Outside the Beltway

The Federal Reserve sees the economy staying relatively the same for the foreseeable future, which is both a good and bad thing.

Some good news from North Korea.

Trump’s tariff plan isn’t going over well in farm country, and that could cause problems for the GOP in November.

President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

A recent defection from North Korea gives us a peek inside the DPRK, and it’s not pretty.

The new GDP growth estimate shows healthy economic growth in the second quarter, but it’s unclear if it can be sustained.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

The president’s skinny budget would eliminate most funding for science and the arts to fund more Defense spending.

Trump’s attempt to fix the balance of trade will almost surely end up leaving us all worse off.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

Two Republican Senators are introducing legislation that would result in drastic reductions in the number of people allowed into the country legally.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It is a misguided and foolish attempt to try and buy votes without appearing to buy votes.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

A report card for the 2009 Stimulus Bill.

Advisers? Donald Trump doesn’t need no stinkin’ advisers.

The people who believe there is a ‘War On Christmas” tend to be the same ones who hold to the largely false idea that their religious beliefs are under assault due to a “culture war.”

Jeb Bush’s campaign has been in a rough patch for several weeks at least, and now he’s lost three top fundraisers.

The Supreme Court has struck down a program that forced farmers to turn over a portion of their crop to the government without compensation.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is supposed to be a champion of limited government. So why is he starting up a state run news agency?

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

Should the Legislature take back legislating from the Executive?

One of last members of President Obama’s original cabinet is stepping aside.

They’ve got a new President, but there’s still much to do.

A GOP Senate Candidate in Georgia attempts to back track, and runs off the rails in the process.

Does your kid qualify for subsidized lunch? One candidate for Senate in Georgia wants to put them to work.

Immigration reform may be the next big battle on Capitol Hill, but it’s going to be far different from the one that just concluded.

(And a Postscript on Recent Discussion of the South)

The federal government won’t have money to pay its workers come Tuesday but it’ll spend like a drunken sailor on Monday.

Prism ain’t got nothin’ on the Hemisphere Project.

Unfortunately, our immigration debate is just plain dumb.

Another legal setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crusade to regulate what New York City residents can eat and drink.