Outside the Beltway

The aftermath of the January 6 Capitol riots runs into the First Amendment,

Some of the Capitol rioters were much more dangerous than others.

There are multiple ongoing plots and reasonable fear of infiltration of security forces.

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

A large, well-trained police force was unprepared for a foreseeable crisis.

In hindsight, there were more than a few clues.

Although, as usual, he maintains his odious approach to it all.

Barr finds no fraud.

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

But, still very bad.

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

While many are congratulating President-Elect Biden, too many are still following a loser.

The man is unwell.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Same endless song, different verse.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A right-wing militia’s hairbrained scheme to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer has been foiled.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

A shocking and yet completely unsurprising development.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

The Barr DOJ’s attempt to retcon the Flynn case has created a major problem for Flynn.

And I don’t mean not wearing a mask to Costco.

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

In a new court filing, House Democrats hint they might move to impeach the President again if the evidence warrants such action.

One weird trick for knowing if a given action will affect public opinion on Trump.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

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

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

The man who sparked the investigation into the President’s illegal conduct has been outed in a futile attempt to discredit it.

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The officer involved in the shooting death of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas has been charged with murder.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.