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In the debate over bathroom access for transgendered persons, the best solution is not to expand government power, but limit municipal overreach. Those in favor of precluding cities from social justice do-goodism should embrace solutions such as Texas’s CSHB 2899, which limits municipal power— rather than an unworkable attempt by the state to police bathroom access.

It should be no surprise that the best solution to the transgender bathroom controversy is to limit rather than expand government power. Texas and other concerned state legislatures should assert their authority as creators of their municipalities to limit the ability of their municipalities to engage in such civic mischief.

There is no principled conservative objection to the privately financed Texas Central Rail project, but those trying to kill the project ARE violating several conservative principles.

The Senate filibuster emerged in the 1800s and has evolved over time.  It originally made the Senate a more deliberative body, but a change in 1975 has made it less deliberative.

Leaders on the Hill, in industry and some in public health praised Trump's pick of Gottlieb — a former FDA and CMS official, who's also a physician and a prominent health policy commentator — to run the agency. "The reason I voted through my objections with Trump is that a presidential election selects a team, not one person," said Tom Giovanetti, head of the conservative Institute of Policy Innovation. "Scott Gottlieb is another example."

Republicans are getting perilously close to losing the momentum they had and will need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

“But the reason Obama was hit with so many more unanimous decisions was because he went rogue early on, asking his staff to look for novel theories that would allow him to move forward with implementing his agenda,” writes Merrill Matthews for Rare. “And if that meant twisting the Constitution—and basic logic—to get it, so what?”

If Trump does not respond firmly, he will permanently compromise his ability to manage the mammoth entity for which he is now responsible.

The public seems unconcerned about Obama claims that Russians hacked the U.S. election because they have been lied to so often by this administration that they no longer believe what it says.

It is time for Congress to reinforce the limits imposed on executive power while preserving the power of the people’s branch of government.