Outside the Beltway

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

But only the original books, not the Disney adaptations.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

An interesting but rather misleading report from a Biden Treasury official.

A really weird proposal to solve a problem that probably doesn’t exist.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Boldy going where Starfleet has gone before.

It’s still the best Thanksgiving television episode ever.

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a more detailed version of her ‘Medicare For All” plan late last week. It leaves much to be desired.

Contrary to the promises of December 2017, the Republican tax cuts are not paying for themselves. Instead, they are helping lead us to trillion-dollar deficits.

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.

Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.

As predicted, the Federal Budget Deficit has crossed the threshold back into the world of trillion-dollar deficits. This is all due to the hypocrisy of Republicans and so-called conservatives.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

The Federal Budget Deficit rose 27% in July, putting it on course for the $1 trillion by the end of September.

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

The Federal Budget Deficit passed the $700 Billion mark with three months still to go in the Fiscal Year.

The Congressional Budget Office assesses several reform proposals.

The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

The original ‘scandal’ was silly. The follow-up is sillier.

Do you want to get money out of politics? You need to get politics out of money.

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.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

Despite the government shutdown, employment growth in January was far above expectations.

A new study reveals that the Republican tax cut package passed at the end of 2017 has not had the economic impact the GOP claimed it would.

The economic impact from the just-concluded government shutdown was apparently quite substantial.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.

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

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed major reforms in Federal sentencing and related laws. As the name of the bill implies, it’s a first step, but a good first step.

The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

Rest in Peace and Excelsior, Stan Lee!

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

The Federal Budget Deficit is set to end the Fiscal Year close to $1 trillion, and to continue growing after that.

The National Debt has passed $21,000,000,000,000 for the first time in history just as the nation begins its return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits.

Harlan Ellison, who had a reputation for being as cantankerous as he was a great writer, has died at the age of 84.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

The first estimate of economic growth in the first three months of 2018 beat expectations slightly, but it doesn’t bode well for the immediate future.

Dueling data on civil service compensation belie the adage that you can’t choose your own facts.

We’re set to return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits, and Republicans won’t do a thing about it.