Outside the Beltway

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

The latest FNC poll has more good news for Biden.

New numbers show more consistency.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

Why roll with the facts when you can confuse your supporters with conspiracy theories?

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

Anonymous bullshit from the New York Post.

The platform decision is emblematic of a Trump-led party.

A stark contrast.

The Republican Party is now the mirror image of the totalitarian propagandists it used to hate.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

Or, more accurately, the president should not use false hope to try and bolster his political image.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

Ok, so what should change?

My latest for Defense One.

Joe Biden’s running mate will be highly scrutinized. What’s fair game?

A column is getting negative attention for all the wrong reasons

Joe Biden has either narrowed down his choice for running mate down to two women or he hasn’t.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Will we ever be satisfied?

An open Senate race is now much more likely to stay Republican.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

A world in which we’re all contractors is a dystopian utopia.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

We can’t punish every politician with a mental problem, but some are clearly unfit for office.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

Life comes at you fast.

It’s just not immediate.

The President does not like his poll numbers.

A majority of Americans of every sex, race, education, income, or region do the right thing. With one exception.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

Congress forgot to disestablish a Creek Reservation created by treaty in 1833 and 1856 when it made Oklahoma a state in 1909.

A result of the Trump rally?

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

I don’t see it.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

CNN has a lengthy, deeply reported piece on Trump’s phone calls to other heads of state.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.