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Conn Carroll is a senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner and the author of its daily "Morning Examiner" feature and e-newsletter. His expertise and interests include immigration, administrative law, energy and federal regulation.

He has previously written for National Journal's The Hotline and served as assistant director for strategic communications for the Heritage Foundation. At Heritage, he created the rapid-response blog The Foundry and the foundation's Morning Bell email newsletter.

A native of Oakland, Calif., he is a graduate of the George Mason University Law School and was a member of the D.C. Bar.

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  • Morning Examiner: Left and right strategize over Obamacare’s failure

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, Apr 12, 2013

    Obamacare has been a complete and total failure from day one. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius cancelled the law’s government-run long-term care insurance program, the CLASS Act, last year after she admitted it was financially unsustainable and Congress formally repealed...

  • Joe Scarborough uses false al Qaeda talking point to push gun control

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    Thursday morning on NBC, Joe Scarbarough continued his relentless campaign for more gun control by repeating the false propaganda of American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn. From Morning Joe: Joe Scarborough: This is what al Qaeda has to say, yeah listen to this. Mika Brzezinski: Yeah,...

  • Yes, Obama’s chained CPI proposal is a tax hike

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    Last night on Twitter I received from push back from followers after I asserted that one reason conservatives should oppose President Obama’s vhained CPI cuts to Social Security is that such a policy change would also amount to a tax hike on many middle-class families. It is. Here is how...

  • Morning Examiner: Obama’s tax, spend, borrow, and redistribute budget

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    President Obama has made a big show of the fact that his fiscal year 2014 budget supposedly cuts the debt by $1.8 trillion and cuts Social Security by adopting a new way of measuring inflation. Unfortunately, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Obama’s debt savings are only half what...

  • The utter insanity of the Gang of Ocho’s amnesty plan in just one sentence

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    National Review‘s Katrino Trinko has been handed some talking points by the Gang of Ocho on their impending amnesty plan. Please do go read the whole thing. Just as Obamacare twisted itself in knots trying to make a big government takeover of health care appear to be market-based reforms, the...

  • Senate GOP demands Gang of Ocho detail their welfare spending

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    There may be wide-spread disagreement in the conservative movement about which issues the Republican Party should evolve on, but there is one stance that no one on the right is backing down from: the federal government must spend less money. So it is no surprise that cost has become an early...

  • TEXT: Sen. Rand Paul’s speech at Howard University

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    Below are the remarks, as prepared for delivery by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at Howard University on April 10, 2013: I’d like to thank President Ribeau, the Howard University faculty, and students for having me today. Some people have asked if I’m nervous about speaking at Howard. They say...

  • Morning Examiner: DeMint vs Rubio for the soul of the Republican Party

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    A battle has been brewing in the Republican Party for some time, long before President Obama was re-elected this past November. On one side is the big business Washington establishment represented by K Street lobbyists and the Chamber of Commerce. On the other side are populist, main street,...

  • Unions and rich environmentalists unite to kill jobs in California again

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Last month, The Washington Examiner‘s California in Crisis series detailed how the California Environmental Quality Act has become a job-killing “morass of uncertainty” for private developers and government agencies alike. Today, The San Jose Mercury News, shares such a story: Take the...


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