Outside the Beltway

On security details and conflicting MAGA views about the danger of rhetoric

This time: Aurora, CO.

And more silence from our MAGA aligned commenters

Trump’s Anti-Black, Anti-Haitian Propaganda Is Harming Real People

Thoughts that didn’t fit in my last post

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

Sometimes the bird gives you the bird

Cruelty with compound interest.

A reasonable ruling with horrible consequences.

A morally right but politically fraught move.

The fine line between xenophobia and patriotism.

A desperate measure for a desperate problem.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

Truly foreign language edition.

A literal Mexican stand-off.

A misleading survey result.

Billions for a wall plus a likely showdown with the feds.

Shocking if unsurprising poll results.

Those seeking to escape the global south are facing resistance from DC to London to Paris.

A bureaucratic nightmare.

Mostly a policy lament.

A modest regulatory change may have a big impact.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

It’s the spirit of the season.

They’re not sending their best people.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

And a reminder about Bannon’s wall grift.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

A splendid idea but why stop there?

Political theater on the southern border.

Two April Fool’s Day orders are no joke. And they’re apparently causing confusion.

The governor of Texas vows to finish what Trump started.

Whataboutism about a visit to Whataburger (and other tales of obfuscation).

The southern one.

The law and justice are frequently not the same thing.

President Biden has a second chance to do the right thing.

Stenography is not journalism.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

A change to the language is being proposed as part of a sweeping immigration overhaul.

Every illegal immigrant would have a path to citizenship.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

Donald Trump would be a more effective and dangerous President if he and his team were more competent.

More evidence that walls don’t work as well as claimed.