Outside the Beltway

When the abnormal ceases to be.

Thoughts that didn’t fit in my last post

To what degree is right wing media shaping Trump’s view of Harris?

Democrats desperate for a different nominee are falling in line as the President refuses to go.

Touting the accomplishments of the last two years isn’t working.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

A Manichean struggle between good and evil.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

Stories from the ongoing pandemic.

Same endless song, different verse.

I don’t see it.

We need a better vocabulary for treating the spectrum between rude and horrific.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Fox News Channel in general, and Fox And Friends in particular, have become nothing but a propaganda network for the White House and the President.

New York City’s Mayor ends a campaign that was going nowhere.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

California Senator Kamala Harris is set to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination later this month.

The 2020 campaign is already heating up, and California Senator Kamala Harris could be one of the first serious candidates for President to throw her hat in the ring.

The morning show co-hosts tied the knot at a secret ceremony at the National Archives.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

The man who knows all of Donald Trump’s financial secrets has been called to testify before the Grand Jury investigating Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

Paul Ryan won’t be running for re-election this year, opening up both a Congressional seat and a leadership spot.

As a general rule, Presidents are entitled to have a Cabinet and advisers he is comfortable with, but a Cabinet full of “yes men” is not ideal with any President, and certainly not with this one.

A new bombshell allegation in the Stormy Daniels affair.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Both #TrumpShutdown and #SchumerShutdown put the blame in the wrong place.

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

President Trump sinks even lower.

Sean Spicer now says he regrets the lies that defined his time at the White House.

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

Once again, Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to attack women, embarrass himself, and embarrass the nation he purports to represent.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

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

A Congressman was shot, and a staffer and security detail members injured, at a practice session for tomorrow’s Congressional baseball game.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

A legendary statesman has passed.

President Trump’s comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War reveal something about how he thinks, and it’s not good.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.