Outside the Beltway

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Welcome to Friday.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

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

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

Kamala Harris, whose campaign has been floundering for months, is out of the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

President Trump said this morning that he’s fine with letting his trade war with the rest of the world continue all the way to the 2020 election.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

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

Comet 2I/Borisov originated from an unknown star system and has made its way from the cold dark of interstellar space into our neck of the woods.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.

And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

The costs of irresponsible policy.

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

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