Outside the Beltway

A lot of pain for . . . not much.

A minor, yet telling, example of the intellectual maturity of this administration.

As well as the politics that have followed.

On renaming commemorations.

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.