Outside the Beltway

Job growth in February was far below estimates, but we did see some solid wage growth and other signs that we’re approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.”

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

The freshman Congresswoman is getting it from all sides.

Once again, President Trump gets taken for a sucker by the North Koreans.

Most Americans oppose the President’s use of a national emergency to get funding for his border wall, but don’t expect that to cause him to change his mind.

President Trump’s job approval numbers have recovered from the lows they hit in the wake of the government shutdown.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

He conjures the imperialist past with such comments (and he doesn’t even use the term correctly).

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

And a link to a worthwhile read.

In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Nancy Pelosi is tired of Democrats voting to please their constituents.

Happy Friday,

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

Economic growth slowed significantly in the fourth quarter of 2018 from where it had been earlier in the year. And it’s likely to slow down even more.

Five things I think I think after the hearings.