Outside the Beltway

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

Some reports are indicating that Joe Biden’s campaign is considering making a pledge that he would only serve a single term if elected. This would be a mistake.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

Especially Senate inaction.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.

And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

Former President Obama has been largely quiet about the race for the Democratic nomination, but that may not last.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Given the times we live in, you may be tempted to argue about politics tomorrow. Here’s my advice — don’t do it.

President Trump has put his son-in-law in charge of building the border wall.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

New revelations punch a big hole in Republican defenses of the President.

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

The House Judiciary Committee is ready to begin its phase of impeachment hearings after Thanksgiving.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

Late yesterday, the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on an order that would give Congress access to the President’s financial documents.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.