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Timothy P. Carney

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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).

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  • Tim Carney: For Barack Obama, speech isn't free when it criticizes him

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson: Watch what you say. On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...

  • The party of free markets is the party of small business

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    If you ask a liberal policy writer or a mainstream straight-news reporter, there’s a decent chance you’ll hear that free enterprise is a pro-big-business economic policy. College kids at George Washington University are learning the opposite lesson, at least in the realm of food trucks:...

  • Will the largest insurer in America benefit from Obamacare?

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    WellPoint is the world’s largest health insurance company, as the parent company, in effect, to 20 statewide Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies. This analyst finds WellPoint to be in an “extremely strong competitive position in a huge market with attractive growth prospects …” The two...

  • How many businessmen feel about Washington

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    If you run in libertarian and conservative circles, you constantly hear the complaint that business doesn’t do enough to defend free enterprise. One reason: The biggest businesses are mostly public corporations run by managers rather than entrepreneurs, and which are already in bed with...

  • Tim Carney: The IRS is deeply political — and very Democratic

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Federal officials used the power of the state to intimidate and harass critics of President Obama and the federal government. When the higher levels of the Internal Revenue Service learned that one office was inappropriately targeting Tea Party groups, these officials nevertheless denied it --...

  • The best sentences we read today

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    “I.R.S. Focus on Conservatives Gives G.O.P. an Issue to Seize On“? “As a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” “Kermit Gosnell has been found guilty and will get what he deserves. Now, let’s make sure these women are...

  • Pro-choice groups pretend Gosnell wasn’t just convicted of murdering three babies

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    A Philadelphia jury just convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell of murdering three babies and killing a patient (involuntary manslaughter on this last charge). The pro-choice movement has responded by pretending no babies were killed. NARAL’s statement ignores the babies and says...

  • The IRS should not be policing speech

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Almost everyone agrees that the IRS should not target groups based on their ideology or political alignment — which is exactly what it looks like Obama’s IRS has done. But a few of the IRS’s critics on the Left make a partial defense of the agency: The IRS needs to make sure these...


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