Outside the Beltway

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Her price to sign on to the Inflation Reduction Act was, well, odd.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Sometimes people just change jobs.

See is paying the price for her defense of democracy.

Ruy Teixeira finds that Hispanics aren’t yet woke.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

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

Grifting, all the way down.

The convicted criminal has been released pending appeal.

We can only hope.

He’s tanned. He’s rested. Is he ready?

A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

A woman who declared “Civil War is coming” and “they have to kill me” has asked for and received leniency.

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

This time: the Alaska GOP.

And linkages to broader US politics.

Brought to you by the son of Moon.

A podcast recommendation.

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

Our insistence on relying on an 18th Century understanding of electoral systems is our ongoing bane (if one values representative government).

Yet another reminder about pathologies of US democracy.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

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

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

Barr finds no fraud.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

I don’t see it.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Kentucky teenager alleging he had been defamed by the coverage of his confrontation with a Native American man in January.

Donald Trump has endorsed a proposal by a Republican Senator to ban flag burning.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.