Sean Higgins
Senior Editorial Writer
Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.
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
06/18/13 07:20 PM
06/10/13 07:15 PM
06/09/13 04:20 PM
06/06/13 05:50 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
Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.
By Sean Higgins | 06/11/13 04:15 PM
In less than three years, four historically union-friendly Midwestern states have adopted laws that threaten to speed the decline of union membership. That has Big Labor's lawyers scouring their libraries for something -- anything -- that can stem this tide. They've claimed these "right to...
By Sean Higgins | 06/11/13 09:35 AM
The nonprofit group Progressive Change Campaign Committee has created a legal defense fund for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, announced the campaign in an email to reporters Monday. The group...
By Sean Higgins | 06/06/13 05:25 PM
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has issued a statement saying that contrary to some reports on the Internet, he has not ruled out taking up the Senate-passed Marketplace Fairness Act, aka the Internet sales tax bill. A local Virginia reporter quoted the lawmaker, who is chairman of the House...
By Sean Higgins | 06/05/13 08:15 PM
A March letter by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce endorsing Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez was secretly written by a top official at the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, newly-released internal emails show. The person who actually wrote the chamber’s...
By Sean Higgins | 06/04/13 03:00 PM
If you want to work for the Los Angeles County government, you have a choice: You can become a dues-paying, public-sector union member, or you can decline to join a union. But either way, you still have to pay union dues. Not only that, but the California Supreme Court ruled last week that you...
By Sean Higgins | 06/03/13 09:50 AM
For those of you following the debate regarding President Obama’s controversial recess appointments, the Washington Post has a good article up getting into the legal issues involved, particularly what the Founding Fathers’ intent was when they created the provision. It is, the Post...
By Sean Higgins | 06/03/13 09:15 AM
Things have gotten pretty testy between the Nation, the venerable liberal weekly, and the Center for American Progress, the liberal nonprofit/media spin machine founded with help from convicted inside trader George Soros. The nub of the debate is this: Who exactly in funding CAP? The nonprofit...
By Sean Higgins | 06/02/13 01:35 PM
In addition to targeting conservative-leaning nonprofit groups, in at least one case the Internal Revenue Service took the extra step of targeting a group’s donors as well, the Wall Street Journal reports: At the same time the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea-party groups, the tax...
By Sean Higgins | 06/02/13 01:25 PM
Don’t tell Paul Krugman, but Washington’s spending splurge on bigger government has resulted in a new class of the upper, upper-income earners. The Wall Street Journal documents it all in a story headlined: “What Sequester? Washington Booms As a New Gilded Age Takes Root.” The new...
By Sean Higgins | 05/31/13 02:40 PM
Andrew Mellon, treasury secretary under President Calvin Coolidge, was apparently the first major Washington political insider to use the Internal Revenue Service against his foes. He may have set a precedent he subsequently regretted though as a few years later he himself became the victim of...
By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13
By Byron York | 06/18/13
By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
By Mark Flatten | 06/17/13
By Byron York | 06/17/13
By: Michael Warren
Williston, N.D.
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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...
Read More...By: John McCormack
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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