Outside the Beltway

USA! USA! USA!

Flooding the zone saps his opponent’s attention, but also his White House’s.

Sad and strange circumstances have forced the Democratic party to become the conservative party now. It’s important to remind ourselves of what is good in our lives and what is worth defending. 

It “literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

“Protect and Serve” is just a slogan, not a guarantee.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

Some tabs plus some tabs equals some tabs.

Thirteen Marines and dozens of Afghan civilians are dead in a much-anticipated attack.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

All the deaths are fit to print.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

Once again, President Trump can’t help but make something meant to recognize real American heroes all about himself.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

The inventor of New Journalism has died of unknown causes.

White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly publicly defended the President’s call to a military widow yesterday, but he got several facts wrong in the process.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

A horrific night in Dallas.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

To the surprise of many, Russia’s President announced that Russia would begin winding down its six month old intervention in Syria.