Outside the Beltway

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

President Trump is basically saying he does not care if ISIS prisoners return to Europe to commit terror attacks.

Trump makes a particularly dumb comment about our alliance with Syrian Kurds.

Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war.

Sigh.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

Barry Goldwater saw what the so-called “religious right” would become decades ago.

After a heart attack that has kept him out of the campaign for a week, it may be time for Bernie Sanders to pack it in.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

Something fun to cleanse the palate.

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

Public opinion on impeachment has shifted rapidly to the point where a majority of Americans support an impeachment inquiry and support for removal is growing as well.

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

President Trump’s latest Syria move is coming under heavy criticism even from fellow Republicans.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is behind in the polls but still able to stay alive financially.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

As the Brexit deadline approaches, Boris Johnson’s options dwindle and a hard Brexit becomes more likely.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

The Supreme Court returns to work today with a significant number of high-profile cases on its docket.

With the ongoing Ukraine scandal having an impact in Washington and Kyiv, the biggest winner is in Moscow.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

The evidence piles up.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

A very successful fundraising quarter for Senator Elizabeth Warren caps off a quarter that has seen her surge in the race for the 2020 nomination.

After a week of silence, Bernie Sanders campaign confirm that he had a heart attack earlier this week.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

A somewhat disappointing jobs report for September.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

I was a guest on the Challenging Opinions podcast.

The next Democratic Debate will have the most people on stage at one time of any debate so far.

The norms of social discourse are rapidly changing in the #MeToo era.

Joe Biden reported a mostly successful fundraising quarter for the period that ended September 30th,

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.