Outside the Beltway

There’s no voting in baseball.

Vaccinations are not keeping up with recklessness.

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

Any “fair” drawing of districts will yield a GOP advantage over time.

An interesting blast from the past.

Yet another example.

Ted Cruz is at it again.

Foolish lies are for foolish liars.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

The politics of bait-and-switch.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

This feels like resignation territory.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

It is really so hard to understand that you don’t go on vacation during a massive disaster?

The 97-year-old former Senator and Presidential candidate is ill.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

And illustrations of the fact that this isn’t a regular trial.

Its founders are laughing all the way to the bank.

Most agree that it was good theater. But it’s not clear what they’ve proven.

Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.

Not.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The pivot point in the impeachment charges: two hours of silence.

A legally correct but maddening ruling.

Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.

David Brooks is the leader in the clubhouse.

History has been made in more than one way.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

Mike Lindell’s behavior is both farcical and dangerous.

His column for The Hill feels more like concern trolling than anything else.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

A one-time denizen of Blogger’s Row at CPAC has come a long way.

So. Much. Winning.

“Trump is a failed leader.”

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Trump is careless with his words and extremists respond.