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Op-Eds, Opinion
Think Tank Takes: What you don't know about Common Core
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
Sol Stern is a nice man. It's too bad he's deceiving himself and others about Common Core, an enterprise that essentially nationalizes U.S. education. He and Joel Klein write in the Wall Street...
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Op-Ed: How much is your brain worth?
Jeffrey Cummings
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
How much is your brain worth? It is the three-pound universe that comprises all you know of yourself and your world. It is the most valuable organ you have and is more sophisticated than any...
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Tea Party, Op-Eds, Opinion
Matthew Clark: Tea Party message to the IRS: See you in court
Matthew Clark
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
Claims that the Internal Revenue Service's intentional targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups was not politically motivated are truly outrageous and should concern all Americans....
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Steven Miller: Barack Obama's Smoking Gun
Tom Fitton
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
President Obama has now had his Nixonian "I'm not a crook" moment, taking to the airwaves to feign angry indignation about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his enemies while denying any...
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Obamacare, Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: What is to be done: Reveal and replace Obamacare
Dave Camp and Fred Upton
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
Millions of Americans now find themselves in the midst of a massive botched experiment called Obamacare. Nearly every poll-tested health care commitment is evaporating into thin air, leaving us...
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Obamacare, Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: Obamacare isn't about health care, it's about power
Jim DeMint
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have...
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Jed Babbin: Sharing U.S. missile defense data with Vladimir Putin worst idea ever
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
President Obama's plan to share classified data on our missile defense system with Russia should be blocked by Congress. The head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, Vice Adm. James...
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Op-Ed: D.C. mayor still discriminating against charter school students
Robert Crane
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray pledged throughout his 2010 mayoral campaign to end years of systematic city underfunding of the District's public charter school students compared to their peers in the...
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Ted Cruz: Just tell us the truth, Mr. President
Sen. Ted Cruz
Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013
It's never comforting to have one's longstanding fears confirmed. Yet, that's exactly what's happened over the last week as Americans have been presented with a stunning array of facts that...
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Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: IRS that targeted Tea Party groups also targeted me
Justin Binik-Thomas
Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013
In March 2012, The Washington Examiner published my op-ed entitled "Why is the IRS asking Tea Party groups if they know me?" The IRS, at the time, denied that conservative groups were being...
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Op-Ed: Newseum discredits itself by honoring terrorists
Eric Rozenman
Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013
Located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and U.S. Capitol, the Newseum claims it "educates the public about the value of a free press in a free society." Then why does it plan to...
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Think Tank Takes: Electoral College was Framers' antidote to popular vote
Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
Article II of the Constitution gives states broad authority to decide how their electoral votes are selected and divided among the candidates. In 48 states, the candidate who gets the most votes...
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Op-Ed: Obama's Common Core is not 'state-led'
Joy Pullmann
Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
Controlling the public policy conversation today often means repeating phrases until people believe them. That's why we talk about "narratives," "memes" or the "echo chamber," where everyone...
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Op-Ed: Don't kill D.C.'s vibrant food trucks
Baylen J. Linnekin
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
Today, the District of Columbia Council's Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs Committee will hear testimony on proposed regulations that could spell doom for the District's popular food...
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Op-Ed: Save the D.C. food trucks
Julie Borowski
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
D.C.'s food truck craze first hit the streets a few years ago and has not slowed down since. Small business entrepreneurs are thriving and customers have more food choices than ever before. New...
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Manhattan, Op-Eds, Columnists
Manhattan Moment: Medicaid decision gives states a bargaining chip with feds
Yevgeniy Feyman
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
As the most recent in a string of states making decisions about their Medicaid programs, Missouri has tabled the Obamacare expansion of its Medicaid program for at least a year. Four other...
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Labor unions, Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: 'Life of Julius' shows how unions kill jobs, hurt workers
Published: Wed, May 8, 2013
Many people realize that unions can hurt the workers they claim to represent. For example, the United Auto Workers union drove labor costs up for the Big Three automakers, a major factor in...
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Op-Ed: Raising minimum wage will kill jobs for young Millennials
Evan Feinberg
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
Young Americans looking for work could receive another crushing blow this week as the U.S. Senate will decide Thursday whether to confirm Thomas Perez as the next secretary of labor. Perez has...
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The Pentagon, Op-Eds, Opinion
Jed Babbin: Obama is not done cutting defense just yet
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
April was a pretty awful month for President Obama, but it's too early for Republicans to start celebrating his political demise. People keep trying to compress the political calendar, wanting...
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Gun Control, Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: NRA may have taken premature victory lap
Neil W. McCabe
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
By most any measure, the 142th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association in Houston was a success, but the victory lap mood in the room could set up gun owners for a huge disappointment....
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Op-Ed: How to end secret money without passing a law
Daniel G. Newman
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
April 30. 2013, marked the day that the term of the last Federal Elections Commission member expired. Now, out of six seats on the FEC, one is vacant and every remaining commissioner is serving an...
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Think Tank Takes: Air quality gains continue to grow
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
The reduction in air pollution continues to be the most successful domain of pollution reduction since the first Earth Day in 1970. Since the first edition of this Almanac of Environmental Trends...
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Op-Ed: Time to reconsider idea of 'unionized' government employees
Walker Johanson
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
Given the recent collective bargaining agreement between Montgomery County and its various public-sector unions -- in which county employees are scheduled to receive a 10 to 20 percent raise over...
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Op-Eds, Columnists, Opinion
Sunday Reflection: Op-Ed: Legal abortion is killing mothers, too
Elise Ehrhard
Published: Sat, May 4, 2013
In recent weeks, the abortion rights movement has been arguing that Kermit Gosnell is an example of what America would look like without Roe and that his very existence is actually the fault of...
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Op-Ed: Is Obama really reducing regulatory burdens?
Susan Dudley and Sofie Miller
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
According to President Obama's 2014 budget, reducing regulatory burdens is an administration priority, and he has issued several executive orders requiring agencies to examine their existing rules...
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Op-Ed: A not-so-taxing decision on Internet sales
Nicole Gelinas
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
Is the Marketplace Fairness Act fair? To anti-tax advocates' chagrin, Democrats and Republicans have finally found something they agree on. Next week, they'll likely pass a bill requiring online...
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Op-Eds, Opinion
Op-Ed: In Virginia, a conflict of interest that never was
Andrew Miller
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Given this year's high-profile gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, it is not surprising that some partisans, pundits and reporters have distorted the facts of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's...
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Op-Ed: Liberal academics use 'climate science' to suppress independent thinkers
Anthony J. Sadar
Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
"Progressivism" is the modern morph of socialism. And socialism is all about its own power, so it doesn't take too kindly to independence and independent thinking in others. Much of the...
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Op-Ed: Five common-sense reforms to get America working again
Greg Orman
Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013
It's harder than ever for average citizens to achieve the American dream. Yet our well-intentioned support is also making it easier for people to do nothing with their lives. Here are five...
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Op-Ed: Unjust pre-funding of benefits is killing the postal service
Fredric Rolando
Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013
The Washington Examiner has spilled considerable ink in recent weeks (Sean Higgins, "Going postal over reform," Feb. 8) seeking to downplay the impact of the 2006 congressional mandate that the...
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