Outside the Beltway

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

Our premier intelligence agency will focus on the Western hemisphere.

A tragic but perhaps inevitable event.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Another severe deviation from our norms.

A surprising honor.

Fomenting fear, not demonstrating leadership.

The right call but a logistical nightmare.

It’s not known if they’re related.

Not to mention impotence.

Spoiler: tariff threats and other “one weird trick” approaches won’t work.

The Florida governor is among several names being floated to replace Pete Hegseth.

This time for Secretary of the Navy

Here we go again.

Stop me if you have heard this before, but he is unqualified for the job.

We have crossed Putin’s red line.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

With a guest appearance by Hitler.

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

Is Sinwar’s assassination an opening?

Another one bites the dust.

The legendary singer, songwriter, and actor is gone at 88.

Should military officers substitute their judgment for the Commander-in-Chief’s?

What we know a day later.

The Israeli military says they got their man after years of intelligence collection.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

My thoughts on what we know now.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

The election analyst is out on a limb with Trump.

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

Some additional (and longwinded) perspective.

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

A long overdue move.

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.