Tag: Washington Examiner

Sen. Dianne Feinstein isn't objecting to a fanatic who would replace the law with personal dictates. Feinstein thinks there's a limit to how sincere a Christian's beliefs are allowed to get before one is disqualified for public office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Dianne Feinstein and the Left revive religious tests

Washington Examiner · September 8, 2017 4:01 am

The result is less business activity and thus less stuff, fewer services, and fewer jobs. More businesses are tempted to set up shop overseas, and Trump in his speech in North Dakota rightly noted that lower rates would mean fewer companies choosing to operate offshore, outside America. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

The corporate tax rate is too damn high

Washington Examiner · September 7, 2017 4:01 am

By keeping the terms of DACA in place as policy for the next six months, the Trump administration has deliberately set the stage for a legislative deal that can finally give DACA recipients the certainty about their situation and their future that they deserve. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)

Will Democrats deal on DACA? Dream on

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2017 11:02 pm

After four years, most people have figured out whether they are one of the winners or one of the losers in the big experiment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Good riddance to a wasteful Obamacare promotion budget

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2017 4:01 am

According to a May 2016 Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans under the age of 30 have a positive view of socialism. So, this Labor Day, as leftists invite you to step along their pathway to a workers' utopia, let us consider what capitalism has already achieved for this country, and especially for its wage earners. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Labor Day, freedom, and the wreck of socialism

Washington Examiner · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

Generosity and voluntary sacrifice on the human, local, level ought to be the primary form of helping the needy. Government ought to come in only as a backstop. (iStock by Getty Images)

Tax deductions — the greatest of these is charity

Washington Examiner · September 3, 2017 4:01 am

At least to Trump, DACA's value is its use as a bargaining chip, a value that's gone if he eliminates DACA by executive order on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DACA deferred: Leave immigration reform to Congress

Washington Examiner · September 2, 2017 4:01 am

No serious person believes that climate policy could bring us into a brave new world of fewer hurricanes. And if the number of large hurricanes we get is determined by policy, Trump ought to do whatever George W. Bush did in 2006 that put the brakes on powerful hurricanes for a decade. (Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)

Energy and Environment

Hurricane Harvey and the climate change alarm bells

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2017 4:01 am

It's cynical to use the cover of emergency response to fund other priorities. Here, an elderly man is carried to dry ground as he evacuates a neighborhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Pass a Harvey emergency bill, not a pork bill

Washington Examiner · August 31, 2017 4:01 am

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un has blunted American optimism that he might be willing to trim his ballistic saber rattling. It is clear that further U.S. action is required to force him into constructive diplomacy. The time has come for the Trump administration to take action. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

It’s time to shoot down North Korean missiles

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2017 10:50 pm

The federal role will always be anterior, in time and in moral importance, to the local, voluntary, individual efforts. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

In Texas, good Samaritans make America great

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2017 9:03 pm

In this Feb. 1 file photo, a fire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Liberal professors and administrators will have to take the reins in permitting alternate viewpoints if order is to be restored to America's campuses. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Academia is heading off the Left cliff. Can it be steered to safety?

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2017 4:01 am