Outside the Beltway

A splendid idea but why stop there?

The legendary comic book artist is gone at 80.

A illustration from the Senate race in Georgia.

Vice President Harris gets better care than the average American. Cue the outrage!

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

“Tufted Titmouse Says What?”

How rules shape the game.

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

And yet the state still extracted their pound of flesh

Are retired officers on defense boards presumed liars?

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

Added historical context to ongoing conversations about American democracy.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

What are the limits of representation?

The Pope is indeed Catholic. The rest is up for debate.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

A follow on from yesterday.

The incumbent should win easily but turnout is low and the consequences dire.

Has the Internet made us more selfish?

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

The longest-serving Republican Senator has died at the age of 88.

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

Our representation problems are far, far more about structure than they are about the messaging of the parties.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

Did we not already know this?

The numbers don’t match the perception.

Some 230,000 Americans have died needlessly since vaccinations became widely available.

“In the Pavement Crack”

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

Because they’re indoctrinating the youth with their biased agendas and liberal, unfactual diastribes.

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

An example of when better isn’t better.

We expect far more from the Oval Office than is reasonable.

There are too many variables to make generalized calculations.