Outside the Beltway

Nine ideologies. Two parties.

Spoiler: the problem isn’t the vote-counting.

Boos and disruption ensue.

A play in three acts.

Congress is defying the President on Iran, Ukraine, the slush fund, and more.

The Dan Sullivans saga.

He’s getting tired of all the winning.

Judges ruled against his Kennedy Center renaming and “anti-weaponization fund” yesterday.

Great American State Fair Edition

It’s certainly looking that way.

Examples from TX and KY.

The U.S. hit several targets in Iran as negotiations for a peace deal continue.

The options are not good.

An epic finale.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Even as a lame duck, he still holds domination over the party.

Yes, that might be kissing noises you hear…

Looking ahead, hopefully with some purpose.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Now what?

It would all be just absurd if it didn’t matter so much.

Free speech is not always met with more speech.

A requiem for something lost.

A way out of the mess.

A gunman got off shots at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Don’t worry, those rises in prices are an illusion!

Pete’s prayer and Franklin Graham weighs in.

A great thing, precipitated by a questionable thing.

Undermining the professionalism of the officer corps.

Nineteen minutes. Zero answers.

Having set the region afire, he’s prepared to let others clean up the mess.

Now an airport.

The longest government “shutdown” in history has no end in sight.

Ready or not, the campaign has begun.

Trump has been basing disaster funding to states based on local partisan control.

Truly unbelievable praise for Dear Leader.

There’s still no strategy.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

So much winning.

Democrat wins special election to represent Trump’s home district in Florida.

How it started and how it’s going.

STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, naturally.

Teleporting Trump Officials

The Art of the Deal in action.

Why not both?

That’s not how any of this works.

The regime is not a -changin’.

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?