Outside the Beltway

His column in the Houston Chronicle fails to impress.

Don’t offend the Lt. Governor in Texas.

A deep tradition rightly under scrutiny.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

A Representative’s slip of the tongue and the ensuing debate.

Those who refuse to learn about the past often perpetuate its mistakes.

It really is rife with problems.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

America survived a civil war and the turmoil of the 1960s. Can we rebound again?

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

You can’t fire me, I quit!

A reminder that all choices are political to one degree or the other.

Remembering the past; living the future.

All states but one receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes.

It’s becoming just another day off work!

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

Car manufacturers are slowly removing an old format.

The “We Were Soldiers Once” author and his wife have been honored.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

Turns out that costing your employer nearly a billion dollars isn’t good for your career.

We’re getting weird policies almost nobody is asking for.

It’s time for her to step down.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles sparks a thought.

An outrageous political stunt.

It’s time to ban a growing and dangerous practice.

The questionable ethics of living a lavish lifestyle based on high office.

When winning is the only acceptable outcome.

A key pathway to success for low-income citizens isn’t working.

Partisans gonna partisan.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Some disturbing symbolism.

The huckster is exploiting bankruptcy laws and the financial regulations to circumvent court judgments.

The left and right are attacking basic rights. But not equally.

“Classical liberals” really need to rediscover self examination

Because I actually think its important.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

Eric Adams is begging for the Federal Government for relief.

Open access to party labels has consequences.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.