Outside the Beltway

Jobs growth in August was slightly better than expected, but still nothing overly impressive.

Happy Friday.

The second day of questioning for Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a bit rockier than the first, but nothing happened that seriously threatens his eventual confirmation.

The tough guy actor best known for the “Smokey And The Bandit” movies has passed away at the age of 82.

Donald Trump is a bad, inept, and potentially dangerous President. That doesn’t mean that a ‘soft coup’ inside the White House is the answer to the problem he presents to our democratic republic.

British authorities have charged two members of Russian military intelligence in connection with a poisoning attack on British attack.

The first significant post-primary poll of the Florida Senate race shows a dead heat between Governor Rick Scott and Senator Bill Nelson.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

In an extraordinary anonymous Op-Ed, a senior White House official describes a White House in chaos.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

A new poll shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum with an early, but slim lead, over Congressman Ron DeSantis in the race for Florida’s Governor’s Mansion.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

Chicago won’t have Rahm Emanuel to kick around anymore.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has selected former Senator Jon Kyl to replace John McCain in the Senate.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

New polling seems to show a significant shift toward Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

An Oregon state agency is suggesting that Walmart’s decision to restrict arms sales to bar people under 21, but over 18, from being able to purchase firearms violates state law.

The confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh begin today, but the outcome seems foreordained.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

A good excuse to consider reform.

There’s no real plan and nobody appears to know what waits on the other side, but the United Kingdom continues to meander towards Brexit.

An occasional series makes a return.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

A Federal Judge in Texas has declined to grant a request to bring the DACA program to an end, but its days appear to be numbered unless Congress acts.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

The masturbator-harasser is doing stand-up again.

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

As the midterms get closer, the public’s perception of the President’s job performance is getting worse.

President Trump is alienating our allies and making friends with dictators, and the world is responding as you might expect they would.

Happy Friday!

In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.

California is taking a major step in Criminal Justice reform by eliminating cash bail.

Despite the evidence, the President thinks he did a great job handling a disaster in which nearly 3,000 American citizens died.

The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a candidate who lost the GOP primary for Senate cannot run as the nominee of another party due to the state’s “sore loser” law.

A new study concludes that the total death toll from Hurricane Maria was vastly higher than previously reported.

Less than twelve hours into the General Election campaign for Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis is already making mistakes.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

As expected, Rick Scott easily won the GOP nomination for Senate in Florida, setting up one of the most highly anticipated Senate races of the year.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

For the second time this year, a three-judge panel of Federal Judges has struck down North Carolina’s Congressional District map. The immediate question is what impact, if any, this will have on November’s election.

Throughout the War On Terror, John McCain stood out as a strong moral voice against the use of torture against prisoners. For that he deserves the thanks of a grateful nation.