Examiner Editorial

Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

"Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected," President Obama joked in 2011 about his failed economic stimulus. But as funny as Obama and his millionaire CEO audience found this line, the American people were not amused. Despite spending more than $1 trillion on programs to jump-start...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

Once in a while, a treatise by an academic scholar or think-tank analyst comes along that marshals logic, history and data so effectively that it wreaks havoc with conventional wisdom, forcing new thinking on major public policy issues. Charles Murray's 1984 publication "Losing Ground: American...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

It's more than a little disheartening when the chief executive officer of one of America's most storied Fortune 500 corporations is "comfortable" with the fact that his company created a mere 10 jobs with a $25 million grant under President Obama's economic stimulus program in 2010. The CEO in...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

Among the more unusual aspects of what has been learned thus far about the Brothers Tsarnaev is that in January 2011 Russian officials encouraged their U.S. counterparts to take notice of Tamerlan, the older of the two, for possible Chechen terrorist links. The only known result of the...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Why do violent national tragedies so often spark eruptions of irresponsible speculation among liberal journalists seeking to link the latest horror to their political opponents on the Right? This corrosive pattern was especially evident in the hours following the Boston Marathon Bombing. Even...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

If conservatives should have learned anything from President Obama's first four years in office, it is that this chief executive has no qualms about ignoring the law whenever it becomes an obstacle to his ideological agenda, unless Congress or the federal courts force him to do otherwise....

Examiner Editorial

Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

Members of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee will hold the first hearing on President Obama's nomination of Thomas Perez to be secretary of labor today. The lawmakers should take the opportunity to ask Perez some pointed questions.

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

It is always difficult and imprudent to draw too many conclusions too early about terrorist attacks like the carnage at the Boston Marathon. But there are three significant lessons from this horrendous event that deserve serious and sustained attention from everybody involved, including public...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

Millions of Americans wrote checks to Uncle Sam yesterday for their 2012 federal tax bills. When all the counting is done, the federal government will collect more than $2.7 trillion in tax revenues, the most ever collected by the IRS in one year. Before they signed their checks, though, those...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

President Obama's budget spin-meisters at the Office of Management and Budget deserve nomination for the Biggest Whopper of 2013 Award, thanks to their claim that the chief executive's 2014 budget proposal "represents more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax...