Outside the Beltway

It’s that time again.

Checking in after an extended absence.

Our missing front-pager has Tweeted.

The mid-week edition.

Howdy, folks. I’m Butch Bracknell.

If it’s Sunday night . . .

Let us know if anything’s broken.

Our colleague hopes to make his return soon.

The mid-week edition.

Our new bi-weekly tradition continues.

It’s that time again.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

Our most prolific front-pager hasn’t posted in two weeks. Readers are beginning to ask questions.

So, what do you want to talk about?

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

Deny them the pleasure of an angry reaction, and they’ll probably leave you alone.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

The HUD Secretary’s practice of treating Friday as a light-duty day is just fine by me.

Congrats to Dave Schuler on his blogiversary.

A mystery within a mystery . . .

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

Once again, Rudy Giuliani is contradicting his client.

Ann Althouse hits a blogging anniversary.

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

President Trump tried to get into the Christmas spirit last night. He failed.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

The scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

Trump has selected current Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff, but that’s unlikely to change how the West Wing operates.

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

Now that’s a lot of beef.

Apparently, this is a thing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Donald Trump is engaging in another round of baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.