Outside the Beltway

Mark Robinson is the latest example.

Harris appears to be getting a post-convention bounce while Trump and Vance stay classy.

So many open tabs, so little time.

Plus an observation on news coverage.

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

It’s time for transparency on the Republican Leader’s health.

Some of these have been open for a while…

The silliness of singling out tiny measures.

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

Carville, MTG, and hierarchy in America.

And if you’ll buy that, I’ll throw the Golden Gate in free.

Is this how the cult ends?

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Yet again, Mike Lindell show what a fraud he is.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

Sigh.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

Public opinion on impeachment has taken a rapid turn that should alarm the Trump White House.

Republican Bill Lee is coming under fire for continuing an annual tradition.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates focus on insurance companies and drug companies. But that’s not where the money is.

A weird takedown from within the #Resistance.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

The Speaker was dealt a winning hand and played it with the skill of a seasoned pro. But the outcome was all but inevitable.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.

As the shutdown goes on, the polls are getting worse for the President.

New polling clearly indicates that the President is losing the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown.

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

In an ordinary year with an ordinary candidate New Jersey should be a slam dunk for Democrats. This, however, is not an ordinary year.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Care to guess the demographic makeup of the county?

Initial polling on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court find the public more divided than they have been for other recent SCOTUS picks, but that’s unlikely to impact the fate of his nomination.

The unconscionable violation of norms in 2016 won’t apply in 2018; it’s a matter of power, not principle.

Convicted leaker Chelsea Manning lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland, to the surprise of nobody.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

Republicans are worried about 2018, and they’re even more worried that they have a President who is refusing to acknowledge political reality.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.