Outside the Beltway

Federal Courts continue to rule against the Administration, and the President continues to lash out at Judges and demonstrate his contempt for the Rule Of Law.

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious and some people are panicking about it.

The widow of Sgt. La David Johnson spoke out about the death of her husband and the controversy over the phone call she received from President Trump. And Trump proceeded to attack her and call her a liar.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

Two Federal Judges have issued orders blocking the latest version of President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban.

Now Donald Trump is using the death of American soldiers to tell lies about his predecessor.

A sign of hope that Alabama voters could end up rejecting the far-right theocratic politics of Roy Moore? Possibly.

Progress in Saudi Arabia, but there’s still a long way for this backward, discriminatory society to go.

Kurds in Iraq voted overwhelmingly for independence in a non-binding referendum, and the result is threatening to create a new conflict in the Middle East.

The Trump Administration has issued a new travel ban to replace the temporary one that expired late last week, but it still suffers from most of the same defects as its initial efforts.

Commerce Department figures report a measurable drop in international travel to the United States since the start of 2017.

The London subway was hit by a bomb during the morning rush hour. Authorities are treating it as a terrorist attack.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

The Trump Administration has suffered another Court defeat related to the President’s Muslim Travel Ban.

A race for the Virginia House of Delegates straight out of a civics book.

Who could have predicted we would be where we are at the moment in terms of racial politics and the White House?

At least thirteen dead in an apparent terrorist attack in Spain.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

My apologies to Bob Dreyfuss and Rolling Stone.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

In a decision that hands a victory to both sides, the Supreme Court has partly upheld, and partly lifted, the stay on President Trump’s Executive Order that banned travel from six majority-Muslim nations.

With tomorrow marking the end of the Court’s current term, there’s speculation that we could see Justice Anthony Kennedy stepping down.

A van struck a crowd outside a London mosque late last night in an attack by a man who said he wanted to kill Muslims.

Donald Trump thinks the media doesn’t like his Twitter habit. In reality, they love it.

The Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban suffers another defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The political party formed by French President Emmanuel Macron just about a year ago scored big wins in yesterday’s first round of legislative elections.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

President Trump responded to last night’s terror attacks by taking to Twitter.

Another night of terror in the United Kingdom.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

A night of carnage and depravity in the United Kingdom.

President Trump’s speech on Islam was a change of tone. However, as critics noted, it was short on substance and is unlikely to accomplish anything.

Iranian voters have re-elected Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate whose election in 2013 was largely responsible for the shifts in policy that made the international agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear research program possible.

The Trump White House knew Michael Flynn was under investigation and named him National Security Adviser anyway.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.