Outside the Beltway

An indefensible choice.

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

It’s been around for a very long time.

He’s more than just a kook.

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

A longstanding precedent may be in jeopardy.

It’s a relative thing.

The inevitable is all but official.

A breakdown of new survey data.

The four-team Playoff will go out making a lot of folks mad.

The serial fabulist becomes an ignominious footnote.

And, not surprisingly, about parties.

The Gulf and Western singer, songwriter, and mogul has died at 76.

The leader of The Band is gone at 80.

A new book looks at the confluence of geography and disadvantage.

Permanent felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional.

An appropriate step.

Turning good deeds into dirty politics.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

The Eurozone is falling further behind the United States.

You can’t fire me, I quit!

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

They join DC and San Francisco.

When prejudice overrides simple humanity.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

It turns out that the candy flavored booze at the grocery store isn’t even bourbon.

My (apparently) annual reflections on “The content of their character” day

“You can’t be against everything.”

We can’t find enough people to treat cows, pigs, and horses.

A one-of-a-kind coach is gone far too soon.

A member of the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class and the most recent Country Music Hall of Fame class is gone at 87.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

A thought inspired by the PA Senate race.

31 of the 35 Senate races next month are noncompetititve.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

The agency says a 1986 law overrides state restrictions.

It’s been more of a reading than writing morning.

We live in a bizarre timeline.

A comparison of the two texts.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

It’s not all about Trump.

The laying out of the case begins.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Oklahoma’s near-total ban is part of a larger trend.