Outside the Beltway

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Stories, links, and brief observations from the week that never grew into posts.

Quick takes from the week.

Yet another thing driving Americans apart.

The post really isn’t about Sinema as much as it about a theory of poltiics.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

My contribution to a continuing debate.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The saga continues.

A powerful symbol has been robbed of its significance.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

The latest front on the war on truth.

The reaction to the pandemic has long since been about much more than the pandemic.

The numbers are staggering and getting worse.

The CDC is green-lighting much, much more activity for the fully-vaccinated (with some caveats).

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

We need to rethink traffic stops.

An interesting but uneven debate.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

Overruling every case President Trump was involved in is getting silly.

There’s no voting in baseball.

Vaccinations are not keeping up with recklessness.

The GA GOP is butting heads with corporations over HB202

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

What at first blush appears a case of hypocrisy and cancel culture is a violation of professional ethics.

A mass shooting in Atlanta draws attention to a problem of which I was only tangentially aware.

Any “fair” drawing of districts will yield a GOP advantage over time.

An interesting blast from the past.

Yet another example.

Ted Cruz is at it again.

Foolish lies are for foolish liars.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

The politics of bait-and-switch.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

This feels like resignation territory.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

The reflections on the departed right-wing talk host continue.

The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.

It is really so hard to understand that you don’t go on vacation during a massive disaster?

The 97-year-old former Senator and Presidential candidate is ill.