Outside the Beltway

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.

Despite appearing to have emerged from April’s election as the winner, Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to form a government. This means that Israel will have to hold new elections in September.

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

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.

Boris Johnson, who is currently the apparent frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, has been ordered to appear in court on charges he lied during the 2016 Brexit campaign.

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.

Despite opposition from the Catholic Church, or perhaps in rebellion against it, Irish voters overwhelmingly approved a new law liberalizing that nation’s divorce laws.

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.

Most of us define ourselves largely through our jobs. That’s increasingly a problem.

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

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

Late last week it appeared as if a 90-year-old veteran of the Korean War would be buried without anyone to say goodbye. Then the word got out, and thousands of people responded.

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

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

The pro-Brexit Brexit Party and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats both scored big wins in the United Kingdom’s E.U. elections, while the two major parties suffered big losses.

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been arrested on charges that he used his influence over the late Marvel Comics founder to divert funds and alienate Lee from his family in his final months of life.

The transatlantic rejection of elite consensus that began with Brexit continues.

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Bart Starr, who led the Green Bay Packers to five N.F.L. Championships in the pre-Super Bowl era and in Super Bowls I and II, has died at the age of 85.

A Virginia woman left unusual instructions for the Executor of her will, and it’s become something of a controversy.

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.

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

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.

Earlier this week, SpaceX deployed the first 60 satellites in a network that could result in Internet access from virtually anywhere in the world.

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

An author’s greatest nightmare unfolded on live radio.

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

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

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.

Theresa May has announced she is stepping down as leader of the Conservative Party as of June 7th, starting a process that will have her out of Downing Street withing the next two months or so.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” has been released from prison but the war in which he was captured goes merrily along.