Timothy P. Carney is a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of "The Big Ripoff" (Wiley, 2006) and "Obamanomics" (Regnery, 2009).
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13 11:15 AM
About one in four Americans ages 18-30 say they “don’t really need” health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. About 35 percent are unwilling to say it’s “worth the money it costs.” Those are pretty big minorities of the population that don’t want health...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13 10:25 AM
The primary consequence of Republican state-level laws requiring voters to present identification or prove citizenship was probably a higher turnout of minority Democrats, as liberals successfully painted these measures as modern-day Jim Crow. Arizona had a law requiring people to prove their...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13 08:05 AM
One of the most persistent canards the Obama campaign got away with was that Republicans wanted to “end access to birth control.” What Republicans were opposing wasn’t “whether or not you can have contraception,” as one Democratic Congresswoman put it, but whether or not your boss...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
Immigration bill enshrines program that lets foreigners get green cards in return for major investments The Senate immigration bill would create a permanent federal program allowing politically connected businessmen to sell visas to Chinese millionaires. ‘I still can't get my head around...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/17/13 04:45 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has hired Charles Landgraf, who appears to be a currently registered lobbyist, as an adviser to help form policy on a product involved in mortgage lending called “force-place insurance.” Landgraf lobbies for a major bank on that exact issue. This seems to...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/17/13 08:35 AM
The farm bill moving through Congress today provides a great reminder of how Washington works: Whenever you see a government subsidy for some sympathetic cause or group -- such as the working man, green-energy, homeownership, or college -- there's a good chance that the financial industry is...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/17/13 01:15 AM
Under the Bush administration, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Mark Agrast worked hard to curtail U.S. government surveillance of individuals whom the government didn’t have a warrant to surveil. Agrast wrote about Bush administration overreaches, and called for greater judicial...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/13/13 03:10 PM
For the first time ever, the federal government is suing a lobbyist for violating the Lobbying Disclosure Act: DOJ is taking an exceptional action in suing for large fines against an “habitual” violator of the federal lobbying disclosure laws. United States of America v....
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/13/13 03:00 PM
From The Diary of HL Mencken edited by Charles Fecher (NY: Alfred Knopf, 1989), p. 113: Baltimore October 12, 1938 Some time ago at a private gathering, Lewis [Dean Lewis (1874-1941) professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and at one time president of the American...
By Timothy P. Carney | 06/13/13 02:10 PM
“Every one of those babies died in utero.” That was the closing argument of Kermit Gosnell’s defense attorney. Had the jury agreed with this question of fact, then the notorious late-term abortionist would have been let go. Given the horror with which nearly everyone reacted to tales...
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By Timothy P. Carney | 06/19/13
Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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