Outside the Beltway

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Revisiting an old post.

“The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’”

Why we are where we are.

The conspirator is living large while his victims go unpaid.

tl;dr: Trump is a nightmare client & nightmare clients don’t do well in criminal courts

The huckster is exploiting bankruptcy laws and the financial regulations to circumvent court judgments.

The social platform beloved of the intellectual class is about to undergo radical change.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

A few quick observations at the end of the week.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

The Proud Boys, Trump family, and Alex Jones all filmed documentaries of their actions leading up to January 6.

Musings about US politics and culture.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

As Democrats at the state level seek to limit the ability of parents to decline to vaccinate their children. they are facing resistance from Republican colleagues.

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

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

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night, Donald Trump took his show on the road where he continued his long-standing attacks on the press. Unfortunately, it’s a message that resonates with his supporters.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

Stephen Paddock’s crime was clearly terrorizing, and will impact the lives of survivors, families, first responders in many ways for a long time. Based on the currently available evidence, though, the Las Vegas shooting was not “terrorism.”

Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has resigned and will reportedly go to work for Donald Trump.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.