Outside the Beltway

When you tax sin, you need more of it.

What we believe and what we say we believe are often not the same.

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

Running down the latest “known knowns” with just a bit of analysis

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

Some quick hits.

They’re spending millions on issue ads in the wake of Dobbs.

Psst. Don’t tell anyone.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

His final resting place pays tribute to his love of OTB and the Yankees.

This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”

“Group on the Move”

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

Tell us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants without telling us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

A new meme started by Republican leaders is mostly false.

A great American author is gone at 89.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

Some new data are encouraging.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

A major milestone has been reached.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

Her price to sign on to the Inflation Reduction Act was, well, odd.

How much say should the community have in what’s included?

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

Things are better than expected.

A few quick observations at the end of the week.

“Coming Around for Another Pass”

Sigh.