Outside the Beltway

Perfect timing, it would seem.

Virginia’s governor is reportedly taking a shot at the 2024 Republican nomination.

Can the fat man take down the elephant in the room?

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

“The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.”

I will admit, I didn’t see this coming.

A new poll seems to show that. Be skeptical.

Calls for violence have been widespread but are unlikely to be heeded.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

The would-be President is floundering as he tries to position himself.

A pending lawsuit seeks to settle those questions.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The popular former Republican governor of Maryland has correctly assessed his chances.

Some Democrats are angry!

Another poll showing the same thing as the other polls.

As tired as we may be of him, his nominating electorate appears ready for another round.

A no-brainer that’s brainless.

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Looking for historical analogs and looking at some numbers.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Leftovers from last week and over the weekend.

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

Some stories worth noting but not at great length.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

I went down the rabbit hole a tad…

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

Is this how the cult ends?

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

Some of the early reactions to the inevitable announcement tell the tale.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

The Needle is Broken

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

This is just playing crass political games with human beings.

Manipulating public opinion with dubious survey research.

Are 20 arrests worth a $1.2 million dollar investment?

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.