Examiner op-ed contributor

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Passed buck "Why are you here? Why isn't the White House chief of staff here?" --- CBS newsman Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" Button it "There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration. The nanny state is here to tell us all what to do and if you start criticizing, you...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Remember Armand Armendariz, the Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator who resigned after regaling an audience of Big Green activists with a history lesson to illustrate his agency's approach to critics of the EPA's harshest policies? When the Romans conquered a new province, he...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson: Watch what you say. On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...

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 Journal, in the latest pro-Common Core PR piece: Conservative critics ignore how the Common Core...

Gregory Kane

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Here's a question young Malcolm Shabazz probably didn't ask himself the last night of his life: "What would my grandfather do?" The mourners -- hundreds of them, according to news accounts -- gathered Friday at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland, Calif. They came...

James Carafano

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

In the 13 seconds between explosions at the Boston Marathon, dozens of the city's first responders were already on the move. Among them were Thomas Lee and David Carabin, veteran officers in the city's police force. Lee and Carabin had something in common beyond being two of "Boston's finest."...

Hugh Hewitt

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Far better to have an imperfect tax code fairly applied than a perfect tax code unfairly applied. It is far more important that the entire enforcement and regulatory philosophy of the executive branch be radically remade than any particular law be amended. The proponents of tax reform are...

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...

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

IRS scandal requires an independent investigation Re: "Tea Party leaders vent anger at IRS for targeting them," May 17 Anyonewhohasever visitedArlingtonNationalCemeteryshouldbeoutragedby revelationsthattheInternal Revenue Service conductedin an unethical if not illegalmanner....

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

With the convictions in the case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell -- three counts of murdering live babies and one count of involuntary manslaughter -- abortion is back in the national discussion. It's pretty clear from the grand jury report that, during Gosnell's 30-plus-year career, he...