Outside the Beltway

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

An absurd extension of the fight over abortion.

The legendary football player and coach is gone at 77.

The author of “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment,” and so many more great novels is gone at 84.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

A country music legend is yet another victim of COVID.

A legendary newsman has passed.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

Another police shooting of an innocent African-American. This time in Fort Worth, Texas.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of ,murder in the death of Botham Jean, an innocent man who was murdered for the “crime” of being in his own apartment.

The independent who upended the 1992 Presidential race has passed.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Former Dallas police office Amber Guyger has been charged with murder in connection with the September shooting of Botham Jean in his own apartment.

Just when I thought political humor was dead.

A Federal Judge in Texas has ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is barred by Federal Law. Legally speaking, this is a tenuous argument at best.

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

A horrific night in Dallas.

In response to questions from reporters, Donald Trump suggested that Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth could pose problems for the GOP if Cruz won the party’s nomination.

A Dallas man was kicked off a flight home from New York City because he had unknowingly cut off a flight crew member while going through a revolving door. This seems like a case of discretion gone way too far.

A Texas 9th Grader named Ahmed Mohammed was arrested because school officials and police refused to believe that the clock he built wasn’t a bomb.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to be looking for that elusive second act in American politics.

After an avalanche of negative commentary, the Governors of New York and New Jersey have modified their policy regarding quarantining people returning from west Africa.

The first person to be quarantined under the new policy announced by New York and New Jersey is raising concerns about the way she was treated, and whether the policy is even the right idea.

A heartwarming story. But why don’t minor league coaches have insurance?

If something is going to be done about an out of control National Security State, it’ll be because the American people demand it.

Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

Long suffering fans of the Dallas Cowboys, including myself and Steven Taylor, have a love-hate relationship with owner-general manager Jerry Jones. cowb

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

So what was it: taken out of context or written by someone else?

Rick Perry’s vision of capitalism doesn’t exactly comply with what Adam Smith had in mind.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.

Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News is a must-read for NFL fans, always offering sharp insights into the game garnered over decades of experience. But, like anyone else, he can develop silly theories from anecdotal evidence.

Would troops to Mexico help in the drug war?