Byron York

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

“It’s not fully developed… it doesn’t even look like a baby yet.” That’s the falsehood caught on tape of an Arizona abortionist to a woman, 24 weeks pregnant, presumably so that she wouldn’t be tempted to back out of aborting the baby. Below is a picture of a newborn born...

Philip Klein

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

During the health care debate, liberals argued that government had a moral duty to enact legislation that expanded health insurance among lower-income individuals. This was rooted in the assumption that obtaining health insurance translates into improved health. But a landmark study published in...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

As Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski reported yesterday, Terry McAuliffe shares in his 1997 book ‘What a Party,’ a story about the time he left his wife Dorthy and his crying newborn child in the car so he could attend a Democratic fundraiser. In the video above, McAuliffe explains...

Charlie Spiering

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

Comedian Jon Stewart highlighted Sen. Ted Cruz R-Texas on his show last night, pointing out that the principled freshman Senator was considering a presidential run. “Why limit yourself to being hated by your colleagues when you could be hated by the whole country?” asked Stewart. Stewart...

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

Sen. Ted Cruz caused an uproar this week after calling some of his Senate Republican colleagues “squishes” for their votes in favor of stricter gun control measures. Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment notwithstanding, it’s hard to see why this created so much controversy. The media has...

Brian Hughes

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

President Obama will ramp up his calls for comprehensive immigration reform during a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica that comes amid growing obstacles in Washington to his preferred pathway to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. White House officials framed...

Michael Barone

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

I didn’t have space in my Washington Examiner column today to note an extraordinary portion of Barack Obama’s press conference yesterday. “And what we have now is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria, but we don’t know how they were used, when they were used,...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

The big banks are bigger than ever, and despite an eye-catching Left-Right alliance to break them up, they're likely to stay big for the foreseeable future. Liberal Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and conservative Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana have hit roadblocks in their push to impose strict,...

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

In March 2010, weeks before the final passage of President Obama's national health care law, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi uttered the infamous line that "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it," adding, in a less quoted phrase, "away from the fog of the controversy."...