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 | 05/16/13 12:20 PM
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:...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/16/13 12:10 PM
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...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/15/13 04:35 PM
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...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/15/13 03:10 PM
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 --...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/13/13 08:30 PM
“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...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/13/13 04:05 PM
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...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/13/13 03:05 PM
Did you ever buy something but never use it? If you’re a taxpayer in Florida, you have — it’s called the upper deck of Marlins Park. The club is upgrading all upper-deck ticket holders to the lower levels, because attendance is so bad (I found this story through the excellent...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/13/13 12:10 PM
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...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/13/13 11:50 AM
For years, I was suffering under a labor shortage: I couldn’t find anyone to mow my lawn. I made it very clear I was willing to pay $7.50 for someone to mow my lawn, but nobody showed up. If I were the American Farm Bureau, I would start lobbying Washington for policies to boost the supply...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/10/13 05:35 PM
Facts emerging about Benghazi may not tell us anything new, but they remind us of two important truths: First, the upper levels of the Obama administration are peppered with partisans who play fast and loose with the truth for political gain. Second, regime change and military interventions,...
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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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