Outside the Beltway

Another name may be on the short list for Secretary of State.

Another month of solid but not spectacular jobs growth seems to guarantee that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

His actions illustration how well the EC process is institutionalized.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Neither President Obama nor Vice-President Biden will attend Fidel Castro’s funeral.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

An airline traveler wanted his fellow passengers to know that he was a supporter of the president-elect.

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

Debunked!

For Donald Trump, it appears that ignorance is bliss.

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

Democracy produces good rulers, right?  Sometimes.  What good democracies actually produce best is good losers. Let us then be grateful for gracious losers, for our losers no less than our winners carry forward the American experiment in self-rule.  

As America prepares for a Presidential transition, an old conflict with a history of turning dangerous rears its head.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

While it seems a strange choice at first blush, it’s a good one.

Most Americans wish Donald Trump would stop tweeting. Good luck with that.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

Calling it neo-fascist is not hyperbole.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

So what’s wrong with the Whitelash Backlash thesis?  Not everything, actually.  But plenty.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

President-Elect Donald Trump has signaled that his current wife and youngest child will continue to reside in their de-luxe apartment in the sky rather than move to the White House.

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

Mike Pence’s night at the theater included a message from the cast. Good for them.

If one believes the electoral college is awesome, one cannot make an argument from the position of “the wisdom of the Founders” nor from a viewpoint based on original intent.

Team of Rivals?

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions will become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. That’s not a good thing.

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

The real model for Trump’s team is neither Abraham Lincoln nor Andrew Jackson but The Simpson’s Mr. Burns with a room full of Waylon Smithers-types.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. But that’s not the standard.