Outside the Beltway

A new GAO report finds that HUD Secretary Ben Carson broke the law when he ordered a $31,000 table for his office.

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

It’s that time again.

It’s that time again.

Your invitation to spout off.

Sometimes they’re still on Wednesday.

Now every other day.

Your mid-week opportunity to spout off about . . . whatevs.

In a recent speech, President Trump made claims about abortion that are manifestly untrue but which his pro-life supporters continue to believe.

The Sunday morning edition.

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

The Sunday morning edition of our biweekly invitation to go off topic.

The mid-week edition of our free-for-all.

It’s that time again.

The mid-week edition.

If it’s Sunday night . . .

The mid-week edition.

Our new bi-weekly tradition continues.

It’s that time again.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

So, what do you want to talk about?

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

The HUD Secretary’s practice of treating Friday as a light-duty day is just fine by me.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

Once again, Rudy Giuliani is contradicting his client.

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

President Trump tried to get into the Christmas spirit last night. He failed.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

The scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

Trump has selected current Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff, but that’s unlikely to change how the West Wing operates.

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

Now that’s a lot of beef.

Apparently, this is a thing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Donald Trump is engaging in another round of baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.