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Sean Higgins is a senior editorial writer for the Washington Examiner. He was previously Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily.

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  • Sean Higgins: Big Labor unprepared to battle new right-to-work laws

    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...

  • Liberal group establishes Edward Snowden legal defense fund

    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...

  • House chairman: Report that I have killed the Internet sales tax bill is inaccurate

    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...

  • State regulator secretly wrote Maryland Chamber’s letter endorsing Perez for labor post

    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...

  • Sean Higgins: Californians must pay union dues whether they join or not

    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...

  • A short primer on the legal issues regarding recess appointments

    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...

  • Liberal mag to Center for American Progress: Open your books

    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...

  • IRS targeted donors to GOP group, too

    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...

  • How big government creates a new class of the super rich

    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...

  • Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, the IRS and karma

    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...


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