Outside the Beltway

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

Netanyahu will take it.

A reaffirmation rather than a revelation.

A clip from today’s Very Important Meeting at Quantico.

Here we go again.

Trump hires only the best!

There be whales here.

SCOTUS continues to favor the executive over the legislature.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

Colombia’s President said the wrong thing and had his visa revoked.

The evil of others rarely brings out our best.

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

A few more details have emerged.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

“Lunch”

What democratic backsliding looks like.

More on the conflict of alleged beliefs and who one follows.

Every general and admiral in a command billet has been called for a last-minute gathering about some unspecified topic.

Twenty-Second Amendment edition.

A sad fact about the quality of American leadership and an indictment of Christians who ardently support it.

It turns out that goverment workers served a useful purpose after all.

Trump goes full on climate denier on a big stage.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Escalations of threats against the press.

A massive memorial service showed two divergent paths forward.

Time to search for Spock.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Reality is easier to ignore if you just pretend it isn’t there.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

Restricting those who report on the Pentagon.

People are weird.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Data? How quaint.