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...

Source: Democrats’ Post-Election Temper-Tantrums Continue – Susan Stamper Brown King Solomon once wrote in Proverbs 19:13 the most annoying sound on the planet was a nagging wife, but obviously, he’d never heard what leftists sound like after they lose elections. Trump Derangement Syndrome will be around for years to come folks, so it might be wise to invest in a...

by Peggy Noonan, wsj.com January 20, 2017 His message to America: Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all. I was more moved than I expected. Then more startled. The old forms and traditions, the bands and bunting, endured. I thought, as I watched the inauguration: It continues. There were pomp and splendor,...

Soon-to-be-Former (hooray!) President Obama made history this week. He became the first President in history to commute the prison sentence of a fictitious person who was never convicted of a crime. PFC Bradley Manning sits in a cell at Leavenworth, convicted of espionage. But according to all the news reports on the story, Obama has decided to let Chelsea Manning...

Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course. In the 10 weeks since his surprise election as the nation’s 45th president, Trump has violated decades of established diplomatic protocol, sent shockwaves through business boardrooms, tested long-standing ethics rules and continued...

Fake news or conspiracy theory? Or the most epic troll since Dan Rather was conned into accepting forged documents about George Bush? Or a hilarious amalgam of all three? All elements of this story are as yet unknown, but what is unfolding has the makings of historical high comedy. Here’s a rundown. Buzzfeed, a website whose specialty is celebrity tittle-tattle,...