Outside the Beltway

Is America’s military capable of fighting the next war?

There’s training on uncomfortable subjects. Oh noes!

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

The President hit all the right notes.

The country’s largest employer is soon going to be less tolerant of the unvaccinated.

Stoking a bizarre fantasy that will not die.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

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.

Suicide has become a bigger threat to members of the military and veterans than combat. That needs to change.

Is benefitting politically from romantic liaisons different than other relationships?

The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.

John Kelly is nearing the end of his first year as White House Chief of Staff, and it’s becoming apparent that his mission to bring order to a disordered White House has failed.

In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.

Three Executive Orders signed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday has government employees scrambling.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

The Vice-President’s personal physician accused Ronny Jackson of misconduct back in September, according to new reports.

Despite the fact that President Trump’s continues to praise him, Ronny Jackson will not be returning to the White House as the President’s personal physician.

The White House is pushing back on the allegations of misconduct that were made against Ronny Jackson this week, and trying to use them in a high-profile Senate race in Montana.

President Trump may be looking to push Chief of Staff John Kelly aside by giving him a next to impossible job.

Not unexpectedly, Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

With the accusations mounting, the nomination of Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs is becoming more and more imperiled.

The White House physician is accused of excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing medication among other offenses.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

Leland Bohannon objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds. What rights should he have to act on that belief?

The Trump Administration says David Shulkin resigned as Veterans Affairs Secretary. Shulkin says he was fired. Which one of them is right could be legally significant, but probably won’t ever be heard in Court.

Within hours after being fired as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin was fighting back.

Descriptions of Robby Jackson as “Trump’s personal physician” mischaracterize his qualifications for the job.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Donald Trump will take some time off after taking the Oath of Office.

What was promoted as major foreign policy speech by Donald Trump turned out to be more substance-free stream-of-consciousness rambling from an egomaniac.

Lawmakers and journalists don’t understand the civil service.

The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.

Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs this morning, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

It seems unlikely that Eric Shinseki will have a job for much longer.

There’s plenty of blame to go around.

For veterans who get in trouble with the law, *when* they commit a crime can have profound implications on their future. Does this make sense?

Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.

Phil Carter draws attention to “The Vets We Reject and Ignore.”

The federal government won’t have money to pay its workers come Tuesday but it’ll spend like a drunken sailor on Monday.

President Obama has decided not to enforce a law. This is most unusual and somewhat disturbing.

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

The man who played Captain Kirk is not amused by an IRS training video featuring his iconic character.

It’s okay to criticize military veterans–even if you never served in the military.

Virginia has been offering ID cards to military veterans to make it easier to prove that they’re military veterans for months now.

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a federal crime to lie about military honors, on free speech grounds.