Outside the Beltway

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

How far should the government be able to go?

And some cable “news” thoughts.

In truth, not close to enough.

What about Biden?

Ukraine is heavily censoring foreign media.

The stiffest punishment yet for a January 6 seditionist.

A $787.5 million flesh wound.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

You know the drill.

Russia is circulating doctored versions of plans for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

The former President gets too much credit for his ability to manipulate news coverage.

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

Another bill doomed to die.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

That time the Nazis made a movie about the Titanic.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

How much blame did the 70-year constitutional monarch share?

Russian forces have been forced out of two logistical support hubs.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Original blogger AllahPundit is leaving Hot Air after 16 years.

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

Paywalls are not our problem.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

New evidence gets us a wee bit closer to a smoking gun.

The new honcho at the original 24 hour news network wants to be more subtle and less alarmest.

Chris Stirewalt takes a victory lap.

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

It was far more compelling than expected.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

What does it all mean? It depends on who you ask.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

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

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

The face of Fox News is not the bow-tied buffoon from his “Crossfire” days.

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

The craziest damn thing you’ve ever heard of or a secret message to the crazies?

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

It would be fitting but, alas, won’t happen.

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

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

The BBC checks the facts.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).