Outside the Beltway

Is a threat in the eye of the receiver or the issuer?

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

There’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

The combination of a horrendous rollout and a social media onslaught was disastrous.

Is harassing judges, mayors, Senators, and the like in their private lives just free speech?

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Because they’re indoctrinating the youth with their biased agendas and liberal, unfactual diastribes.

A brief obeservation.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

Generalities about an elusive and controversial phenomenon are unhelpful.

Musings about US politics and culture.

People, details do in fact matter!

Is a contribution after an election different from one during an election?

It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

The Biden administration is not doing enough.

I know obscenity when I see it and this ain’t it.

Ron DeSantis and friends are afraid of higher education.

Another narrowly-crafted but overwhelming opinion from the Supreme Court.

Retired generals are no longer in the military.

A truly bizarre controversy at Chapel Hill.

A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

The 6th Circuit is allowing a professor fired for misgendering a transwoman to sue his state university.

What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

What was mere signaling under a Republican Senate and President could now become law.

It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.

The man still can’t get out of his own way.

The problem is theoretical at best and cannot stop the Senate from acting.

His column for The Hill feels more like concern trolling than anything else.

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

Not of governance.

What meanings might the Founders have had? How should we understand the term?

I couldn’t help myself.

Sorry, UC Irvine, as long as Navarro is on the faculty, no donations from this graduate.

The one-time wunderkind, blogging pioneer, and same-sex marriage champion is now on the outs.

An interesting if frustrating new survey from Cato.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The Country Music Hall of Famer is gone.

The crowd for DC’s fireworks celebration was small but weird.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.