Outside the Beltway

SCOTUS continues to favor the executive over the legislature.

Some musings on the wrong lessons from a major global event.

Colombia’s President said the wrong thing and had his visa revoked.

Blowing up boats because they might have drugs on them is not justifiable, legally or morally.

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

What democratic backsliding looks like.

More on the conflict of alleged beliefs and who one follows.

Twenty-Second Amendment edition.

A sad fact about the quality of American leadership and an indictment of Christians who ardently support it.

It turns out that goverment workers served a useful purpose after all.

Sounds to me like he admitted to taking the bag of cash.

Escalations of threats against the press.

A massive memorial service showed two divergent paths forward.

Allegations of shutting down an investigation.

Reality is easier to ignore if you just pretend it isn’t there.

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

Restricting those who report on the Pentagon.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

Data? How quaint.

As well as the politics that have followed.

When empathy goes too far.

The FCC Chair went on a podcast and now Kimmel is on indefinite hiatus.

Cancel culture on steroids.

We’re not alone in dysfunctional politics.

He has a solution for homelessness.

Yes it was said. No the context doesn’t make it better.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

On politics, guns, and people killing people

Birds of a feather and all that.

To be fully human requires living with and in sometimes unresolvable contradictions

A shocking, but not surprising, event. I fear it’s a harbinger rather than an outlier.

More signs of flaws in the Trump economy.

Trump’s response to the Kirk assassination is to try and further divide us.

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

Can Democrats do anything?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

The Shadow Docket strikes again.

Another win for big donors.

Trump’s lack of focus may spare us the worst outcomes in this one instance.

Air Force honors for Ashli Babbitt.

If President Trump sends unwanted military force into American cities, the one thing we should not act is surprised.

A meme that is as muddled and authoritarian as the President who posted it

E-I-E-I-O

The August jobs report was not good.

Sand in the sheets of civil society.

It is unusual and a problem.