Outside the Beltway

Another one bites the dust.

New reports indicate that the North Koreans never took any of the steps to reduce their research programs that President Trump claimed they did.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

Five men have been sentenced to die by a Saudi Arabian court for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but the parties who are really responsible are getting off scot-free.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the PPACA”s individual mandate unconstitutional but left the fate of the rest of the law unresolved.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting she might hold back on sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This seems like a bad idea.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

Given the times we live in, you may be tempted to argue about politics tomorrow. Here’s my advice — don’t do it.

President Trump has put his son-in-law in charge of building the border wall.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Republicans used to honor the men and women who serve our country. In the Trump Era, they attack them in defense of the President.

Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is reportedly considering a late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination.

French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the NATO alliance is suffering brain death due to President Trump’s neglect and lack of leadership.

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

Smugglers are getting over and through Trump’s border wall with material you can buy at your local Home Depot.

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

Kamala Harris’s Presidential race continues to his bumpy roads.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

If President Trump expected to get a political bump from the death of the leader of ISIS, he is most likely going to be disappointed.