Outside the Beltway

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

Hours before departing the United States for a pomp and circumstance filled State Visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump sticks his foot in his mouth.

Trump’s negotiation style edition.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ruled out what would essentially be a quixotic primary challenge against President Trump.

Either Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, or he thinks his supporters are dumb.

The Navy is confirming that it did receive a request from the White House to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” during the President’s visit to an American base in Japan.

Just a day before he is scheduled to arrive in the city for a State Visit, London’s Mayor is denouncing President Trump.

A new report indicates that Russian social media trolls are involved in spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the United States and elsewhere.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Bernie Sanders supporters are a wee bit sensitive.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

It’s been just about fifteen months since President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Not surprisingly, those tariffs have not had the effect the President claimed they would.

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

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

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.

A thinly-sourced but utterly believable tale of evil.

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.

Having exhausted their word list and the competitors, the contest ended with octo-champs.

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.

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.