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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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  • ‘We’ve excluded lobbyists’: Obama nominates lobbyist bundler to FCC post

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Barack Obama said “we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.” He also said that he wouldn’t let lobbyists fund his campaign. While some in the media bought what he was selling, neither claim was ever true. Today’s nomination simultaneously shows the falsity of both claims —...

  • Oil pipeline companies lose in eminent domain fight

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Some politicians want to fight Big Oil with the tools of big government: prohibit drilling, create windfall-profit taxes, impose new emissions rules, bar pipeline-building. But as with any industry, oil’s interests sometimes require big government, making the libertarian view the anti-oil...

  • Who’s turned off by ‘save the environment’ light bulbs? Almost everybody

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Last month, folks from our local utility showed up at our house with a box of energy-efficient bulbs. The utility men went around our house, unscrewing the regular incandescents, and screwing in the compact-fluorescent bulbs. The next morning, at breakfast, I asked my 6-year-old to run down to...

  • Tim Carney: Left-Right coalition looks outmatched by big banks

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    The big banks are bigger than ever, and despite an eye-catching Left-Right alliance to break them up, they're likely to stay big for the foreseeable future. Liberal Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and conservative Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana have hit roadblocks in their push to impose strict,...

  • Weiner’s disgrace — by which I mean green-energy subsidies — led to riches

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    After leaving Congress because he accidentally sent a picture of his clothed but erect penis to the public while trying to send it to a young woman who was not his wife, Anthony Weiner made lots of money. The New York Times posits “Mr. Weiner’s lucrative stint in business could serve as a...

  • Is foreign food aid corporate welfare?

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich. That’s not an argument against government programs, but it’s almost always asking “who is getting rich?” or “who would get rich?” from a government program or proposed regulation, tax, or subsidy. One way to figure this...

  • Question for NYT: If I don’t get in fights with my neighbors, am I a ‘loner’?

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    If you don’t want the United States military to intervene in a brutal civil war half way around the world, or to start a war with a nuclear power, then the New York Times reporters and editors apparently think you’re an “isolationist.” Catch the lead from this news story at the...

  • Gosnell attorney rails against media, ‘racist’ and ‘elitist’ prosecutors

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    PHILADELPHIA – Abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s attorney John McMahon in today’s opening arguments railed against the media, which he said has “stomped on” “the presumption of innocence.” He derided the “elitist, racist prosecution,” specifically naming Assistant...


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