Outside the Beltway

It’s reasonable and just to adjust our outrage based on the context of the time when incidents occurred.

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

Eight years after it was signed into law, a Federal Judge has ruled the Affordable Care Act to be unconstitutional.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

The Scots want to stop Brexit, but it’s not clear they have the power to stop it.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

President Trump got his revised version of NAFTA, but Canadians are less positive about the United States than they have been in at least twenty years.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

The target is not just on illegal immigrants.

A Pennsylvania Grand Jury report reveals decades of abuse by some 300 Catholic Priests impacting more than 1,000 children and 26 of the state’s Roman Catholic Diocese.

Deficits continue to rise.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

A Federal Judge has rejected a Trump Administration effort to change a 20-year-old legal settlement that bars long-term detention of immigrant families.

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

The Administration is going to unveil a plan for a major reorganization of government agencies today.

Trump supporters seeking to justify the Trump Administration’s family separation policy are drawing a false, and baseless, equivalence between immigrant families and people who have been convicted of crimes.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

The Trump Administration is declining to defend the Affordable Care Act in Court, arguing that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because the tax penalty has been eliminated.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is hinting she might try to revive a Scottish independence vote in the wake of Brexit. That’s easier said than done.

Don’t look for a Trump agenda for the rest of the year. It doesn’t exist.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenge to President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. It didn’t appear to go well for the challengers.

Randa Jarrar was classless and contemptible, which is protected by the First Amendment. As a tenured state employee so is her job.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.

A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

A series of scandals at Oxfam and other charitable organizations raise troubling questions.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it will no longer investigate civil rights complaints from transgender students regarding bathroom access in public schools.

After nearly four decades in power, Robert Mugabe has stepped down after a military coup. What happens next is another, more complicated, question.

Voters in Maine hand their conservative Governor a setback.

A gunman opened fire on a crowd of over 20,000 people in Las Vegas, and the results have been predictably horrific.

A van struck a crowd outside a London mosque late last night in an attack by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

Scotland’s First Minister is calling for another independence vote in the wake of the beginning of the Brexit process, but she’s unlikely to get it.

I am going to construct a complicated mathematical model of the economy, and then I’m going to calibrate it using some actual data, and in the end I will be able to tell everyone how much better or worse off they are given various changes in the economy. And it will be totally and completely true. Trust me, it’s math and therefore science.

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

A speech traditionally used to unite was instead a continuation of a divisive campaign.

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

Donald Trump engages in some nice post hoc ergo propter hoc by implying that the decline in manufacturing jobs in North Carolina is due to NAFTA. Ignoring that other factors are more likely playing a far greater role in the loss of manufacturing jobs.

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Responding to comments on this morning’s post.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

A country music legend has passed.