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Examiner Editorial: Tom Perez and his 'disparate impact' hiring quotas lose in court
Examiner Editorial
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Do Americans have a right to expect that firefighters responding to calls from their neighborhoods will always be the best-trained, most capable individuals available? Not if the U.S. Department of Justice has its way. That's the disturbing message from a discrimination suit DOJ filed against...
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Local Editorial: Reducing private placements is just the first step
Examiner Editorial
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
DC Public Schools has been struggling for years to reduce the amount it spends annually on private school placements for special education students who cannot get their academic needs met in the public system. The focus is now on the main underlying factor:Too many District children are being...
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Ron Arnold: Obscure White House climate warrior wields vast powers
Ron Arnold
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Who is Jon Powers? That's not a spoof on "Atlas Shrugged," which begins with "Who is John Galt?" -- but a serious question about one of the more obscure power brokers in the Executive Office of the President. Powers is a former U.S. Army officer who was appointed last year by President Obama...
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Veronique de Rugy: Hard to find the return on green energy investments
Veronique de Rugy
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Wind energy is the darling of the green energy sector. Over the past 35 years, the industry has received nearly $30 billion in federal subsidies and cash grants, and Washington has promised another $12 billion in subsidies over the next decade. Thus, the argument goes, subsidizing wind energy...
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David Harsanyi: Get the IRS out of the political speech business
David Harsanyi
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
So, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups (or, more precisely, groups displaying a bit too much gusto for limited government) was far more widespread than its initial apology would have led Americans to imagine. Yes, it is disturbing -- a dangerous abuse of power, no...
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Letters for May 17
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
FDR also used IRS to attack political enemies Re: "Nothing to joke about," May 14 Gene Healy invokes President Richard Nixon as the iconic precedent in his discussion of the developing Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the targeting of political opponents. Other commentators often...
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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...
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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...
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Cal Thomas: Kermit Gosnell's 'clinic of horrors'
Cal Thomas
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar, who overdosed on Demerol...
