Senate Should Go Nuclear
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...
Margaret Thatcher is the real model for the Trump presidency
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 f...
Views on Abortion Strain Calls for Unity at Women’s March on Washington
Now these tensions, which have simmered behind the scenes, are spilling out into the open. On Monday, march organizers revoked so-called partnership status – a kind of official recognition — for a Tex...
Is It a Muslim Ban?
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 hys...
Executive Order on Refugees – Separating Fact from Hysteria
To read the online commentary, one would think that President Trump just fundamentally corrupted the American character. You would think that the executive order on refugees he signed yesterday betray...
This is What Post-Christian Dissent Looks Like
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...
Planned Parenthood and Prenatal Care
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 bot...
Memo to Media: It’s Not About You
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 larg...
Backlash to Story That Calls Fetal Heartbeats Imaginary
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...
Cities Reach Peak Millennial
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...
Women’s March – Rebecca Hagelin
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 mout...
School Choice and Public Education
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 c...
