Outside the Beltway

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

The Biden administration’s mandate has been lifted immediately.

There are too many variables to make generalized calculations.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

The real crime is what’s legal.

The first round is currently being held.

Ethics, schmethics.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

Is the creepy comic’s comeback complete?

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

And other tales from the AK special election.

She is running to finish out Don Young’s term in Congress.

This time via Senator Rick Scott.

A good jobs report.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

Grifting, all the way down.

Concerns have been alleviated.

His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.

The most important man in the Senate got rich the old fashioned way.

The network’s longtime weekend anchor couldn’t take it anymore.

The President is taking a page out of Elizabeth Warren’s playbook.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Parents of disabled kids have successfully sued to mandate masks in schools.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

New evidence changes the story ever so slightly.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

More brutality from an ostensible US ally.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

An incredibly isolated Russian leader is not interested in running the country.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

Links and infographics.

News and commentary of note.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The reports are conflicting but I’d bet on Yes.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

Greatest democracy in the world, right?