Outside the Beltway

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to tell people they’re just “average Americans,” but they’re lying and the American people seem to have figured out that they’re lying.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Americans have become deeply cynical about government. To some extent that is a good thing, but it’s reaching unhealthy levels.

One of Washington’s giants has passed away.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?

If Hillary Clinton runs for President, questions surrounding the Benghazi attack will continue to dog her.

Who watches Sunday morning talk shows anymore?

Dinesh D’Souza has been indicted by a federal grand jury for being incredibly stupid.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

Ron Fournier sees major similarities but ignores key differences.

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

Divided government is the worst political system ever, except for all the others.

So much for the most transparent Administration in history.

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Republicans should reject the calls to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the unfolding scandals in Washington.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

Partisan targeting by the IRS should not be permitted to stand.

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

For several years, Tea Party and other conservative groups have contended that they were being targeted for investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and it turns out that they were right.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Apparently, Benghazi has not faded (at least not for some).

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Bob Woodward once again has Washington abuzz with a White House scoop. This one is BS.

A theory on why Benghazi will not die as a political issue.

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.

Does the public still care about the personal transgressions of politicians? The evidence seems to suggest they don’t.