Examiner Editorial

Updated: 16 hr ago

This will come as a shock to those who believe the only significant news in recent weeks has been the Benghazi, IRS and AP/Fox News intimidation scandals, but there have been some significant developments on other issues. Consider the May 14 "Dear Colleague" letter by Republican Sens. Tom Coburn...

Gene Healy

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

You may be appalled about IRS inquisitions for Tea Party groups and dragnet subpoenas for investigative reporters, but what's really outrageous, according to some commentators, is that a couple of Republicans recently dared to use the "I-word" -- "impeachment."

Examiner Editorial

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

It's been 14 years since Congress authorized $63 million for a fitting memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II and the nation's 34th president. It's been four years since architect Frank Gehry submitted his controversial design and three years...

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...

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...

Cal Thomas

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer...

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Obama administration refuses to accept responsibility Re: "Obama's IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech," May 19 After a stunning week in American politics, it is painfully obvious that the Obama administration is either composed of pathological liars or is the most inept...

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...

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...