Tag: Editorials

Members of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association walk a picket line outside the Boston Sheraton Hotel, where the U.S. Conference of Mayors is holding their convention June 28, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Free trade pits Democratic Party’s past against its future

Washington Examiner · June 5, 2015 4:01 am

The new rule represents an attempt by the EPA to restore the near-universal power it wielded informally before the Supreme Court limited its activities last decade in two critical decisions. (Getty)

Energy and Environment

Congress should waive the new EPA rule

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2015 4:01 am

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to child care workers during a visit to the Center For New Horizons Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Hillary is inevitable no more

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2015 4:01 am

When the USA PATRIOT Act passed that year, no one, including its staunchest supporters, envisioned or discussed a blank-warrant system of indiscriminate government snooping on citizens. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

NSA — Not So Authorized

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2015 4:01 am

Supporters applaud during the minimum wage increase vote as the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2020, making it the largest city in the nation to do so, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes )

Minimum wage for thee, but not for me, say L.A. unions

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

The pretext for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's prosecutorial intervention in international soccer is the use of the American financial system and occasional travel by its perpetrators. (AP Photo)Â

Dear Europe, you’re welcome. Again.

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2015 4:12 am

Warren Buffett noted about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that a regulatory agency devoted to them made no difference. (AP)

IRS shows we’re all at the mercy of feds’ incompetence

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2015 5:07 am

President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. The leaders of the United States and Cuba held their first formal meeting in more than half a century on Saturday, clearing the way for a normalization of relations that had seemed unthinkable to both Cubans and Americans for generations. (AP Photo)

Cuba’s crackdown should make Obama think twice

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2015 9:00 am

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee March 4, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

How EPA flooded the zone on water rule

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2015 9:00 am

Third U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Pfc. Benjamin Feldbush of Stafford County, Va., places a flag in front of a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 21, 2015. "Flags In" is an annual tradition that is reserved for The Old Guard since its designation as the Army's official ceremonial unit in 1948. They conduct the mission annually at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery prior to Memorial Day to honor our nation's fallen military heroes. (AP Photo)

National Security

Remembrance

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, is shown in this video image, during his deposition on Feb. 3, 1999, during the House Managers presentation in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton Saturday, Feb. 6, 1999. (AP Photo/APTN)

National Security

Blumenthal’s hidden hand in Hillary’s State Department

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2015 9:00 am

Harvard uses a number of subtle ways to determine Asian ancestry in its admission process -- for example, asking applicants' parents' place of birth and mothers' maiden name. (AP Photo)Â

Harvard fairer to some than others

Washington Examiner · May 21, 2015 9:00 am