Outside the Beltway

Just lie about it.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

When the abnormal ceases to be.

A GOP member of Congress on deportations.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

My turn.

Unreality and sexual anxiety on display.

For want of an apostrophe . . .

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Staffers are in mutiny after owners killed plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

A modest disturbance in the force.

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

Lying about hurricanes and stoking ridiculous theories about weather control are the latest examples.

Some direct evidence of the effects.

Vance is no Mike Pence.

The Hit King is gone at 83.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Mark Robinson is the latest example.

This time: Aurora, CO.

Racism this explicit needs to be directly confronted

Donald Trump fared considerably worse against a cogent opponent.

A superstar athlete’s treatment by police raises troubling questions.

The election analyst is out on a limb with Trump.

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

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Yet another service disruption over rights fees calls attention to the issue.

An oft-told tale turns out to be bullshit.

J. D. Vance seems to have a cruel sense of humor and issues with women. Weird!

Another step closer to a regional war.

The sitting Vice President isn’t getting blamed for the economy.

A reflection the Trump campaign with helpf from James Baldwin

Trump on X.

Stoking anti-Semitism for political gain

The search giant lost a major court battle. What’s next?

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

Running for President as Vice President is uniquely challenging.

A development as shocking as it was inevitable.

What if 2024 was a “West Wing” episode?

The legendary comedian is gone at 94.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

Sometimes all we have is the choice of how we react to events.

The Replace Biden bandwagon continues rolling. Evidence is mounting that he needs to get on it.