Outside the Beltway

We can forgive the raping, graft, election stealing, and warmongering. But this goes too far!

Preemption?

Better than expected jobs report amid other less positive news.

Ready or not, the campaign has begun.

Tales from the dumbest timeline.

The Art of the Deal in action.

When international tournaments aren’t international.

Plus: the Strait of Hormuz.

What could go wrong?

Trump admin helping pick winners and losers

Enough is never enough.

Trump and the Obamas.

Just exhaustingly long…

Going from bad to worse.

Just harness Senator Mullin’s views on regime change in Iran.

The ongoing attempt to venerate the J6 insurrectionists.

“People are being designated” dontcha know.

Where’s Congress?

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

It is hard to ignore the aesthetic he is invoking.

A bad night for Trump.

The standoff is in its 35th day.

He’s making a major admission.

A million dollars a day.

…but don’t let the Epstein matter distract you from everything else Trump is doing.

The takeaway of Hegseth’s video and the Pentagon’s clarification is meant to be obvious. 

Thinking about the evolution (or is it devolution) of the GOP since the 1990s.

The Russian autocrat may be on the verge of getting what he wants.

Why I am not a conspiracy guy, but also wonder why he is shouting about the whole thing.

An unusual diplomatic approach.

Of course you realize this means war.

Thoughts on the election and on the electoral rules used.

Say what Trump wants or he’ll threaten to sue!

Iran came “this close” to ending the Zionist regime.

The preliminary DIA assessment has been leaked.

Maximalist claims are almost surely overstated.

Whatever that means.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

The information bubble is real.