Outside the Beltway

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

The early reaction was premature.

They are standing by as ordered.

The absurdity of this presidency illustrated yet again.

The Paycheck Protection Program protected some interesting paychecks.

A useful insight from the former late night comic.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

There’s a disturbing pattern of misogyny from his supporters.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Lock her up?

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

A weird media narrative has formed.

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire investor previously charged with sex crimes involving minors, has been charged with sex trafficking involving minors.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

Robert Mueller objected to the Attorney General’s characterization of the final report he submitted, reports indicate.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

A classic demonstration of the old maxim, “the medium is the message.”

The decision to hand Democrats a victory and step on the good news from the Mueller report apparently came from the very top.

“His sexual needs were his sexual needs.” And, you know, criminal.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Cardinal George Pell, the top Catholic Cleric in Australia, has been convicted of sexually abusing boys in the 1990s.

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.

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

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

The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.

A particularly appalling case of press censorship from Australia.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’s not running for President in 2020.

Is Donald Trump thinking about dumping Mike Pence in 2020? Probably not, but that’s not going to stop the speculation.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

A thoughtful liberal argues the Justice has “altered and destroyed his legacy” by allowing Donald Trump to appoint his successor.

New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.

Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.

Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.

Some Republicans are suggesting that Paul Ryan should be pushed out as Speaker before the November elections.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

The FBI committed gross malfeasance in building a case against the widow of Omar Mateen. She nonetheless bears significant blame for 53 deaths.

If you’re tired of the restraint being shown by this President, you may be in luck.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been involved in efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story for at least the past seven years.

Less than 24 hours after the McCabe firing, the president’s attorney explicitly connects the move to the Mueller probe.

One of the supposed “adults” in the Trump administration has no class.