Outside the Beltway

The Affordability Conundrum

· Saturday, December 27, 2025 · 25 comments

The fixes people want won’t help and those that will help, people don’t want.

Tuesday Tab Clearing

· Tuesday, December 16, 2025 · 5 comments

Greg Bovino’s Costuming Choices

· Monday, December 15, 2025 · 9 comments

It is hard to ignore the aesthetic he is invoking.

Monday Morning Tabs

· Monday, December 8, 2025 · 5 comments

Monday Tabs

· Monday, December 1, 2025 · 3 comments

Tabby Thursday

· Thursday, November 20, 2025 · 14 comments

Eight Democrats Break Ranks to End Filibuster

· Monday, November 10, 2025 · 54 comments

A lot of pain for . . . not much.

The Shutdown Nonsense Drags On

· Friday, November 7, 2025 · 38 comments

Democrats are digging in.

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Saturday Tabs

· Saturday, November 1, 2025 · 11 comments

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 3, 2020. Ford is underway conducting carrier qualifications. USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 3, 2020. Ford is underway conducting carrier qualifications.

We’re on the Verge of War With Venezuela (and Maybe Colombia)

· Saturday, October 25, 2025 · 27 comments

What could possibly go wrong?

The Internet of Everything

· Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 27 comments

The downside of our increasing connectivity.

Monday Morning Tabs

· Monday, October 20, 2025 · 14 comments

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Is The Resistance Futile?

· Saturday, October 18, 2025 · 17 comments

The second round of No Kings rallies will take place today. Will they matter?

President Donald Trump thanks the crowd after remarks at the Salute to America Celebration, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. President Donald Trump thanks the crowd after remarks at the Salute to America Celebration, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.

In Front of Our Noses: War Zones!

· Wednesday, October 8, 2025 · 25 comments

Hyperbole? Dishonesty? Distraction? Fantasy? Too much cable TV?

President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office after a joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025. President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office after a joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025.

Hamas Agrees To Release Hostages But Wants Further Negotiations

· Saturday, October 4, 2025 · 11 comments

A No masquerading as a Yes to Trump’s peace deal.

SaturTabs

· Saturday, September 27, 2025 · 10 comments

Comey Indicted

· Friday, September 26, 2025 · 22 comments

Serious abuses of power alongside an almost cartoonish set of behaviors.

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Zombie Democracy?

· Friday, September 26, 2025 · 39 comments

What democratic backsliding looks like.

TGI Tabs

· Friday, September 19, 2025 · 8 comments

Sunday Morning Tabs

· Sunday, September 14, 2025 · 10 comments

A Pile of Monday Morning Tabs

· Monday, September 8, 2025 · 13 comments

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Department of WAR

· Friday, September 5, 2025 · 23 comments

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

More on the Attack in the Caribbean

· Thursday, September 4, 2025 · 13 comments

It is unusual and a problem.

Lazy Sunday Tabs

· Sunday, August 31, 2025 · 10 comments

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Sunday Tabs

· Sunday, August 24, 2025 · 2 comments

Monday Morning Tabs

· Monday, August 18, 2025 · 9 comments

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Putin Summit Yields Nothing

· Saturday, August 16, 2025 · 17 comments

The artless deal.

Chainsaw Killers Don’t Care About Statistics

· Friday, August 15, 2025 · 8 comments

Nor does Benny Johnson.

President Donald Trump thanks the crowd after remarks at the Salute to America Celebration, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. President Donald Trump thanks the crowd after remarks at the Salute to America Celebration, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.

Bloodshed, Bedlam, Squalor and Worse

· Tuesday, August 12, 2025 · 30 comments

Authoritarianism is popular.

TGI Tabs!

· Friday, August 8, 2025 · 5 comments

Hot August Tabs

· Friday, August 1, 2025 · 14 comments

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France Recognizes Palestine

· Friday, July 25, 2025 · 42 comments

Responding to tragedy with farce.

Mid-Week Pile o’ Tabs

· Wednesday, July 16, 2025 · 55 comments

In Front of Our Noses: Wasteful Government

· Tuesday, July 15, 2025 · 11 comments

Destroying aid because they destroyed USAID.

Tabby Thursday

· Thursday, July 3, 2025 · 9 comments

Some Thoughts on the NYC Democratic Primary

· Monday, June 30, 2025 · 35 comments

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

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S&P 500 Hits a Record

· Friday, June 27, 2025 · 16 comments

After a bit of a Trump-induced detour.

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U.S. Bombs Three Iranian Nuke Sites

· Sunday, June 22, 2025 · 33 comments

The war is on.

In Front of Our Noses: Politicizing the Military

· Wednesday, June 11, 2025 · 13 comments

Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg.

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Where Americans Get Their News

· Wednesday, June 11, 2025 · 26 comments

The information bubble is real.

Musk Has Left the Building

· Saturday, May 24, 2025 · 13 comments

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

Friday Tabs

· Friday, May 23, 2025 · 9 comments

SunTabs

· Sunday, May 18, 2025 · 3 comments

Speaking of Human Rights

· Saturday, May 17, 2025 · 13 comments

What Trump and DOGE hath wrought.

On Age and Political Office

· Friday, May 16, 2025 · 47 comments

A return to the question of age limits for office.

The Case of the Afrikaners

· Wednesday, May 14, 2025 · 14 comments

What it tells us about race and the Trump administration.

Mother’s Day Tabs

· Sunday, May 11, 2025 · 10 comments

Tabby Tuesday

· Tuesday, May 6, 2025 · 25 comments

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The AI Is Taking Our Jobs!

· Wednesday, April 30, 2025 · 46 comments

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

Democrats Less Popular Than Trump

· Thursday, April 24, 2025 · 37 comments

The polls are showing a really weird dynamic.

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