Outside the Beltway

The President is tired of all the fake news.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.

After a close election, Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on his effort to form a government.

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

Roy Moore’s second bid for the Senate isn’t going so well.

In what seems to be clear violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, the President is seeking to enrich himself and his family,

American negotiators are claiming a ceasefire in northern Syria. The Turks, Syrians, and Russians are the winners, the Kurds are the losers, and we look like schmucks.

The United Kingdom and European Union have apparently reached a new Brexit deal, but it’s unclear if Boris Johnson can get it through Parliament.

As the vultures continue to circle above the White House, the President continues to lash out.

As he reaches his 1,000th day in office, Trump’s lies pile up at an astronomical rate.

There’s no rational explanation for this.

An iconic and honorable Member of Congress has passed away.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

The third part of a long, but connected, set of thoughts.

Beto O’Rourke wants to use government policy to punish religious institutions that don’t recognize same-sex marriages.

New testimony from a former Trump adviser details how Rudy Giuliani was able to hijek American foreign policy.

As the Turkish invasion of northern Syria continues, Donald Trump responds with basically nothing.

Elizabeth Warren’s comments at an LGBT rights forum late last week were cheered by the audience, but some Democrats are raising concerns about their impact on the General Election.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report adds to the evidence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump’s error in Syria.

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

A public service announcement.

President Trump loses yet another Cabinet Secretary.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

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.