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Senior Editorial Writer, Washington Examiner. Author of Conservative Survival in the Romney Era.

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  • Bush’s costly Medicare legacy

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    President Bush’s legacy has received renewed attention as the result of the opening of his presidential library. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin uses a new poll showing Bush’s approval rating creeping up to 47 percent as a jumping off point for a full-throated defense of his time in...

  • Philip Klein: Obamacare reshuffles immigration debate

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Next year's implementation of President Obama's health care law will have myriad effects on the nation's economy and health care system. But it also throws a monkey wrench into this year's immigration reform debate. The interaction between immigration policy and the welfare state has been the...

  • How Congress could discourage businesses from hiring US citizens

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Sen. Marco Rubio insists that the immigration bill he’s pushing will not allow non-citizens to qualify for government benefits, but ironically, thanks to President Obama’s health care law, that could make them more attractive to employers than American citizens. Under the health care law,...

  • Max Baucus retiring from Senate, won’t have to defend Obamacare role

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Last week, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus made headlines for declaring that President Obama’s health care law — which Baucus helped design — was a looming “train wreck.” At the time, I speculated that Baucus, up for reelection in 2014, seemed to be positioning himself to...

  • Instead of taxing the Internet, brick and mortar retailers should get creative

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    If you want a concise case against the Senate legislation to force online retailers to collect sales tax, it’s worth checking out this Wall Street Journal editorial. But I just thought it would be worth adding a few thoughts. One of the most compelling arguments offered by brick and mortar...

  • DOJ complaint: Boston bombing had 'substantial' impact on interstate commerce

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    On Monday afternoon, federal prosecutors charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property at the Boston Marathon.” Charging the Boston bombing suspect in federal court — rather than in a state court — allows prosecutors to pursue the death...

  • Why coverage of 'right-wing' violence irritates conservatives

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Fri, Apr 19, 2013

    Earlier this week, NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston drew justifiable outrage from conservatives for engaging in the following on air speculation about the Boston Marathon bombing:  The thinking, as we’ve been reporting, is that this is a domestic or extremist...

  • Philip Klein: Liberals vs. the Great Compromise

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Following the Wednesday defeat of the gun control bill in the Senate,  liberal commentators lashed out at the very structure of the Senate itself. In the New Republic, Jon Cohn and Eric Kingsbury lament: And the supporters’ majority was even bigger than it seems. If you assume, for sake...

  • Philip Klein: Obama's ill-conceived cigarette tax hike

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    As part of his budget released last week, President Obama grasped on to a familiar crutch for desperate politicians when he called for a hike in the federal cigarette tax. On paper, the revenue stream is supposed to finance a new universal preschool program, but the justification for the tax...


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