Outside the Beltway

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

The President is getting hammered from all sides for stating the obvious.

An impasse over schedule flexibility could have widespread impact.

Is that right? If so, is it reasonable?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Are 20 arrests worth a $1.2 million dollar investment?

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

A new initiative aims to right decades-old wrongs.

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

Are we too regulated for our own good?

Two incumbents roared to victory despite his opposition.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Party leaders are treating an electoral defeat as inevitable.

An example of when better isn’t better.

Some of the other costs that come with exercising a constitutional right

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

World opinion has shifted even more against Russia. Will it matter?

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

Do you believe in miracles?

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Most people liked it more than I did.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

Not Mayberry. Not even close.

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

Some pundits have high standards.

It depends on how you do the math.

Apparently, getting her elected President is not a high enough priority in the Biden White House.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

Not every argument can be tested on a Pinocchio scale.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

A serial criminal murdered five and injured dozens.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Politicians gonna politician, but still…

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Working conditions rather than labor supply seems to be the issue.

Another example for the conversation.

Mayor Pete is being mocked for telling obvious truths.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

Too woke! Not woke enough!