Outside the Beltway

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.

And other tales from the AK special election.

The is a 7 hour gap in the phone logs at the White House from January 6, 2021.

A post that’s only tangentially related to cancel culture.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The front-runner was indeed the pick

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

The great conservative humorist is gone at 74.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

What if the “fake news” is really fake news?

Musings about US politics and culture.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

In their censure of Cheney and Kinzinger the GOP wants to rewrite history.

Is the past still the past?

The industry is changing rapidly.

And yes, it is political (and always has been).