Outside the Beltway

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

The real crime is what’s legal.

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

The 45th President is unlikely to face Federal prosecution but state and civil suits are not going his way.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

The idiocy continues.

The veteran character actor has died of cancer at 66.

DC’s new area code is causing an identity crisis.

“Manhattan”

A big shoe has dropped.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

A few notes from the beach.

A typical case of American blind justice.

Separate investigations are merging, with a criminal component being added.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

Science, politics, and social norms intersect in some really strange ways.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The Supreme Court refused to block a lower court order.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

First whining about losing, now whining about legislation. (And creating chaos along the way).

The actor reflects on nearly three decades with Parkinson’s.

A tale so bizarre it is hard to believe it is real.

The AG is not supposed to be the President’s personal attorney.

A mixed ruling: New York wins, Congress loses–but no release before the election.

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

For the second time, the chief federal prosecutor for Manhattan has been fired.

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

Late last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases healing with subpoenas for the President’s financial records.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

Late yesterday, the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on an order that would give Congress access to the President’s financial documents.

The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

Caught in the middle of the Ukraine scandal, the President”s lawyer has gotten his own lawyers.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

October’s jobs report came back better than expected but hardly something to cheer.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

What started out as a joke on the campaign trail has turned into a serious legal argument being made to a Federal Judge by an attorney for the President.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation by the same office he once headed as U.S. Attorney.

President Trump loses another lawsuit against his ongoing efforts to stonewall Congress.

A Federal Judge rejected the President’s effort to block a New York City prosecutor from obtaining copies of his tax returns.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

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.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.