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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Washington Examiner: Opinion Digest for Tuesday, October 30, 2012


Washington Examiner: Opinion Digest for Tuesday, October 30, 2012



Examiner Editorial: If Obama wins, brace for a suicide dive off fiscal cliff

"Quite simply, the U.S. is the closest shark to the boat right now." That comment, from investment strategist Russ Koesterich to the...
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York: With week to go, Team Romney is upbeat about Ohio

Byron York
Jason Gloeckner, of Galena, Ohio, never told his wife, Jean, that he voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Never, that is, until a few days...
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Romney employs Obama tactics on autos. Obama cries foul.

Timothy P. Carney
The single biggest theme of President Obama’s reelection campaign has been a misleading attack-and-brag regarding the auto bailouts....
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No, Mitt Romney does not want to abolish FEMA

Conn Carroll
Ryan Grim, formerly of the Marijuana Policy Project, has a hit piece at The Huffington Post today accusing Mitt Romney of wanting to...
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Who's a racist?

Cal Thomas
On MSNBC's Ed Schultz program Friday night, the former chief of staff for Colin Powell, retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, said, of...
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Obama, Romney should have debated more substantive questions

Gregory Kane
What was up with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his Mr. Nice Guy act during that third and final debate with...
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Straight talk ahead of Election Day

Hugh Hewitt
Denver's "Wings Over the Rockies" air museum was the site for a gathering of 2,500 hard-core political junkies Saturday afternoon. Karl...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Call Senate back and pass a workable payroll tax deal and other news and opinion from the Washington Examiner

Call Senate back and pass a workable payroll tax deal and other news and opinion from the Washington Examiner

Call Senate back and pass a workable payroll tax deal

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, has suggested making Congress a part-time legislature. Whatever you think of the idea, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has already given us something approximating it by sending his members home without a proper payroll tax deal written into law. By passing an unworkable two-month deal as a "take-it-or-leave-it" proposition, then heading home, Reid has acted very much in the tradition of Obamacare, the massive and hastily assembled health care law whose drafting errors will haunt Americans until it is finally repealed.

If America is the battleground, nobody has any rights

Last Thursday -- which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights -- the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties. Given the opportunity to clarify existing law and confirm that American citizens are not subject to indefinite military detention at the order of the president -- Congress punted.

Examiner Local Editorial: Metro hikes fees as ridership plummets

Just a year after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority imposed its largest, most complicated fare increase ever -- introducing "peak of the peak" into the Washington commuting lexicon - Metro General Manager Richard Sarles is seeking another 5.7 percent fare hike. But passengers have already begun to flee the toxic combination of rising fares, shoddy service, maintenance delays and deteriorating infrastructure.

Death of an atheist

Perhaps not since Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Carl Sagan has there been such an "evangelical" atheist as Christopher Hitchens, the writer and social commentator who died last week after a long and public battle with esophageal cancer. Hitchens railed against those who believe in God. While an original writer, and smart, there was nothing original about his unbelief. Such views have been expressed since the dawn of humanity.

Protecting liberty means knowing your Bill of Rights

By: Janine Turner
Americans celebrated the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights last week. This document is the cornerstone of our individual freedoms.

It's California business as usual as debt, taxes grow

By: Bob Williams
Last week, the California Department of Finance confirmed that the state's fiscal year revenues through June will come in $2.2 billion short of expectations, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to implement $1 billion in budget cuts.

Gallup 'fear' poll, the GPS case and the Ninth Amendment

By: Mark J. Fitzgibbons
In November, the government made the Orwellian argument before the Supreme Court that law enforcement officials may attach GPS tracking devices to cars without a warrant. This month, Gallup issued poll results showing that 64 percent of Americans fear big government. Well, gee whiz.

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Washington Examiner Opinion Digest: Washington conducts public business for private gain and other stories

Washington conducts public business for private gain and other stories from the Washington Examiner Opinion Digest


Washington conducts public business for private gain

By Examiner Editorial
Examiner Editorial
It's not been a good week for those whose livelihoods depend on either having access to the power brokers and decision makers of the Washington federal establishment or being one of them.

What is the Pentagon hiding in Iraq, Afghanistan spending?

By Diana West
When the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan closed shop on Sept. 30, it reported its "sobering but conservative" estimate that U.S. taxpayers had lost between $31 billion and $60 billion in waste and fraud out of the $…

The Declaration of Independence defines our principles

By Star Parker
Star Parker
It is encouraging news that the Supreme Court has decided to consider the constitutionality of key provisions of Obamacare.
By the end of next summer, we'll know if the federal government can force individuals to buy health insurance and if they c…

Sunday Reflection: Americans want more than Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street can deliver

By Doug Schoen
Both the Tea Party movement and to a much greater extent, the Occupy Wall Street movement, have vocalized some frustrations that are shared by a broad mass of the American people — suspicion of Wall Street and crony capitalism.

Our children deserve a real fight against child abuse

By Diane Dimond

This won’t be 2008 all over again, Barack

By Bill O'Reilly

Why not Huntsman?

By Steve Chapman
Steve Chapman

New immigration rules are cynical political move

By Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez




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Monday, November 07, 2011

Washington Examiner Daily Political Digest: Timothy P. Carney - Conservatives shouldn't play the race card, either

 

Washington Examiner Daily Political Digest

 
Timothy P. Carney - Conservatives shouldn't play the race card, either             
 
The last things conservatives should want to do is lend some legitimacy to the race card.
 
