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

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  • Union announces opposition to commerce secretary pick Penny Pritzker

    By Sean Higgins | 05/20/13 04:33 PM

    On Monday, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) union announced it would formally oppose the White House’s pick of Penny Pritzker to be the new Commerce Secretary. The Chicago billionaire, a major Obama fundraiser, is set to have a Senate committee confirmation hearing on...

  • Report: Nonprofit applications had not spiked before IRS targeted Tea Partiers

    By Sean Higgins | 05/20/13 03:40 PM

    Washington Post Fact Check columnist Glenn Kessler makes an important catch regarding Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the exempt organizations division who first revealed the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups.

  • Report: Union decertifications increase, Teamsters hit hardest

    By Sean Higgins | 05/20/13 01:45 PM

    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

    By Sean Higgins | 05/20/13 01:35 PM

    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.'

    By Sean Higgins | 05/19/13 12:50 PM

    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

    By Sean Higgins | 05/19/13 12:10 PM

    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

    By Sean Higgins | 05/19/13 11:05 AM

    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?

    By Sean Higgins | 05/19/13 10:20 AM

    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

    By Sean Higgins | 05/17/13 03:45 PM

      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

    By Sean Higgins | 05/16/13 01:20 PM

    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...


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