Outside the Beltway

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

If you changed the channel after the third quarter, you missed what ended up becoming a game for the ages.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

Nice work, Mr. President.

Trump’s tweet may have been casual bluster posted while sitting at the breakfast table (presumably eating Wheaties®—The Breakfast of Champions). We can’t know. And finally it matters not because what really matters is that it was taken at face value by President Peña Nieto.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

Police must be seen as neutral protectors of the peace.

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

What is the deal with the love-fest for Julian Assange?

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Trump’s populism, personalism, and irresponsibility are on display.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

Rest in Peace, Princess. May the Force be with you.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

Another music superstar has passed away.

It’s not all peaches and cream for pretty young women.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

Republicans sure have changed their mind about Vladimir Putin.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

An unsurprising win in the Pelican State.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

An odd choice for HUD Secretary.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.