Outside the Beltway

Republicans now face a stark choice.

The people who would most immediately be impacted by a war on the Korean peninsula don’t seem quite so concerned. Perhaps we should take a cue from them.

On Trump’s anger.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

White House insiders have renewed efforts to oust Presidential adviser Steve Bannon. Can they succeed?

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Chicago is joining the growing list of jurisdictions challenging the Administration’s policy on sanctuary cities.

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

President Trump was apparently directly involved in drafting a false statement regarding his son’s meeting with a lawyer tied to the Russian government.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

A Federal Judge has ruled against an elected official who blocked a constituent from accessing her Facebook page.

In another major change announced via Twitter, late yesterday President Trump announced he’d hired a new Chief of Staff, but changes at the staff level aren’t going to fix what’s really wrong with the Trump Administration.

According to initial estimates, the economy grew at faster pace in the second quarter than at the beginning of the year, but it was hardly anything to write home about.

Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.

“I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree. “

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

In a vote close enough to require the Vice-President to cast a tie-breaking vote, the Senate voted to proceed to debate on a health care bill even though nobody seems to know what bill they’ll ultimately be voting on.

President Trump delivered a wholly inappropriate political speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, but that should surprise nobody.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Reports are indicating that Donald Trump may be looking to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani.

A big but not unexpected personnel change at the White House.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

A good choice for an important position.

Is there anyone in the Trump Administration or family who hasn’t held undisclosed meetings with Russians?

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.

Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

Twitter users who have been blocked on the service by President Trump are suing him, claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

The revelations about Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with someone represented as being a Russian government official just keep getting worse.

Inching towards evidence of at least attempted collusion?

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

A report states that the meeting was set up on the predicate of information on the Clinton campaign.

Add another example of an undisclosed Russia-linked meeting and Team Trump.

After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Sarah Palin has filed a defamation suit against The New York Times alleging defamation in an Editorial linking her to the January 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. From the facts alleged, she appears to have a good case.

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

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving New Jersey’s challenge to a Federal law outlawing sports betting.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.