Outside the Beltway

Has China finally had enough of North Korea?

Judge Gorsuch is now Justice Gorsuch and it’s time to hit the ground running.

Another step toward making it easier to cut the cord.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

After just sixty-six days, there are some disturbing patterns emerging from the Trump Administration.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

An apparent terror attack outside Parliament in London.

Republicans in Congress are slavishly seeking to divert attention from wrongdoing by Donald Trump, or Russia.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she will formally invoke Article 50 of the European Union treaty on March 29th, thus officially beginning a Brexit process likely to take years.

Donald Trump isn’t going to change, and that’s bad news for all of us.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Ben Carson is back and he’s saying some pretty dumb things again.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Donald Trump took to Twitter again this morning with predictable results.

The tu quoque presidency rocks on.

My latest is out at RealClearDefense.

The Supreme Court will now consider a case regarding whether or not a state can bar a former felon from accessing social media sites.

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

The Trump Administration is continuing, and indeed expanding, its war on a free press.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

If you changed the channel after the third quarter, you missed what ended up becoming a game for the ages.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

A Super Bowl ad will cost you a cool $5,000,000 for thirty seconds.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

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

Nice work, Mr. President.

Trump’s tweet may have been casual bluster posted while sitting at the breakfast table (presumably eating Wheaties®—The Breakfast of Champions). We can’t know. And finally it matters not because what really matters is that it was taken at face value by President Peña Nieto.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

Police must be seen as neutral protectors of the peace.

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