Outside the Beltway

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

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

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

And if you don’t know, now you know.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with staging an attack initially called a “hate crime.”

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

Based on his appearance on CNN last night, Howard Schultz appears to be running a campaign about nothing.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

In a replay of last week, Virginia’s top Democrats are calling on a state official to resign. This time, though, it’s Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.

A man somehow got elected governor without being very good at politics.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has rejoined the Republican Party, leading many to wonder if he’s considering a challenge to President Trump in 2020.

Lindsey Graham is telling his fellow Republicans that they better back the President if he decides to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

The Trump Administration either doesn’t realize the impact the shutdown is having on Federal workers who haven’t been paid in a month, or it doesn’t care.

Wearing Donald Trump’s famous campaign symbol creates a presumption of ill intent. Is that fair?

President Trump has backed down in his showdown with Speaker Pelosi over the State of the Union Address, but that does nothing to bring us closer to a resolution of the government shutdown.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

Thoughts on politics and constitutional powers.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

As the government shutdown continues, Washington is coming to resemble a fight between toddlers. Except the toddlers have the excuse of not knowing any better.

Nancy Pelosi is “suggesting” to the President that the State of the Union be rescheduled for a time after the government shutdown ends, but it clearly seems like more than just a suggestion.

RIP, Dolly.

After twenty-five days, there’s no end in sight to the Federal Government shutdown. You can thank the President for that.

President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.

Carlos Sanchez, who portrayed Juan Valdez the unofficial ambassador of Colombian coffee for some 30 years, has died at the age of 83.

President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.

One-half of a pop music icon in the 70’s, the Captain has passed away.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

That’s not how it works.

As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

The damage done for Mickey Mouse in the name of Sony Bono is finally coming to an end.

Fifty years ago tonight, one of the most iconic photos in history was taken.

The Pentagon is being ordered to draw up plans to withdraw roughly one-half of the American forces remaining in Afghanistan. It’s about time.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.