Outside the Beltway

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

Kamala Harris is trying to jump-start her Presidential campaign with an idea for a new law, but it’s probably unconstitutional and would never get through Congress.

Perhaps NRO’s Charles W. Cooke needs to read the report (and do a better job of putting Mueller’s statements in context).

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

New polling shows support for abortion rights rising amid a plethora of new laws aimed at striking down Roe v. Wade

I continue to be opposed to impeachment of the President, but I’m slowly moving in that direction thanks primary to the Administration’s own actions.

Yesterday’s press event with Robert Mueller underscores the importance of congressional testimony.

Quietly, Elizabeth Warren has been campaigning and putting out policy proposals while also appearing to gain ground on her closest rival, Bernie Sanders.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

The party’s presidential wannabes have until September 12 to demonstrate a pulse.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash doubled down on his assertion that the Attorney General was deliberately misleading Congress and the American public.

For the first time since being appointed Special Counsel, Robert Mueller spoke to the media regarding his report on the Russia investigation. The news was not good for the President.

The Supreme Court let a ruling against students opposed to a school district policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity stand.

The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.

The Democratic frontrunner is being wrongly blamed for an explosion in the prison population.

Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.

Hypocritical? Sure. Surprising? No.

Some reports are saying that Roy Moore will run for the GOP nomination for Senate again in 2020.

Justin Amash’s call for impeachment of the President, and the Republican Party’s reaction to it, is telling us a lot about the current state of the GOP.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

President Trump says he wants to see men back on the Moon by 2024, but NASA thinks it’s going to take longer than that.

Do you want to get money out of politics? You need to get politics out of money.

Making up a Trump quote just gives cover to the real ones.

Let’s look at the Mueller Report, shall we?

This year’s graduating class at West Point includes a record number of African-American women.

President Trump is in Japan, and while there is is dismissing the seriousness of new North Korean missile tests that threaten Japan.

A Federal Judge in Mississippi has blocked Mississippi’s law that purports to ban abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat.

Does the House have an obligation to proceed with impeachment?

The cost of Trump’s trade policies are well beyond the cost of soy beans.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s patently unconstitutional abortion law.

There are many things to dislike about the Democratic socialist from Vermont. Hypocrisy isn’t among them.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

No, abolishing the EC would not turn farmers into serfs.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash is the lone Republican voice speaking out against the President, and he’s making a strong case for his position in favor of impeachment.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

So good. So easy to win.

An independent review of the racist photo on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook was unsurprisingly inconclusive.

Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for Stormy Daniels who briefly flirted with the idea of running for President, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and other charges, some of them in connection with his representation of Daniels herself.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

New York has passed a law that would allow Congress to obtain copies of the President’s New York State tax returns.

President Trump’s stonewalling strategy suffered another legal setback in New York City yesterday.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin punted once again on the question of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, making clear that any change that does occur won’t happen until after Donald Trump is out of office.

A new poll shows that roughly two-thirds of Americans, including a large number of Republicans, do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

The Toddler-in-Chief has issued an ultimatum.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.