Outside the Beltway

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

They’re not nearly as customer-friendly as they used to be.

The Pope is siding with evil.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

Some stories I didn’t get around to blogging over the past week.

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

France shines new light on an old problem.

The real media bias.

Hubris has set back the cause of science.

President Biden’s dangerous gambit seems to have succeeded.

Setting the tone.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

A more dangerous world is changing the relationship.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

The will of the majority can prevail even in a skewed system.

How long rather than how many?

The social platform beloved of the intellectual class is about to undergo radical change.

They’re a bloc but also not.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

How a hideous, diabolical, pestilential, God-abandoned hellhole became our 3rd largest state.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

A shameful stunt reminiscent of an even darker era.

Stuff from last week and over the weekend that might be of interest.

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

Pfizer and Moderna will soon roll out protection against newer strains.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

With the government throwing its hands up, it’s now up to the citizenry.

For your consideration.

So, what now?

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

Could Alaska point the way to a solution?

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

The President continues his recent penchant for saying the quiet part out loud.

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

For your consideration.

There are many barriers to true freedom.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.