Outside the Beltway

A Michigan jury believed the FBI created the crime.

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

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

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

We’re not getting Afghans—or even American citizens trapped there—out fast enough.

The President hit all the right notes.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Looking to Federalist 22.

It’s not just Red states that put up too many barriers.

Major is a good boy who hardly ever bites anybody.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

Some square pegs are being forced into some round holes for the sake of inclusion.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

Gridlock doesn’t mean government stops. It just shifts who is governing.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

A rather remarkable milestone in that it’s coming so late.

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A choice that’s both historic and unsurprising.

A completely unsurprising finding.

The President has hit rock bottom.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

The venerable apparel company is having a hard go of it.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

Another allegation of Biden misbehavior that is another category altogether.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

The presumptive Democratic nominee says, “They aren’t true. This never happened.”

The venerable youth organization has fallen on hard times.

What difference at this point does it make?

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

This timeline is just so weird.

A law review article written when the former was a student provides an interesting contrast.

After coming under attack from within his own party, former Vice-President Joe Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

So far Joe Biden has run a gaffe-free campaign. But how long can it last?

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump fears former Vice-President Joe Biden the most of all the Democrats currently running against him.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.