Tag: Editorials

Let there be no confusion: The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech offensive enough to motivate a coercive response. (AP Photo)Â

Attack in Garland is an assault on free speech

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2015 9:00 am

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt healthcare premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obamacare exchanges are not cheap to build or run

Washington Examiner · May 4, 2015 9:00 am

The U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center is shown in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo)

More VA cover-ups

Washington Examiner · May 1, 2015 9:00 am

A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on July 30, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

American malaise

Washington Examiner · April 30, 2015 9:00 am

Only the rule of law can save Baltimore

Only the rule of law can save Baltimore

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2015 9:00 am

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows that only 75 percent of Democrats believe Clinton to be "honest and trustworthy" (17 percent say she is not) yet between 85 and 90 percent plan to vote for her, depending on which Republican she faces. (AP Photo)

Dems will put up with a scoundrel, but not a loser

Washington Examiner · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

Ahead of tax season, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen warned that taxpayers would suffer longer waits on the phone, receive less help from the agency, and experience a delay in refunds because of the budget cuts Congress passed. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Don’t reward IRS malingering

Washington Examiner · April 27, 2015 9:00 am

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton appear together on stage during a plenary session at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Appearance of propriety continues to elude the Clintons

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2015 9:00 am

President Obama shakes hands with Bill Nye, The Science Guy, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s climate change hypocrisy highlights lack of faith

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2015 9:00 am

Americans of all races and political stripes reacted with outrage at the videotaped choke-hold that led to the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island. And there is almost no racial divide in public opinion regarding the outrageous videotaped police shooting of the unarmed, fleeing Walter Scott in South Carolina. (AP Photo)

Why police shootings matter for everyone

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2015 9:00 am

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama railed against free trade, suggesting even that the North American Free Trade Agreement (by then 14 years old) should be renegotiated. (AP File Photo)

Congress should ignore Hillary, pursue trade agreements with optimism

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2015 9:00 am

Thousands of Americans find their property placed in limbo by more or less arbitrary government seizures. (AP Photo)

Government should stop seizing property of the innocent

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2015 9:00 am