Outside the Beltway

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

Where you can’t be off topic before there IS no topic.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

The Democratic candidates for President who didn’t qualify for the third debate are coming under increased pressure to get out of the race.

Indonesia is beginning an ambitious program to move its capital city. Because the current capital of Jakarta is sinking.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

Just joking edition.

For a change not by me.

The reaction to Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament to force a hard Brexit is mostly negative, but there appears to be little that can be done to stop it.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken a step that virtually guarantees that the United Kingdom will go ahead with a hard Brexit at the end of October.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

An Oklahoma state court Judge has handed down what many are hailing as a landmark ruling related to the opioid crisis, but there’s reason to be skeptical about his conclusions.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

Iowa Congressman Steve King finds himself low on campaign cash and with virtually no support from his party.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

A new poll shows Joe Biden dropping significantly among national Democrats to the point where he is effectively tied with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

We may have the first known case of a crime committed in space.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Elizabeth Warren is rising tn the polls of the Democratic primary race, but one analyst argues she may be the perfect candidate….to help re-elect Donald Trump.

Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Andrew Luck surprised the sports world last night by announcing an early retirement.

Tom Brady tried to trademark the nickname “Tom Terrific.” It didn’t go so well.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

In this case, Rich Lowry’s.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

And what a week it has been.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Welcome to Friday

Republican candidates are lining up to take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even though the odds of a Republican winning in her district are essentially zero.

Republicans from around the country want Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for Senate in Kansas. Because they’re afraid they can’t win without him.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Mark Kelly, and the Democratic Party, got some good news in the latest Senate poll out of Arizona.