Outside the Beltway

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

A golf legend passes away.

Time the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

The A Priest, a Rabbi and a Swami walk into a Babar Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

An Oklahoma police officer has been charged in the shooting death of an African-American man while North Carolina authorities continue to balk on releasing a video in a shooting case there.

A new study debunks an old idea.

An unsurprising decision from the Federal Reserve.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

The GOP civil war continues…..

Time the Monday OTB Caption Contest^TM

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

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

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

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

The minimum wage has been a big part of this year’s election cycle, mainly due to Bernie Sander’s campaign and his idea of a national minimum wage. There has been lots of discussion of this, but most of it is just, well, bad. There are really two things that one can point to as to why wages above the market wage can be good.

The United States and Russia have reached an agreement to end fighting in Syria, but it seems unlikely to succeed given that it doesn’t involve the parties actually doing the fighting.

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

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

North Korea conducts yet another nuclear weapons test, and it’s unclear what anyone can do to stop them.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.