US, Afghan officials to talk to Taliban in Doha
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/18/13 10:25 AM
With gun-control bills stalled, Biden to tout administration’s go-it-alone approach
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/18/13 07:05 AM
Obama, Vladimir Putin agree to disagree on Syria
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/17/13 05:15 PM
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
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By MATTHEW LEE | 06/17/13 04:17 AM
Federal Reserve meeting begins amid uncertainty over monetary policy
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/18/13 04:00 PM
CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on the budget comes out tomorrow
By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Janet Yellen's ascendancy shows durability of Ben Bernanke's program
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/16/13 04:25 PM
By CONN CARROLL | 06/12/13 08:10 AM
Only you can prevent terrorists from starting forest fires
06/18/13 06:22 AM
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts up dukes and blunders into Syria
06/17/13 10:35 AM
Examiner Editorial: Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
06/13/13 06:45 PM
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Lawmakers seek credit monitoring for veterans
06/14/13 03:11 PM
UPDATED! Chinese, other nations hacked VA computers, officials can't account for everything stolen
By MARK FLATTEN | 06/04/13 02:40 PM
Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
Immigration bill enshrines program that lets foreigners get green cards in return for major investments The Senate immigration bill would create a permanent federal program allowing politically connected businessmen to...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/17/13 04:45 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has hired Charles Landgraf, who appears to be a currently registered lobbyist, as an adviser to help form policy on a product involved in mortgage lending called “force-place...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/17/13 08:35 AM
The farm bill moving through Congress today provides a great reminder of how Washington works: Whenever you see a government subsidy for some sympathetic cause or group -- such as the working man, green-energy,...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/17/13 01:15 AM
Under the Bush administration, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Mark Agrast worked hard to curtail U.S. government surveillance of individuals whom the government didn’t have a warrant to surveil. Agrast wrote...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/13/13 03:10 PM
For the first time ever, the federal government is suing a lobbyist for violating the Lobbying Disclosure Act: DOJ is taking an exceptional action in suing for large fines against an “habitual” violator of...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/13/13 03:00 PM
From The Diary of HL Mencken edited by Charles Fecher (NY: Alfred Knopf, 1989), p. 113: Baltimore October 12, 1938 Some time ago at a private gathering, Lewis [Dean Lewis (1874-1941) professor of surgery at the...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/13/13 02:10 PM
“Every one of those babies died in utero.” That was the closing argument of Kermit Gosnell’s defense attorney. Had the jury agreed with this question of fact, then the notorious late-term abortionist would have...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/13/13 12:50 PM
The Export-Import Bank is a government agency that uses taxpayer-backed financing to subsidize U.S. exports — mostly Boeing jets. President Obama, while he was a candidate, called it “little more than a fund for...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/12/13 05:05 PM
NSA leaker Edward Snowden didn't draw a paycheck from the federal government, but instead from a federal contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, which brought in $1.3 billion for its government intelligence work, nearly a...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/12/13 04:30 PM
The Federal Trade Commission weighed in D.C.’s proposed taxi rules — not flexing the feds’ authority over the District, but simply as an informed commenter on the proposed rules. Praising the rules that allow for...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/11/13 03:25 PM
Farmers take risks, buy things, sell things, borrow, invest, and try to make profits. But thanks to Congress, farming differs quite a bit from free-market capitalism. Let’s take a look for a second at the summary Brad...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/11/13 01:25 PM
David Bowen “was instrumental in shepherding President Obama’s landmark health care bill through the Senate as staff director for health of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions under...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/10/13 05:40 PM
Here’s a good point from blogger Matt Yglesias: I think the more interesting issue is how it alters the lobbying dynamic. An established government bureaucracy has, of course, considerable capacity to lobby on behalf...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/10/13 03:35 PM
Ken Salazar, President Obama’s Interior Secretary, has joined the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, also known as WilmerHale. Salazar, according to reports, will split time between Colorado (which...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/10/13 02:35 PM
Doug Scofield was chief of staff to Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat, until 2002. In 2003, Scofield took two consulting jobs: (1) Taxpayer-funded political consultant for Gutierrez’s office; (2) State-level...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/09/13 05:25 PM
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2009, "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." This line was creepy enough coming from one of President Obama's...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/06/13 05:25 PM
One federal agency that exists to subsidize U.S. exports dedicates a huge majority of its financing to subsidizing Boeing jets. It’s classic corporate welfare, in my view. Republicans say they believe in the free...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/06/13 01:40 PM
Liberal New York writer Jonathan Chait posits I have no idea what I’m talking about on immigration and health care. Among the many ways he says I’m wrong is when I reject his clear implication that Republicans...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/05/13 09:05 PM
When that Verizon guy asks “can you hear me now?” President Obama’s answer is “Yes We Can.” Glenn Greenwald has the astounding scoop about Obama continuing a reviled Bush practice: The National Security...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/05/13 06:30 PM
The game is rigged against the regular guy in America today. And it's rigged in favor of big business, the politically connected, and the wealthy. If Republicans and conservatives want to reform themselves, they need to...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/05/13 05:05 PM
In the midst the Left blogosphere’s meticulous and data-driven case that conservatives are a bunch of derps defending a bunch of bros, or something, liberal Matt Yglesias drops this interesting discussion: [B]oth the...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/05/13 04:45 PM
Liberal blogger Jonathan Chait at New York tries to defend Obamacare and attack its critics, but he keeps stumbling into obvious errors. His latest post drips with disdain. He writes that “House Republicans’ hatred...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/04/13 04:55 PM
“I would love to be characterized as a mini-Baucus,” Russ Sullivan, staff director for Sen. Max Baucus, told the Washington Post three years ago. “I’m doing my absolute dead-level best to think as much like...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/04/13 03:10 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, looking for help in roping young, healthy people into Obamacare’s exchanges, has gone, hat in hand, to top health care companies. Bloomberg names three of those...
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Washington Examiner's Tim Carney on special interests funding Obama's second inauguration
Washington Examiner Senior Political Columnist Tim Carney talks about how corporations with business before the federal government have donated heavily to President Obama's second inauguration, which is slated for Jan. 21.
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The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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