Outside the Beltway

The State Department will be pressing our closest allies to control their borders.

What could possibly go wrong?

A massive memorial service showed two divergent paths forward.

Birds of a feather and all that.

Who needs due process when you have drones?

A very different way to run a railroad.

What? Retaliation from Iran?

The war is on.

Whatever that means.

I question the timing.

This time: Chinese students.

A massive purge ahead of the long weekend.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

It’s good to be king.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

All of 47’s controversial nominees have been confirmed. Save one.

Really, a older, more imperialistic one.

Willingness to lie is now a requirement for senior intelligence and law enforcement posts.

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

This would include US citizens.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

Agencies are quickly seeking to comply with the President’s order.

Normal transition . . . and potential red flags.

Nunes and Grinell.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

When the abnormal ceases to be.

Of leopards and faces.

There is no such thing as “the perfect candidate.”

Trump’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

On hacks and different treatment for Clinton and Trump.

The anti-DEI party is suddenly really concerned about identity

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

Is all diversity created equal?

Part the millionth.

Rubio reportedly wants the gig.

A collection I started but didn’t fully finish.

Sorry, Senator Rubio.

The Senate is voting one-by-one in the face of the Tuberville hold on top nominees.

The inmates are running the asylum.

A perennial fantasy has a new standard bearer.

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The fight over changing the clock twice a year continues.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

Adam Laxalt’s big lead is slowly erodiing.