Outside the Beltway

In President Trump’s mind, American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights are “sons of bitches” who should be fired for exercising their rights.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Donald Trump thinks the media doesn’t like his Twitter habit. In reality, they love it.

In Fox News Channel’s America, Donald Trump can do no wrong and Hillary Clinton is still a threat.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

An unusual, if not unexpected, mass firing at the Justice Department on Friday afternoon.

The Trump Administration is continuing, and indeed expanding, its war on a free press.

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

Good thing the world is a static, simple place…

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Even as it becomes more and more apparent that he cannot win the Democratic nomination for President, Bernie Sanders is not letting up on his rhetoric against the leadership of the party he claims he’ll support in November.

Yes you can Ben, yes you can.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul got a break today when CNN included him in the prime time debate on Tuesday even though he fell short of meeting the criteria.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

While it did draw 14 million viewers, last night’s CNBC debate had the smallest audience of any Presidential debate so far. That was probably a good thing for CNBC considering how bad the debate was.

As the House Select Benghazi Committee continues to question Hillary Clinton, a new poll finds that the vast majority of Americans view its work as political rather than part of an objective investigation.

Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

In an interview, Donald Trump reveals that when it comes to foreign policy he has no idea what he’s talking about.

Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.

President Obama gave an interesting and somewhat unusual interview to a podcaster late last week, but the media is obsessed over a single word.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.

Not surprisingly, last night’s announcement that there would be no state court indictment in the Michael Brown shooting led to violence and confrontations with police. That’s not going to solve any of the real problems that face Ferguson, or any other community in the United States.

President Obama has appointed an “Ebola Czar,” but it’s unclear why we need one when there are already people who are supposed to be in charge of the Ebola response.

It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.

Who knew?

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

The first seven men to be awarded the Medal of Honor for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received it posthumously. Clinton Romesha will be the fourth in a row that’s lived to meet the president.

Jake Tapper is moving to CNN, where he’ll host a daily show and run their political coverage.

On rare instances in Washington, reporters do their job and ask tough questions of political leaders. Rarer still, the leaders give good answers.

President Obama had some prominent liberal journalists over for coffee.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.