Outside the Beltway

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Getting an impartial jury in an internationally-famous case is next to impossible.

The law is out of sync with modern realities.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

An internal review is calling for America’s business paper to diversify its appeal.

An interesting but uneven debate.

Overruling every case President Trump was involved in is getting silly.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

Judges are pressuring prosecutors to strike deals, most of which will be for misdemeanors.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.

An interesting blast from the past.

Debunking urban legends and Internet rumors is harder than it used to be.

The man most famous for getting screwed out of a Supreme Court seat has a more interesting backstory.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

Historical precedents fall apart when we’re in a truly unprecedented time.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

So. Much. Winning.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.

There’s a word for people who use outrageous violence to terrorize.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

It’s finally officially official.

We’ve shouldn’t be surprised we’ve arrived at this destination.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

Social media makes the line much harder to draw.

His tantrum stopped checks over the weekend but Congress called his bluff.

A very low-spoilers review.

The President of the United States is an existential threat to the Republic.

The Georgia governor and his family are under attack because he did his job.

Peaceful protests were once again followed by nighttime clashes.

A sad and disturbing report from a reliable source.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

While the authoritarian threat recedes, the fascist threat remains.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

The inevitable happened, as extremist organizations descended on DC.

“Now this campaign is over, what is the will of the people? What is our mandate?”