Outside the Beltway

Another milestone has been reached.

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

A big fundraising quarter for the Senator from Vermont.

Kamala Harris’s Presidential race continues to his bumpy roads.

New polling is showing increased public support for President Trump’s impeachment and removal

A new record, but unfortunately it won’t be recognized.

Cory Booker announced some respectable fundraising numbers, but his campaign continues to coast along just above the point of irrelevance.

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

The House Democratic Caucus is becoming more divided on the issue of moving forward with impeachment.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

It was a very successful fundraising quarter for the former Vice-President.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

Further progress for advocates of marijuana legalization from the Land of Lincoln.

A Federal Judge in Mississippi has blocked Mississippi’s law that purports to ban abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat.

The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

Military culture is a strange beast.

History’s first all-female spacewalk was thwarted by a lack of smaller suits.

Predictably, news that the investigation has ended has people on both sides cheering. It’s unwarranted.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

The first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have been an all-around success.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

A confidential agreement has ended a collusion suit filed against the National Football League in 2017.

As the shutdown enters day thirty-five, there are some signs of movement in Washington but no real progress.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

California Senator Kamala Harris is set to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination later this month.

China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.

Under fire from the New York Attorney General, Donald Trump’s questionable charitable foundation is shutting down.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Amazon has joined Apple to become the second American corporation to reach $1,000,000,000,000 in market valuation.

Vermont Democrats nominated a transgender woman for Governor yesterday but she faces long odds in November.

Another milestone set to be crossed.

Forty-two years after being founded in a California garage, and twenty years after nearly going broke, Apple Computer has become the first publicly traded company to top $1 trillion in value.

A milestone for the nation’s oldest service academy, founded in 1802.

An aggressive worldwide vaccination program has brought us to the point where we may soon be able to declare the eradication of Polio. That is a great thing and another argument against the anti-vaxxers.

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

The Marvel superhero film passed ‘Titanic’ in US ticket sales. Unless we adjust for inflation. Which we absolutely should.

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

We don’t yet have enough information to assign blame here. Naturally, that’s not stopping anyone.

The fact that Andrew McCabe was fired before he could retire means that he will lose out on some significant pension benefits, but. contrary to some media reporting, he won’t lose his pension completely.

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

While the nature of Rex Tillerson’s firing as Secretary of State was shocking in its abruptness, taken in context with the rocky nature of his tenure it was hardly surprising.

Ending an investigation that was flawed and tainted with partisanship from the start, the House Intelligence Committee has abruptly concluded its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

He did what many had thought humanly impossible in running a sub-4 minute mile in 1954 and followed that with a brilliant career in medicine.

Yesterday’s Falcon Heavy Launch was a near-complete success and another amazing advance in the race to the stars.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive branch of sorts to South Korea while simultaneously claiming success in achieving a nuclear deterrent.