Outside the Beltway

Cancel culture on steroids.

Former VPs get only six months of protection?!

Authoritarianism is popular.

The optics are not good.

Force to create compliance should not be supported or excused. And yet…

The crime: trying to ask DHS Secretary Noem a question at a press conference in a federal building.

It made history in many ways.

And so it begins.

That’s the vibe from Elon and Tucker.

On security details and conflicting MAGA views about the danger of rhetoric

The would-be gunman was captured before he could get off a shot.

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

An oft-told tale turns out to be bullshit.

Things may well get ugly regardless of the outcome of November’s election.

Five minutes is an eternity in the current information environment.

Did Trump’s stoic reaction win him the election?

A shocking if perhaps unsurprising development.

Could Thursday’s match-up shake up the race?

A century-old tradition has gone by the wayside.

A high-stakes move.

“Dog bites man” isn’t news. Unless it’s the President’s dog.

It has begun.

And so it begins?

The Manhattan DA could move as early as next week.

The investigation produced mounds of evidence. Will it matter?

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Sigh.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

It’s been more of a reading than writing morning.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Did Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony change anything?

You’re goddamn right he did.

Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.

Right wing protestors are expected to attempt to create (more) gridlock in the capitol later today.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

That President-elect Biden is shaking up his protective detail isn’t unusual. The reason, however, is.

A rather remarkable milestone in that it’s coming so late.

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

The world’s worst COVID manager is now the world’s worst COVID patient.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.