Byron York: Why Santorum runs             
 
Santorum likes to call himself "the William F. Buckley candidate," referring to Buckley's dictum that conservatives should support the most conservative candidate who is also electable.  "We think we're the most electable conservative," Santorum tells the Fairfield group.
 
 
Susan Ferrechio - White House rebuffs GOP subpoena on Solyndra loan 
 
It's a familiar piece of political theater in Washington: Congress subpoenas the White House demanding information. The White House refuses to comply, asserting executive privilege. To avoid the courts, the two sides often strike a deal that pleases neither of them. And it's happening again.
 
Byron York: How Gingrich wins by debating Cain             
 
The Gingrich-Cain debate pitted the candidate with the most detailed policy knowledge against the candidate with the least detailed knowledge.  It was a good thing for Cain that it was a friendly encounter; if Gingrich had wanted to run circles around Cain, he could have.
 
 
Michael Barone: Can Cain keep flouting rules of politics?             
 
Cain's stance as a non-politician who refuses to obey the rules of the great game of politics is at least momentarily a political asset in a year when opinion about conventional politicians of both parties is
 
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Washington Examiner Daily Political Digest: Michael Barone - Adult leadership comes from the House, not Obama


Washington Examiner Daily Political Digest

 
Let's take our eyes off the Republican presidential race for a minute and ask the question, where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year?
The answer, I think, is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders.
Brian Hughes - Obama faces changing tide in Virginia
When President Obama rolls into Virginia Tuesday for the next stop of his national jobs tour, he won't necessarily be welcomed warmly in a state that propelled him to a landslide victory in 2008.

Byron York - GOP will move to repeal CLASS Act  
 
Republicans on Capitol Hill are having an I-told-you-so moment after the Obama administration admitted late Friday that the CLASS Act, a major component of Obamacare, is unworkable.
 
Nearly half of the deficit reduction that Democrats claimed when President Obama signed the national health care law would be wiped away by the administration's recomendation against implementing a doomed long-term care program.

Joel Gehrke - Schultz says 'break' is a 'southern racist term'
 
Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC's the Ed Show, believes that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain is pandering to "white Republicans out there who don't like black folks" and accused Sen. Jim Demint, R-S.C., of using racist langauge in his opposition to Obamacare.

Conn Carroll - The Center for Tax Hike Advocacy
Jonathan Chait has responded to a post earlier this week criticizing him for using a Citizens for Tax Justice "study" on state and local tax burdens in the course of a debate over federal tax rates.

Charlie Spiering digs into the GOP Presidential field's new FEC numbers:

Mitt Romney raises $14.2 million in third quarter

Joel Gehrke - Ron Paul camp whines about Drudge coverage
Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report apparently offended Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, by leading with a poll that showed Newt Gingrich surpassing Rick Perry, instead of focusing more on - well, Ron Paul.

"Plants like this are churning out groundbreaking cars like the Chevy Sonic, the only one of its kind made and sold in the United States of America." said President Obama, at a General Motors plant, after touting the success of the auto-industry bailouts.

Timothy P. Carney - The lobbyists volunteering to raise $ for Romney
A "bundler" is basically a volunteer fundraiser. Campaign finance restrictions limited how much an individual could give a candidate, and so one way for power-brokers to win the love of politcians is to show up with a ton of $2,500 checks. As you might guess, lobbyists see bundling a worthwhile activity.

Charlie Spiering - Rep. Sanchez: Republicans don't love this country
On Ed Schultz's radio show earlier this week, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) told him that Republicans "were not patriots" because they didn't want to p
Timothy P. Carney - Tommy Thompson's shilling for a biotech client
Last month, former Health & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced he was seeking the GOP nomination for Wisconsin's open U.S. Senate seat. A week before that, though, Thompson was discussing the 9/11 anniversary on the air, and he promoted an anthrax vaccine that happens to be made by one of his consulting clients, PharmAthene.

Charlie Spiering - S. Korean president sports Tigers hat in Detroit
"As you can see, President Lee is a pretty good politician," joked President Obama, as he began a joint press conference in Detroit. "He knows how to get on your good side."

Well, this seems interesting. President Obama has apparently sent about 100 U.S. troops to hunt down a warlord in Uganda.

Democrats on the DNC mailing list received an email from Chelsea Clinton last night, promoting her father's Clinton Foundation.  
 
Conn Carroll - Park Police turn blind eye to 'Occupiers' illegal sleepovers
It is against federal regulations to sleep in National Capital Parks like McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, but the U.S. Park Police is turning a blind eye to the protesters sleeping there.

Philip Klein - Why I won’t stop worrying and learn to love Romney
During his radio show yesterday, Examiner contributor Hugh Hewitt complained about what he termed as my “vitriolic” criticism of Mitt Romney. This shouldn’t come as a major shock, because I’ve been a vocal critic of Romney, and Hewitt has been a long-time booster who published an adoring book promoting Romney’s candidacy the first time he ran for president. Yet at no point did Hewitt challenge the substance of anything I’ve actually written. Instead, he took issue with the very idea that I, as a conservative commentator, would be so critical of a Republican candidate.


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