Outside the Beltway

The people who believe there is a ‘War On Christmas” tend to be the same ones who hold to the largely false idea that their religious beliefs are under assault due to a “culture war.”

Donald Trump has won Politifact’s ‘Lie Of The Year’ because, well, he’s told so many things that are utterly and provably false.

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

You may not be aware, but your local Starbucks is the new front in the ‘War On Christmas.’

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Keith Collins and Nikhil Sonnad provide strong evidence that the “sequel” to Harper Lee’s classic novel was merely a bad first draft.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not running for President, and she is unlikely to change her mind on that. Nonetheless, the speculation that she is will continue for some time to come because it suits her interests and the interests of others.

Even innocent interactions with women in public can amount to harassment. Where should we draw the line?

The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.

Facts are stubborn things.

The Worldwide Leader has a conflict of interest. But it handled it correctly in this case.

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.

A victory for the GOP Establishment in Georgia.

Committing a crime is bad enough, committing a stupid crime in the dumbest way possible is orders of magnitude bad.

Shutting down rational debate one meme at a time.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

A commonly cited statistic in support of the “equal pay” argument does not stand up to scrutiny.

Rand Paul seems to think a 15 year old scandal is relevant to the 2016 Presidential race.

There are some signs that there may be room to strike a deal on the extension of unemployment benefits, but it’s likely to require some drama on Capitol Hill before it happens.

Once again, a poll shows that large numbers of Americans, and most Americans, reject Evolution via Natural Selection as the explanation for humanity’s origin. How do we explain that?

“Reality” TV star says something dumb about gay people, gets suspended, usual pointless outrage ensues.

The Fox News Channel created “War On Christmas” officially entered the absurd zone last week.

Irony is officially dead.

It’s the return of the most absurd meme of all time.

Congressional Democrats are not very pleased with the White House right now.

The news that Obama aides discussed a change to the 2012 ticket is part of the latest Halperin/Heilemann campaign history.

A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.

What possible value would it have almost four decades after the fact that justifies expending not inconsiderable taxpayer resources?

Why won’t the “women don’t get pregnant from rape” meme die?

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.