Outside the Beltway

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

In the end, an effort by Democrats to block Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court does not seem like a good use of their rather limited options.

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

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

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters have a foolish and unworkable “plan” to steal Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. They should abandon it.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

A Federal Jury orders Rolling Stone to pay up.

And the winner is……

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Federal law and the rights of transgender students.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

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

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

After a unanimous Supreme Court victory, Bob McDonnell won’t be facing another corruption trial.

Evan McMullin’s quixotic campaign for President continues.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

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

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.