Joel Gehrke
Commentary Writer
Joel Gehrke is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
Germany visit showcases a tale of two Obamas
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
Obama thwarted: 'No indication' he will win back House
By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 11:30 AM
Obama dismisses Bush comparisons, defends Syria response
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 10:10 AM
By DAVID ESPOERICA WERNER | 06/19/13 04:33 AM
By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/18/13 07:05 AM
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
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 PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 07:30 PM
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
05/25/13 08:50 PM
Joel Gehrke is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
By Joel Gehrke | 05/21/13 07:35 PM
Senate Democrats withdrew a pro-LGBT amendment to the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill due to fears that the legislation would prove fatal to the larger immigration package. “It is with a heavy heart,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said, that “I will withhold the Leahy...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/21/13 04:25 PM
CIA officials do not have to release images of Osama bin Laden taken after his death at the hands of Navy Seals, a federal court ruled today, citing the likelihood that the images would provoke a terrorist attack. “As one of the judges on this panel suggested that the Benghazi attack was...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/21/13 01:50 PM
President Obama’s spokesman, to the irritation of the White House press corps, accounted for the shifting narrative about the White House team’s knowledge of the IRS scandal by pointing the finger back at the media for failing ask the right questions to get more information.
By Joel Gehrke | 05/21/13 01:45 PM
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reminded reporters of the conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate in an attempt to dodge questions about the current scandals dominating the Washington news cycle.
By Joel Gehrke | 05/20/13 02:50 PM
President Obama did not hear of the IRS scandal until the agency apologized for targeting conservatives because his White House counsel and other senior staff agreed he should not be informed, his spokesman said today, adding that Obama thought they made the right decision in not telling him....
By Joel Gehrke | 05/16/13 12:30 PM
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., charged Republicans with “exploiting” the questions surrounding the Benghazi talking points, the AP phone records seizure and the IRS scandal to attack President Obama because “they fear” his agenda and eloquence. “This president — they...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/16/13 11:55 AM
Rep. Jason Chaffetz faulted President Obama’s team for releasing only “a small smidgeon” of 25,000 pages of documents about the Benghazi talking points, including one unclassified email that proves State Department leadership knew immediately that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/16/13 09:35 AM
IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status to two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/15/13 03:40 PM
Attorney General Eric Holder said that the results of the FBI investigation into who carried out the Benghazi terrorist attack will be released shortly. “We will be prepared shortly I think to reveal all that we have done,” Holder told the House Judiciary Committee. The investigation is...
By Joel Gehrke | 05/15/13 02:55 PM
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that he doesn’t know why the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records in the manner that it did because he wasn’t involved in the preparation of the subpoena because he was interviewed as a possible source of the national security...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
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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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