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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).
  • 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...

  • Gosnell’s defense: This is just abortion

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    PHILADELPHIA — “Every one of those babies died in utero.” That is the pillar on which abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s defense rests. Defense attorney John J. McMahon’s closing argument today boiled down to this: Gosnell’s supposed crimes were really just late-term abortions. The...

  • Siemens, Shell and the solar lobby against big business?

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    Those pushing green-energy policy usually make one of two arguments: (A) You’re either with us or you’re with big, greedy business. or (B) Big business is on our side, so join us or hurt the economy. It’s hilarious when the green-energy crowd tries to make both arguments...

  • Tim Carney: Obama should blame Tea Party, not NRA, for gun control defeat

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

    President Obama, according to his own telling, would have passed a gun control bill supported by nearly every American, but the National Rifle Association drove in trucks full of money and lobbyists, buying off senators. Obama's story isn't true. The NRA doesn't work like the lobbies Obama is...

  • Democratic Senator: ‘Too much Wall Street in this administration’

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Fri, Apr 26, 2013

    President Obama has posed as the scourge of Wall Street, and much of the media has fallen for it. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an actual foe of government favors for big banks, hasn’t been fooled. Brian Beutler at TPM reports: “It’s clear there’s too much Wall Street in this administration,”...

  • Shareholder asks GE to give back taxpayer profits

    Timothy P. Carney

    Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    When does a free-marketeer condemn corporate profits? When the profits come from the taxpayer. At yesterday’s GE shareholder conference, free-market activist Tom Borelli stood up and, in the context of GE’s involvement in the Fix The Debt campaign, pointed out GE’s tendency to seek and...

  • When they say ‘labor shortage,’ do they just mean ‘we wish wages were lower’?

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Most of the muscle for the push to liberalize our immigration laws comes from businesses seeking more skilled technology workers. They say there’s a shortage of workers trained in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM as they call it). This argument has currency among politicians...

  • Tim Carney: Sen. Max Baucus, master of revolving door, heads for the exit

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    The retirement of Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the tax-writing Finance Committee, means that the Senate will soon lose an office that served as a training ground for future lobbyists and a style of lawmaking based on granting special favors. "K Street's Favorite Democrat," liberal writer...

  • If you charge high prices, lobby to outlaw low prices

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    There’s a crisis in England, apparently — binge drinking. Specifically, the story goes, blokes and lasses are buying cheap booze at the corner store, and getting drunk even before they go out on the town. The bar owners have a solution: minimum liquor prices in grocery stores. The...