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Sean Higgins is senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily. A Virginia native, he now lives in Arlington.

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  • Report: Union decertifications increase, Teamsters hit hardest

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Bloomberg BNA reports: How often does a unit of already-unionized workers actually decide to formally say goodbye to their union—and is it happening more often now than in the past? Actually, it is happening less often. The (National Labor Relations Board) reported 228 decert elections in...

  • NY Times: IRS targeting based on manager’s directive

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Following up on my post from Sunday about the Washington Post burying the lede in their story about the Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service office, the New York Times has a similar story up Monday that essentially confirms that the targeting of Tea Party groups came from the top. The Times...

  • Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.”

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

    A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents. The Post story...

  • Bulworth screenwriter: Obama is no Bulworth

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    Over at the Nation, Jeremy Pikser, who co-wrote the Warren Beatty film Bulworth offers his reaction to the report that President Obama has considered “going Bulworth” according to the New York Times. Pikser’s article is titled: “I knew J. Billington Bulworth, and you, Mr. President, are...

  • More on Thomas Perez, disparate impact and the Supreme Court

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    Terry Eastland focuses on Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez’s unusual quid pro quo with the city of St. Paul in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard, a story we have devoted more than a few pixels to here. Perez’s deal involved getting the city to drop a case bound for the Supreme...

  • How many nonprofit auditors does the IRS have?

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    In its Saturday edition the Washington Post featured two separate front-page stories about the controversy engulfing the Internal Revenue Service for its targeting of Tea Party groups seeking nonprofit status. Both stories featured completely different figures for the number of auditors the IRS...

  • Competitive Enterprise Institute to honor transgender woman at annual dinner

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

      Deirdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is set to be honored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading Washington, D.C., free market/libertarian think tank, with its annual Julian Simon Award at a major dinner event in June. CEI...

  • Second appeals court rules Obama’s recess appointees invalid

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    A key argument used by Senate Democrats defending the National Labor Relations Board during a hearing this morning was that while an Appeals Court had ruled in January that two of President Obama’s recess appointees to the board were unconstitutional, other courts had not. Therefore, the NLRB...

  • Senate committee to vote on NLRB nominees Wednesday

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced Thursday that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee would vote on all five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday morning next week. Harkin’s announcement followed a two-hour hearing — which will apparently be the...

  • Senate committee approves Thomas Perez for labor secretary on party-line vote

    Sean Higgins

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    In a crisp 30 minutes, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved the nomination of Thomas Perez Thursday morning to be the new labor secretary. The vote was 12-10, along party lines. Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said there was “no question” that Perez would...


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