Outside the Beltway

President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden will reportedly decide on whether or not he’ll be entering the race for President in the near future.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.

Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.

For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.

President Trump is offering to change his ‘concrete wall’ with a ‘steel barrier’ in what he apparently things is a compromise.

President Trump is making clear that he doesn’t care how his shutdown is impacting Federal workers.

With Pat Roberts retiring, Kansas Republicans are reportedly looking at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to succeed him.

As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

I am a sucker for a good People’s Front of Judea riff.

Herb Kelleher, who helped found an airline that revolutionized the industry thanks to his unconventional choices, has died at the age of 87.

Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.

As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is the second Republican to announce his retirement, but his seat should remain safely red.

Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

As the shutdown drags on, Mitch McConnell finds himself facing pressure from the White House and from members of his own caucus.

December’s Jobs Report blew past expectations to show more than 300,000 jobs created.

In a late first-day session, Congress passed a series of bills designed to reopen most of the government, but they’re already ‘dead on arrival’ in the Senate.

Happy Friday, Happy New Year!

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

Three and a half years after its flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has reached the furthest distant object ever visited by a man-made craft.

One-half of a pop music icon in the 70’s, the Captain has passed away.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

With Democrats set to take control of Congress today, a resolution to the shutdown doesn’t appear to be any closer.

It is sincerely disturbing that the POTUS has this level of understanding of history and foreign policy.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

Before even taking office, Mitt Romney is taking on the President. It’s a good sign, but we’ll see what it leads to.

The President is blaming Democrats for the fact that so many of his Ambassadors have not been confirmed. The truth, of course, is quite the opposite.

The longer the shutdown goes on, the wider its impact is likely to become.

President Trump began 2019 pretty much how he ended 2018, with irrational rants on Twitter.

That’s not how it works.

Milestones and memories from one in the books. Happy New Year to you all.

Democrats have unveiled what appears as if it will be their first effort to end the shutdown, but there are already signs Republicans will reject it.

President Trump is now threatening to close the border if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.

Begun, the 2020 campaign has.

As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

California is set up throw a huge curve ball into the 2020 Presidential nomination fight.

New polling indicates that President Trump is getting the blame for the ongoing government shutdown.

The TPP is about to go into effect without the US.

My mother has passed, aged 75 years.

Happy Friday.

I’m not saying it was aliens, but……..

A new law set to take effect in Utah before the New Year will lower the BAC limit for drunk driving by 40% to .05. Will the rest of the nation follow?

Congress will not be returning to Washington until some time next week. Thus guaranteeing that this shutdown will last at least through January 3rd.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.