Donald Trump should push the nuclear button. No, not the one that launches actual nuclear weapons. I mean the one that blows up Democratic obstruction to his Supreme Court nominee and puts a reliable conservative on the court to replace justice Antonin Scalia. There is no reason for Trump and Senate Republicans not to go nuclear. Senate Democrats have already...

As British Prime Minister Theresa May becomes the first foreign leader to visit President Trump, it is a good time to consider that Margaret Thatcher, much more than Ronald Reagan, is the real model for the Trump presidency. Trump’s inaugural address last Friday had the directness and confrontational tone of a Thatcher speech. The president was clear that he stood...

President Trump’s temporary ban on entry into the U.S. by various categories of aliens has caused a firestorm. That owes in part to the rash implementation of perfectly legal restrictions, but the hysteria is out of proportion to the minimal harm actually done. One of the most dismaying parts of the debate has been the banter over whether Trump has...

I’m beginning to get a sense of what it was like to be alive in ancient times when a marauding warlord melted down your village’s golden calf. Weeping. Gnashing of teeth. Rending of garments. Wearing of vagina hats. Their god failed to protect the village, and now he’s a bracelet on the warlord’s wrist. It’s pathetic, really, the emotional reaction...

When I first took my two aged, beloved beagles to the incompetent veterinarian, I didn’t make much of the fact that his practice adjoined an ethnic butcher shop. Once he’d muddled the diagnosis of both dogs, left one untreated for a kidney infection till he lost all bladder control, and tried to pressure me into a useless, dangerous surgery on...

On Saturday, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer created a media firestorm by fibbing about sizes of inauguration crowds. After calling a press conference to claim that Trump’s inauguration had the largest audience in history, both “in person and around the globe,” Spicer tore into the media for their supposed falsehoods; Spicer specifically referenced D.C. Metro figures, fencing and magnetometer placement,...

The Atlantic Called Fetal Heartbeats ‘Imaginary.’ Twitter Responded. The Washington, D.C.-based magazine is receiving backlash after publishing a story about ultrasounds Tuesday morning. The Atlantic is receiving backlash on Twitter after publishing a story about ultrasounds Tuesday morning. The story went up at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the title “How Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus is a Person.” The...

The flow of young professionals into Philadelphia has flattened, according to JLL Research, while apartment rents have started to soften in a number of big cities because of a glut of new construction geared toward urban newcomers who haven’t arrived. Apartment rents in San Francisco, Washington, Denver, Miami and New York are moderating or even declining from a year ago,...

Source: Listen, ladies, and you will find hope – Washington Times Their anger was palpable, displayed ugly and raw on homemade signs in the Women’s March on Washington. Hatred spewed from their mouths and expressions, so potent that, at times, it seemed as if they might spontaneously combust. Many of these women lashed out from deep childhood wounds or past...

Source: Embracing school choice doesn’t mean abandoning public education | Washington Examiner Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of education, will begin her Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday evening. The nomination of DeVos, who supports school choice, has renewed the national discussion over the importance of opportunity in K-12 education. If you were to listen only to the national-level...