheads sufficienctly so that they can be placed on missiles. They also say they can launch missiles from submarines.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of three students disciplined for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo

The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor has 50 photos from 50 years ago.

John McCain is not a fan of Code Pink.