Outside the Beltway

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

One week out from the second Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appears to be the biggest beneficiary. while Kamala Harris appears to be falling behind.

Cesar Sayoc, the man who started a panic in October when he sent apparent explosive devices to a number of President Trump’s critics, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

July’s Jobs Report was in line with expectations, but hardly indicative of a booming economy.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

A great public intellectual, pioneering blogger, and all-around good man is gone.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

The Federal Budget Deficit passed the $700 Billion mark with three months still to go in the Fiscal Year.

Joe Biden delivered his first major foreign policy address of the campaign. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than what we have right now.

President Obama wanted to end it but his former VP used it to his advantage.

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

While significantly more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, recovery is still possible.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

The surging candidate seems to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

A day after appearing to have conceded the issue, the Trump Administration says it is still looking for a way to include a citizenship question on the ballot.

President Trump And the RNC raised a record amount in the second quarter of the year.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

Just over a year after the United States repudiated the JCPOA, Iran has surpassed a limit on uranium enrichment set by the JCPOA

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

POLITICO reports that some Democratic activists think she went too far.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

The latest is about deportations

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The original ‘scandal’ was silly. The follow-up is sillier.