Outside the Beltway

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

Maryland and the District of Columbia are suing President Trump based on alleged violations of two provisions of the Constitution that have never been litigated before.

Lt. General Michael Flynn is declining to comply with a Congressional subpoena regarding the Russia investigation, and invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment.

The Trump White House knew Michael Flynn was under investigation and named him National Security Adviser anyway.

Another day, another allegation against the President. This time, though, it’s very, very serious.

Everywhere one turns, it seems, there’s Russia.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

By a narrow margin, Turks voted for some significant changes.

More trouble for Lt. General Michael Flynn.

Despite American air strikes, ISIS is expanding its power amid the chaos in Libya.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

More conflicts of interest for the Trump Administration.

The Cock-a-Doodle Do It My Way Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

Ambassador Karlov is mostly likely not a modern day Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Another attack in what has been a bloody 2016 for Europe.

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

The Truth and Consequences Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As God is my witness……..

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

Turkey has issued a formal apology to Russia over the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had briefly strayed into Turkish airspace.

Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.

A political cartoonist for The Washington Post crossed a line and, rightfully, got condemned for it.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.

NATO is extending full membership to the tiny nation of Montenegro, and there doesn’t seem to be a good reason why they’re doing it.

The British Parliament has approved expansion of that countries airstrikes into Syria, but it’s unclear just how much of an impact that will have on the ground.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Tensions between Russia and Turkey remain high in the wake of yesterday’s incident, but there are some signs that things are starting to cool down.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

A Saturday night debate wasn’t likely to get much attention to begin with. A Saturday night debate in the wake of a major terrorist attack, and a major football game for Iowa’s premier college football team, likely got even less attention. That’s probably good news for Hillary Clinton, and bad news for her two remaining rivals.

In the wake of President Obama’s to send Special Forces to Syria, a new poll finds the public doesn’t like the idea very much.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.