Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

A major announcement from NASA in the search for possible life outside the Solar System.

Budget hawks in the GOP face a showdown with Donald Trump’s spending ambitions this year that will likely decide whether we’ll ever get spending under control.

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled against a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding.

The President gathered supporters around him, and blatantly lied to them, so as to increase support for his policies.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

Chaos inside the Trump Administration is causing people to turn down lucrative positions.

The apparent assassination of Kim Jong-Un’s eldest brother has raised red flags in China.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

The President’s choice for Labor Secretary withdrew his name from consideration yesterday, but this is just the latest example of what has been a transition that has largely consisted of fumble after fumble by the Trump team.

The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.

After a year long experiment, Playboy is bringing nudity back.

Could Donald Trump’s comments about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the campaign trail lead to the case against Bergdahl being dismissed? A military judge will have to decide.

North Korean Intrigue…….

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

All the effects of a wall, given its cost, needs to be taken into consideration.

Stephen Miller said something very stupid on “Meet The Press” this morning.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

There are growing signs that the Deep State is seeking to thwart legal orders from President Trump. This is dangerous.

Trump’s combination amateur hour/tough guy approach is not going to make the world a safer place, nor will it advance US national interest.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

By the end of last night’s oral argument, at least two of the three judges hearing the appeal of the stay on the President’s Muslim travel ban appeared to be skeptical of the Federal Government’s arguments.

There were 111.3 million people tuned into the Super Bowl on Sunday, slightly lower than last year.

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

Two Republican Senators are introducing legislation that would result in drastic reductions in the number of people allowed into the country legally.

Senate Democrats are set to almost unanimously oppose virtually all of the Trump Cabinet nominees yet to be voted on.