Outside the Beltway

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a Mississippi law that banned nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

I think Representative Van Drew has made a miscalculation.

Continuing a discuss from below.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

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

Alliance to party trumps alliance to branch.

A new poll shows Senator Lindsey Graham vulnerable to a Democratic challenge next year, but there are several caveat.

Welcome to the weekend.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

China and the U.S. have reached an initial trade deal that averts billions of dollars of new, inadvisable, tariffs, but the devil is in the details.

For only the fourth time in history, the House Judiciary Committee has approved Articles of Impeachment against a sitting President.

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

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

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

Having failed to form governments after two successive elections, Israel is headed for a third election inside of a year.

British voters are voting today in the third election in four years. This time, the fate of Brexit is on the ballot.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

Russia has been barred from the 2020 and 2022 Olympics as well as other international sporting events due to widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Some reports are indicating that Joe Biden’s campaign is considering making a pledge that he would only serve a single term if elected. This would be a mistake.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

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

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

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.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

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

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

With just days to go before the election, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party appears headed for a win that should allow him to finish Brexit.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

Especially Senate inaction.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

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