Outside the Beltway

His VP and cabinet were not polled.

A dumb way to choose candidates? Or the dumbest way?

A little self-promotion.

Only 32 of 435 House seats are competitive.

Plus: Pete visits the Hill.

Disentangling the two is challenging, if not impossible.

What happens at the 60 day mark of the Iran War? Nothing.

Partisan gerrymandering just got a bit easier.

It would all be just absurd if it didn’t matter so much.

Free speech is not always met with more speech.

Some context.

It is all around us.

A gunman got off shots at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

It’s their own damn fault.

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

Also contempt for citizens.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

The state of being too big to care.

We have a problem, but we aren’t even trying to address it.

Competence, ethics, and good vibes all around!

Returning to a debate from the comment section.

A warning from the Commander-in-Chief to the crazy bastards.

Don’t worry, those rises in prices are an illusion!

Versus strait rhetoric.

Pete’s prayer and Franklin Graham weighs in.

Because sometimes you have to laugh, lest ye cry.

Also, this Just In: WWII Was 80 Years Ago

We can forgive the raping, graft, election stealing, and warmongering. But this goes too far!

Trump attacks the Pope on Truth Social, You know, as one does.

The flailing president.

Preemption?

New inflation and consumer confidence numbers.

Some empirical insights into American partisan politics.

…love is in the air.

Another example.

With pundits like this, no wonder we have the problems we have.

Deportation uber alles.

Simpler times.

Praise be to Allah, you crazy bastards!

Xenophobia’s cruel wages.

A podcast recommendation.

Only Nixon has been lower.

Better than expected jobs report amid other less positive news.

Undermining the professionalism of the officer corps.

It’s a real mystery…

Trump issues an EO; now we wait on the legal challenges.

Now an airport.

The longest government “shutdown” in history has no end in sight.