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Thursday’s Forum – Outside the Beltway
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (79+ words) For our MDF resident Kathy, is Mexico going cashless? I have ties to Iceland and the Baltics where cash, what is that? I also understand more than most Americans the political corruption in Mexico over the decades (I grew up…...
Tuesday’s Forum – Outside the Beltway
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (168+ words) I live in a state that had acknowledged (systemic) voter fraud in 2004 (WA). Like entire memory care facilities voting. Ballots being "found" up to a week after the election. Very sketchy (Governor's race was under 500 votes and 3 or so recounts)....
Saturday’s Forum – Outside the Beltway
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (292+ words) James Joyner " Saturday, March 21, 2026 " 1 comment Ol" Donny Trump Has Really Stepped in It This Time (Ryan Cooper @ The American Prospect) The developing situation in the region is that Iran is consolidating formal control over the strait" Only nations that have…...
Wednesday’s Forum – Outside the Beltway
1+ week, 1+ day ago (236+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Wednesday, March 18, 2026 " 1 comment Jackson-Kavanaugh tensions surface in candid exchange over Supreme Court "shadow docket" (Fox News, 10 March) "Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh had a dispute over the high court"s approach to its emergency docket in a…...
Airports in Chaos as Congress Plays Games
1+ week, 2+ day ago (331+ words) James Joyner " Tuesday, March 17, 2026 " No comments NYT (Security Lines Snake Out of More Terminals as T.S.A. Goes Unpaid): Travelers at a growing number of U.S. airports are encountering shuttered security checkpoints and waiting hours in lines that extend well outside the terminals…...
Friday the 13th Forum
1+ week, 6+ day ago (84+ words) OTB relies on its readers to support it. Please consider helping by becoming a monthly contributor through'Patreon'or making a one-time contribution via'PayPal. Thanks for your consideration. Friday the 13th Forum OTB relies on its readers to support it. Please consider helping…...
Monday’s Forum – Outside the Beltway
2+ week, 3+ day ago (591+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Monday, March 9, 2026 " 11 comments People experimenting with Claude (the AI) say it's likely Claude identified the girl's school in Iran as a target. (Based on the type of building, nearness to military buildings, and distance from residential areas). This…...
Record Number of Congressmen Not Running for Re-Election
2+ week, 4+ day ago (795+ words) James Joyner " Saturday, March 7, 2026 " 6 comments NPR (The record-setting pace of retirements from Congress continues, led by Republicans): One in eight members of Congress now say they plan to leave their current seats after this election cycle, the second-highest total in…...
SaturTabs – Outside the Beltway
2+ week, 5+ day ago (968+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Saturday, March 7, 2026 " 2 comments The fantasy that we are always offered at the beginning is that we can choose what it is we are going to do " that we can control the situation we are going to create.And…...
Another Bad Jobs Report
2+ week, 5+ day ago (591+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Friday, March 6, 2026 " 13 comments The NYT reports: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy A weaker-than-expected report for February showed a decline of 92,000 jobs, and a rise in the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent. For anyone not trained…...