Outside the Beltway

Thinking out loud, as one does.

Making 2024 about 2021 and 1777.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

What does “complete victory” look like?

Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

Whataboutism about a visit to Whataburger (and other tales of obfuscation).

The Watergate conspirator, author, and talk show host was 90.

Some recommended reading.

The Republicans are putting on quite a show.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

Fascism is less about real politics, which is what makes it terrifying.

Not that one. The other one.

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

The esteemed biographer on his process.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.

The right-wing government in Warsaw has purged more than one-third of the members of the Polish Supreme Court in a crackdown on political opponents.

The Polish Government has amended a controversial law that sought to punish people for discussing the role that some Poles played in the Holocaust.

Donald Trump may or may not be racist himself, but he has most certainly exploited and helped widen racial divisions ever since bursting on the political scene in 2015.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Ben Carson is back and he’s saying some pretty dumb things again.

The 117 CIA officers who have died in our service should not be used to score cheap political points.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

Ben Carson announced today that he is skipping the next GOP debate and admitted that he does not see a viable path forward for his campaign. However, he didn’t formally withdraw from the race for the Republican nomination.

Republicans insist that uttering the words “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is somehow important in the fight against ISIS and other terror networks, but it is entirely unclear what doing so would accomplish.

As Ben Carson rises in the polls, it’s worth noting his many examples of having what can only be called a very odd relationship with truth and the basic facts of history.

Instead of eliminating the Department of Education, Ben Carson wants to give it a new, bizarre, and dangerous mission.

Ben Carson has no government experience, he has a history of saying things that don’t seem grounded in reality, and he lacks the resources for a credible campaign. And yet, he’s closing in on Donald Trump in the polls.

Finally.

Disturbing developments on the part of the Ukrainian government.

Ben Carson is running for President.