Outside the Beltway

The star of “Night Court” and “Dave’s World” is gone.

Running for and being President of the United States has been very lucrative for the family business.

The Editorial Board of the Newspaper of Record urges Congressional Republicans to steady themselves for a constitutional crisis.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

President Trump is on the attack against James Comey as the former F.B.I. Director begins his book tour.

The Director of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus,’ both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has died at the age of 86.

Donald Trump could have more to worry about regarding the investigation of Michael Cohen than he does regarding the Mueller investigation.

Hang on, the ride on the Trump Train is about to get a lot bumpier.

Out of the blue, President Trump plans to pardon Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, but the move seems to have more to do with James Comey than it does Scooter Libby.

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

Stormy Daniels is talking to the Feds

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

Not surprisingly, a joint Senate Committee failed to really lay a glove on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at yesterday’s hearing.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

The United States has several options in Syria. None of them are good and one of them would be disastrous.

President Trump isn’t reacting well to the raid on his attorney’s office.

In a move apparently connected to the Stormy Daniels affair, Federal authorities have raided the office of longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

Republicans are raising the fear of impeachment to motivate a base that could become disaffected heading into November.

Trump’s tariff plan isn’t going over well in farm country, and that could cause problems for the GOP in November.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

March’s Jobs Report fell far short of expectations.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

President Trump is talking about pulling American troops out of Syria, but his own White House is contradicting him.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

He cooperated with the FBI. He was arrested by ICE.

Not an Easter song, exactly, but certainly evocative of some of the holiday’s major themes.

A Federal Judge In New York City is allowing a lawsuit against the President’s DACA order to go forward, and he based part of his ruling on the President’s own rhetoric.

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.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

As suspected, Cynthia Nixon is not shaping up to be much of a challenge for Andrew Cuomo.

A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.

Descriptions of Robby Jackson as “Trump’s personal physician” mischaracterize his qualifications for the job.

John Dowd allegedly raised the possibility while the Mueller investigation was closing in on the two presidential advisors.

Much of Atlanta city government has been forced to rely on pen and paper this week thanks to a Ransomware attack.

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

Critics warn this move would lead to a drastic undercount of Hispanic voters, impacting Congressional districting, federal programs, and more.

If the polls are any indication, Democrats may fall short in their bid to take back the House in November.

The United States has joined Great Britain and much of Europe in retaliating against Russia for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy on British soil.

Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.

Not surprisingly, John Bolton has some links to particularly shady people on the right.