Outside the Beltway

New reports indicated that the President’s contacts with Ukraine’s President set off alarm bells inside the White House.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

South Park mocked Chinese censorship so, of course, they were censored in China.

Trump makes a particularly dumb comment about our alliance with Syrian Kurds.

Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war.

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

Public opinion on impeachment has shifted rapidly to the point where a majority of Americans support an impeachment inquiry and support for removal is growing as well.

President Trump’s latest Syria move is coming under heavy criticism even from fellow Republicans.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

A star NBA general manager may lose his job for expressing American values.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

After an emotional sentencing hearing that included an extraordinary display of mercy and forgiveness from her victim’s family, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Even as the impeachment vultures circle, the President is lashing out and making things more difficult for himself.

Congressman Chris Collins, an early supporter of President Trump’s, will be pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

A blast from the past: two days before the Zelensky call.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a huge and historic loss in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Obvious advice is obvious.

What we know for sure.

Cory Booker’s campaign is basically admitting they’re at the end of the road.

New York City’s Mayor ends a campaign that was going nowhere.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

We’re unlikely to see anyone like her again.

As the Saudis continue to evaluate the impact of the weekend attack on a major oil facility, the Trump Administration tones down the anti-Iran rhetoric just a bit.

While the world continues to evaluate the impact of Saturday’s attack on a Saudi oil facility, tensions in the Persian Gulf are increasing.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

This evening ten Democratic candidates for President, including all of the front runners, appear on stage together for the third debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

Boris Johnson suffers a setback in court in Scotland, including a specific finding that he misled Queen Elizabeth II when he sought her permission to suspend Parliament.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Air Force’s use of Trump hotels predates his presidency—but is still highly problematic.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

President Trump announced late yesterday that he had called off secret meetings with the Taliban. The fact that they were even going to happen reveals yet again what’s wrong with his foreign policy.