Outside the Beltway

…and I write a bit more than that.

The Nerd Prom chickens out.

It made history in many ways.

The retired 3-star National Guard officer is an unorthodox pick.

The inevitable happened, inevitably.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

The courts will decide whether we have a President or a King.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and both Roosevelts pushed the envelope, too!

A surprising honor.

The real crime is what’s legal.

I question the timing.

Abusing power to prevent the abuse of power?

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Stop me if you have heard this before, but he is unqualified for the job.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

The MAGA Congresswoman is Trump’s pick.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

Not a Red Wave but a Red Shift?

How that awful man won again.

A different take on our political realignment.

Each state sets its own election rules. That’s not a good thing.

Subtle demographic changes may have created a tipping point.

They won’t tell you who’s going to be President. They’re still useful.

The 45th President and the press, part a million.

The 39th President hits the century mark.

They have a preference but may not vote.

But it is all still close.

Some Democrats are unhappy Harris is touting the endorsement of the Cheneys.

Dubya takes cover.

An oft-told tale turns out to be bullshit.

It’s not 2019 anymore.

We live in interesting times.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Beyond politics, there’s culture.

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

The Democrats are in a good place heading into their convention.

The slide continues.

Why public attitudes are lagging real world performane.

Are we betraying the Founders?

A famed political forecaster doesn’t believe the polls.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

As the Silents and Boomers die off, their assets will be redistributed.

Suddenly, old voters are aligning Democrat and young ones Republican.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

A century-old tradition has gone by the wayside.