Outside the Beltway

Demonstrators once again breached Hill security.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump has his own insurrection attempt.

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

Getting an impartial jury in an internationally-famous case is next to impossible.

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

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Kentucky teenager alleging he had been defamed by the coverage of his confrontation with a Native American man in January.

Trump’s self-congratulatory July 4th nonsense bankrupted the District of Columbia’s security fund, now they’re seeking reimbursement.

Ideas, not tanks.

A new report says that the Trump Administration lobbied the National Park Service to edit photos of the crowd at President Trump’s Inauguration.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Today in “Alternative Facts.”

The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

Some people didn’t like the song selection at last night’s Washington, D.C. concert for Veterans Day.

Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.

The presence of politicians like Sarah Palin at yesterday’s “Million Veteran March” was not appreciated by the people who organized the protest.

Conservatives gathered on the National Mall today to protest the closure of memorials, but their message seems really intended for Republicans in Congress to not back down.

One cannot support the shutdown tactic and then be outraged that part of the government is shutdown.

One of the dumber aspects of the current shutdown repeats itself.

Legal guidelines for protestors.

Why in the hell are Federal taxpayers footing the bill for residential trash collection in DC?

The next week promises to be a battle between John Boehner and the Tea Party over whether or not compromise is a good idea.

215,000 people attended the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” compared to 87,000 for “Restoring Honor.” Even if you believe the numbers, they don’t tell us much.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin held a rally on the National Mall, but at times it sounded more like an old-time religious revival than a modern political rally.

The Tea Party is coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday for a Glenn Beck rally and one travel guide is warning them to stay away from certain parts of the city. Subtle racism ? No, it’s common sense.

You aren’t allowed the sing the Star Spangled Banner at the Lincoln Memorial.