Outside the Beltway

After eight months in office, the pressures on Chief of Staff John Kelly continue to mount under a President who cannot be controlled and whose behavior will not change.

Maureen Dowd blames the Internet for women having sex with men they find unattractive.

President Trump’s call for National Guard troops isn’t going over well even with Republican Governors.

The great negotiator in the White House is likely underestimating the tools available to Xi.

Speaking of trade war talk…

The DJIA (and other markets) are not too happy about all of this trade war talk.

Tim Pawlenty is attempting a comeback in Minnesota. It won’t be easy.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

Another early-morning edition of Late Night OTB.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

Sticking with the spring theme.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

March’s Jobs Report fell far short of expectations.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Donald Trump broke his silence on Stormy Daniels. That was a bad idea.

A woman who was fired after a photograph of her giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade went viral is suing her former employer. She doesn’t have much of a case.

Former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen appears to be poised to give Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn a run for her money in the Volunteer State.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

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.

The “caravan” of immigrants that sent the President off the deep end on immigration issues is basically coming to an end.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

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

President Trump is talking about pulling American troops out of Syria, but his own White House is contradicting him.

President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.

A blog post and resulting Twitter exchange point to a larger problem in our political dialog.

Robert Mueller is telling the President’s lawyers that Trump is a “subject” of his investigation, but not a “target,” that’s not as significant a distinction as it may seem to be.

Begun the trade wars have.

The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

President Trump seems intent on walking away from the nuclear deal with Iran. If he does, he’ll be handing a gift to Iran and harming American national interests significantly.

More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

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.

He cooperated with the FBI. He was arrested by ICE.

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

Their website has been scrubbed! Tillerson has all but vanished! The sky is falling!

Johnetta Benton was caught on tape in a 15-minute rant against President Trump’s campaign slogan. She ain’t wrong.