Joel Gehrke
Commentary Writer
Joel Gehrke is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
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
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
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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06/05/13 06:15 PM
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
05/25/13 08:50 PM
Joel Gehrke is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
By Joel Gehrke | 05/30/13 04:45 PM
Former President George W. Bush expressed skepticism of the current push for immigration reform, warning Republicans not to adopt a measure just because they hope it will help them at the polls, although he still believes that reform is necessary. “I think the atmosphere, unlike when I tried...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/30/13 01:10 PM
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., knocked a proposal from Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., that Chicago law enforcement round up the members of a powerful gang as an “elitist white boy solution” to the crime problem in that city. “[It's an] upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/29/13 07:10 PM
Media outlets that refuse to participate in an off-the-record meeting with Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder about the Justice Department’s surveillance of journalists surrender their ‘right to gripe’ about the government investigations, according to a Democratic spokesman. The New York...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/29/13 05:05 PM
Lately, reporters have asked President Obama’s spokesman about the editing of Benghazi talking points, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, the Justice Department’s surveillance of the media — including one Fox News reporter dubbed a “co-conspirator” — and Health and Human...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/29/13 11:55 AM
IRS officials continued their targeting of conservative groups until as recently as the first week of May, according to a non-profit law firm, when a top agency official apologized for the targeting and claimed that the practice had been stopped a year earlier. “We received a letter [from...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/28/13 07:05 PM
President Obama’s top economic adviser, Alan Kruegman, is leaving his White House job to teach at Princeton University, the White House Press Office announced today. “I am deeply grateful to President Obama for the opportunity to serve twice in this Administration, and for the chance to do...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/28/13 06:10 PM
Two State Department officials were injured this morning during a shooting at a strip club in Venezuela this morning, but the State Department told reporters that neither injury is “life-threatening.” “We can confirm that two members of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas were injured during an...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/28/13 05:30 PM
Public Policy Polling has raised liberal hopes of defeating Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., by showing him tied with a potential Democratic rival, but they might want to contain their glee: The survey paradoxically reveals a dramatic increase in his approval rating compared to the...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/28/13 02:50 PM
Chinese hackers gained access to some of the top weapons systems in the United States military, especially those that project American power in the Pacific, according to a Pentagon report prepared by a Defense Department advisory council, a topic that President Obama’s spokesman said would be...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/24/13 03:05 PM
President Obama called for Congress to end the “foolish” budget cuts required under sequestration, arguing that lawmakers should feel empowered because “deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades.” “I’ll keep fighting to end those foolish across-the-board budget cuts known...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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By David M. Drucker | 06/16/13
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
By Byron York | 06/18/13
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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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What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.
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