Outside the Beltway

After skipping such events in his first thirteen months in office, the President tried his hand at stand-up last night to mixed reviews.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s old.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly publicly defended the President’s call to a military widow yesterday, but he got several facts wrong in the process.

President Obama spoke out yesterday against his successor and the America he has created.

Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

Perhaps it’s time to consider getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely.

One of the legal giants in the Federal Judiciary has retired from the bench.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

Some Presidents knew how to respond to racism and hatred. The current President doesn’t.

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

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

More provocation from Pyongyang.

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.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

So far, there’s no sign that Donald Trump is having much of an impact on the economy.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

This year’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner will be missing one high-profile guest.

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.

Donald Trump’s initial job approval numbers are lower than any President since the EIsenhower Administration.

With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

Eliminating the department would mean parceling out most of its activities to other federal agencies, a sleight of hand maneuver that might create the appearance of smaller government but would disrupt the ordinary operations of the federal government. 

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Calling it neo-fascist is not hyperbole.

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions will become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. That’s not a good thing.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

The Federal Judge presiding over Dylann Roof’s murder trial suggested late last week that Roof may not presently be competent to stand trial. This does not mean that he’ll be set free, though.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.