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  • Op-Ed: Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis

    Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and characterizes food marketers as little better than child molesters. Weighing in from the Left are...

  • Op-Ed: Benghazi is serious, but it's not Watergate

    Douglas MacKinnon

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    There are at the moment a number of exaggerated, even breathless comparisons between President Obama's Benghazi/IRS/Associated Press controversies and President Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1973. Part of that narrative is driven by the fact that the media like to associate controversies with...

  • 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 computer. Without it you are not yourself. Over five million Americans are not the same vibrant mothers...

  • 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. Unbelievably, in his congressional testimony on Friday, the acting commissioner of the IRS, Steve Miller,...

  • 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 knowledge whatsoever of what his administration had been up to. I am not surprised that Obama is...

  • 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 with higher costs and headaches of uncertainty. Unfortunately, this was both predicted and...

  • 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 questioned the need for another repeal vote. However, the scandals coming to light over the last week...

  • Jed Babbin: Sharing U.S. missile defense data with Vladimir Putin worst idea ever

    Examiner op-ed contributor

    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 Syring, disclosed these plans in congressional testimony last week. He also reportedly said that, while...