Outside the Beltway

With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.

Two Republicans spoke out today against the President’s war on the news media, but don’t expect their colleagues to follow suit.

With only days to go, Congress seems unable to come up with either a funding deal for the Federal Government or a solution to the DACA issue.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Fortunately, yesterday’s missile alert in Hawaii was a false alarm. However, it is raising questions about the early warning system that’s in place and the state’s preparedness in case of an actual attack.

Support for Trump’s comments are very telling.

Once again, President Trump opens his mouth and proceeds to insult a good part of the world while embarrassing the country.

America’s closest allies sent a strong signal that they do not agree with President Trump on the nuclear deal with Iran.

A Federal Judge has put a hold on the impending end of the DACA program.

Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate in Arizona.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making it clear she has no intention of leaving office before the 2020 election.

New reports indicate that the President is spending more and more time watching television and tweeting. That’s not what he was elected to do.

If you can’t beat a dead horse on a blog, where can you?

Donald Trumps’ tweets are the public statements of the President of the United States. This makes them noteworthy and often important.

Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.

Republican David Yancy was declared the winner of a disputed election, giving the GOP a slim one-seat majority in the state’s House of Delegates.

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

Donald Trump’s irrational tweets are once again focused on the leader of North Korea.

After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.

POTUS decided to start the New Year by insulting Pakistan over Twitter.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Anti-government protests are spreading in Iran.

The battle for control of the Virginia House of Delegates remains up in the air as both sides continue to dispute the outcome in one district.

Late yesterday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling striking down the latest version of Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

New York Knicks Center Enes Katner is at the center of an international legal dispute for speaking out against the President of Turkey.

A new poll shows President Trump losing to a “Generic Democrat.” This poll means nothing.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

Republicans passed their tax bill yesterday. What that means for the economy and the 2018 midterms is another question.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

A Trump judicial nominee who could not answer basic legal questions in a hearing last week has withdrawn his nomination, but this is likely to happen again unless the Administration fixes some obvious flaws in its selection process.

We’re looking to inject some new life into an old blog.

House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.

Donald Trump spends an inordinate amount of time watching television and regurgitating what he sees on Twitter. That’s not healthy.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Donald Trump Jr. is claiming that some conversations between him and his father are covered by the attorney-client privilege. Based on what we know about those conversations, there’s a good possibility that he’s right.

A fitting honor for women who have brought to light an issue that was swept under the rug for far too long.

A seventh woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of having groped her as calls mount from his Democratic colleagues for him to resign.

Mueller crosses Trump’s “red line.”

The Supreme Court is allowing the latest version of Donald Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban to go into effect.

President Trump has formally endorsed an accused child molester for the United States Senate.

The current temporary spending measure reached by Congress in September expires on Friday, and Republicans haven’t come up with a solution yet.

The Senate passed a tax cut bill last night, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

Ominous news for the Trump Administration today out of Federal Court in Washington, D.C.

A not guilty verdict in a case that Donald Trump turned into a political issue.