Outside the Beltway

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

This administration isn’t debating history. It’s distorting it for its own narrow purposes methodically. And predictably.

Michael Cohen once threatened The Onion because it published a satirical article about Donald Trump.

The battle over Confederate statues that was resurrected by the violence in Charlottesville is off the front pages, but that doesn’t mean it’s over quite yet.

President Trump once again revealed his true self at a press conference yesterday.

The Confederate Flag needs to be removed from official places of honor, but do we really need to worry about reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard?

It was a close vote, but Virginia’s Republican leaders did the smart thing yesterday in picking a primary over a convention in 2016.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

At least one person wonders why the US Army honors Confederate generals.

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

The Air Force has suspended a course that teaches nuclear officers that Christian ethics permit them to do their job.

It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.