Outside the Beltway

American military intervention in Venezuela would make the situation in that country worse, not better.

Michael Cohen, the President’s former lawyer and “fixer,” is set to deliver several bombshells in his testimony before Congress today.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer begins three days of testimony before Congress today. By the time he’s done, he could end up doing real damage to the Trump Presidency.

A 2016 Trump Campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against the President alleging that she was assaulted by Trump during the campaign.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

After two years of spitting in their faces, President Trump is finding it hard to get America’s European allies to come to his aid.

Breathless coverage of this freshman Congressman is getting tiresome.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

US policy is creating nonconstructive confrontation.

Rather than pulling completely out of Syria the United States will be leaving behind a token force of about 200 troops. This is a mistake.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

A new poll shows that most Americans believe the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision should remain the law on the land. Opinion on other abortion-related issues is more divided.

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

President Trump has selected Kelly Knight Craft, the current Ambassador to Canada, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

The House of Representatives has begin the process of challenging the President’s recent declaration of a ‘national emergency’ at the southern border.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be running for Senate despite urging from Republicans in Washington and back in Kansas,

Congressman Bradley Byrne has entered the race to challenge Doug Jones for the Senate from Alabama in 2020. This seat is likely to be a Republican pick-up regardless of who the Republicans nominate.

A North Carolina Congressional Election that was tainted by Absentee Ballot Fraud will be redone.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

Twenty days after we learned about racist yearbook photos and everything that followed from it, there’s been no action against any of Virginia’s top political leaders. Don’t expect to see it either.

Robert Mueller appears to be winding down his investigation and getting ready to submit a report to the Attorney General.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.

Polling continues to suggest that voters in Virginia are not nearly as concerned with the past behavior of state leaders as the political establishment might be.

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined the list of groups with lawsuits against the President’s declaration of a “national emergency” at the southern border.

Tennis great Martina Navratilova is facing criticism for raising questions about how sports handles the issue of transgender athletes competing within the gender they identify with. She shouldn’t be.

At this early stage of the Democratic race, it doesn’t appear that voters care very much about the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry.

For now,former President Obama is staying on the sidelines in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Roger Stone is being ordered to Court after an Instagram post that appears to be a direct threat against the Judge presiding over his criminal case.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?