Outside the Beltway

Perfect timing, it would seem.

Are they bored? Delusional?

Faint praise edition.

Virginia’s governor is reportedly taking a shot at the 2024 Republican nomination.

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The courts can’t save us from ourselves.

New documents reveal the internal deliberations of the Court.

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

You know the drill.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

A new poll seems to show that. Be skeptical.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Some disturbing symbolism.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

A hypothetical spoiler for 2024? (Stress on “hypothetical”).

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The last original member of Lynryd Skynyrd has died.

The popular former Republican governor of Maryland has correctly assessed his chances.

Some Democrats are angry!

Another poll showing the same thing as the other polls.

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

A no-brainer that’s brainless.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Leftovers from last week and over the weekend.

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Some numbers from the Emerson poll.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

Some stories worth noting but not at great length.

Open access to party labels has consequences.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

Another reason so many get their information from biased outlets.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

The President will be the 2024 Democratic nominee. Get used to it.

He is so close.