Outside the Beltway

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Tell us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants without telling us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Some 4500 tip line reports were simply turned over to the White House and not investigated further.

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

She’s almost certainly going to lose her House seat. Can she get a promotion?

With all of California’s problems solved, Gavin Newsome is doing stunts.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

Elon backs out.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

She? Xe? Xem? Let’s call the whole thing off.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

Mild spoilers ahead.

Shameless (but not surprising).

It’s not all about Trump.

Are you going to believe this index or your own lyin’ eyes?

It was far more compelling than expected.

The Washington Post has fired a reporter for her rants against colleagues.

Much ado about a perfectly normal phenomenon.

Apparently, whoever has the most Twitter followers.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

Or are they?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

A long-overdue milestone has been reached.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

More on primaries with a foray into Madison and the general politics of power-seekers and incentives.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

An example of when better isn’t better.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

A brief obeservation.

Another morale booster for the good guys.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

Hoisted by their own petard.

The latest strategic moral panic from the far right

Is the creepy comic’s comeback complete?

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

It’s okay to ask a war criminal for some political dirt on your opponent, right?

Two related examples: are they “cancel culture” or not?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.