Outside the Beltway

Hegseth didn’t label Mormons as “Christian” on his list and Mike Lee isn’t happy.

Examples from TX and KY.

It won’t be easy.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Looking ahead, hopefully with some purpose.

It’s hard to win a street fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules.

A significant blow to Democrats.

Plus, I question the timing.

Only 32 of 435 House seats are competitive.

Race and partisanship collide once again.

Disentangling the two is challenging, if not impossible.

Partisan gerrymandering just got a bit easier.

Free speech is not always met with more speech.

Fighting autocracy with autocracy.

The state of being too big to care.

We have a problem, but we aren’t even trying to address it.

Now an airport.

From the grounds of the state capitol in Montgomery, AL.

Sounding a barbaric yawp over the streets of the world.

How it started and how it’s going.

A coin for Dear Leader.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, wear it.

Little Marco has come a long way.

Are our columnists learning? (I think you know the answer).

More excerpts from excellent columns I’ve read.

Preliminary thoughts from several columnists.

A potential Executive Order on elections.

Trump admin helping pick winners and losers

The appointment of white supremacist to a State Department slot creates some thoughts.

The critics are divided.

The Epstein fallout highlights differences in the US and UK systems.

Destroying democracy in order to save it.

It’s bad business to alienate key customers.

What could possibly go wrong?

The big lie of 2020 continues.

So says the Cook Political Report

Gestapo is as Gestapo does.

Abigail Spanberger made history this afternoon.

An actual move to acquire Greenland by force or coercion would be a massive line for the Trump administration to cross.

We may be closer to regime change than any point since the 1979 Revolution.

The ongoing attempt to venerate the J6 insurrectionists.

We’ve seen this movie before.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

With a heavy dose of Christian nationalism.

Come for the shots fired at the cabinet, stay for the weird digression.