By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/08/13 07:45 AM
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd explained Thursday morning on “Morning Joe” that the influence of the United States around the world was “waning” during the Obama presidency. “This has been a rough six months for this...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/08/13 07:20 AM
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., explained on Fox News Wednesday night that President Obama was wrong when he told Jay Leno Tuesday that the United States didn’t have a “domestic spying program.” “I would say that it...
Read More...By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/08/13 06:20 AM
Rick Santorum hasn’t been taken seriously as a contender for the 2016 Republican nomination. On Wednesday, my colleague Byron York posted a recent interview he conducted with the 2012 GOP runner up, and questioned this...
Read More...By ASHE SCHOW | 08/08/13 06:04 AM
The California Republican has figured out how to use social media probably better than anyone else in Congress. Here's a look at how he does it, cat photos and all.
Read More...By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/07/13 07:20 PM
I couldn’t disagree more strongly with my Examiner colleague Timothy Carney when he argues that we should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My reading of the history of World War II has...
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/07/13 04:10 PM
Former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign negotiated to purchase the endorsement of an Iowa state senator who had previously endorsed Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., according to emails obtained by...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 02:00 PM
President Obama reminded Americans Wednesday afternoon that he didn’t come from a “fancy background” and actually had to live in his mother-in-law’s house while he was saving for a down payment for a home....
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 01:30 PM
President Obama was interviewed by Zillow.com CEO Spencer Rascoff on Wednesday about the housing market, using the online real estate website to help promote his economic agenda.
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/07/13 01:30 PM
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski thinks that Democrats don’t have a media network analogous to Fox News, which she regards as “a mouthpiece for the Republican Party.”
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 12:50 PM
Populism rhetoric can be used in destructive and evil ways, but it can also be used well.
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 11:45 AM
The tens of thousands of Japanese non-combatants we killed 68 years ago this week with two nuclear bombs were not “collateral damage” of military strikes. They were the intended targets.
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/07/13 11:20 AM
President Obama bragged during his Tuesday speech in Phoenix, Arizona, that “Our deficits are coming down at the fastest rate in 60 years.”
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 10:50 AM
Whenever a journalism enterprise succeeds, I cheer — even when it’s a competitor of the Examiner, or when I dislike the ideology involved. Whenever a journalism enterprise fails, I’m saddened.
Read More...By BYRON YORK | 08/07/13 10:40 AM
This week Rick Santorum returns to Iowa for the first time since last year’s presidential campaign. For Santorum, whose victory in the 2012 caucuses started an improbable run at the Republican nomination, the visit will...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 09:36 AM
Earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden heavily promoted the idea of Americans buying shotguns to defend themselves, their homes, and their families. But America already has a rich tradition of shotgun ownership and...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 09:00 AM
Comedian Jay Leno questioned President Obama about his professed love of broccoli Tuesday night, jokingly accusing the president of lying to children. “Can you put your right hand on a Bible and say,...
Read More...By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/07/13 08:25 AM
Ever since President Obama’s health care program was signed into law, there have been anecdotal reports of business executives pledging to shift more workers to part-time to get around the law’s mandate that larger...
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/07/13 08:25 AM
Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., announced he is officially challenging Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Tuesday, vastly improving Republican chances to win control of the United States Senate in 2014.
Read More...By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/07/13 07:20 AM
With Congress in recess during August, the political world is focused on Oct. 1 – the date that President Obama’s health care law starts signing up participants and that the government will shut down without a budget...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 07:10 AM
Comedian Jay Leno may be a multimillionaire, but he thanked President Obama during an appearance on his show Tuesday night for helping him get health care for his shop employees. “The guys who worked at my shop for me...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 06:50 AM
Comedian Jay Leno asked President Obama Tuesday night about the new “bromance” that he was having with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “I remember you two had that lover’s quarrel for a while and oh, now you’re best...
Read More...By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/06/13 05:40 PM
Two former colleagues have come to Summers’s defense, Harvard Law professor (and former director of the Obama White House regulatory office, OIRA) Cass Sunstein and New York investment banker and Obama auto bailout...
Read More...By ASHE SCHOW | 08/06/13 04:20 PM
Whether due to environmental regulations or cheap natural gas (which the Environmental Protection Agency is also eying suspiciously via potential fracking regulations), these coal plants will close their doors, resulting...
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 04:00 PM
First Lady Michelle Obama hailed a new government report that shows a slight decline in obesity among low-income preschoolers, which she regards as a vindication of her efforts to fight childhood obesity.
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 03:20 PM
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney received news of The Washington Post sale warmly Tuesday during a press briefing on Air Force One. “I was surprised, as a lot of people were, by the news,” Carney said, when...
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/06/13 02:40 PM
How could a free-marketeer want to break up the big banks? In part, because the megabanks are not the creatures of capitalism, but of government.
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 02:25 PM
Defense Department officials cut the number of furlough days yet again, dropping the number of total furlough days for 800,000 civilian employee to about one quarter of the 22 days the Pentagon projected.
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 01:15 PM
The Florida Republican explained on the Mark Levin show Wednesday night that he was concerned about President Obama’s tepid reaction to terror threats in the Middle East.
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 01:05 PM
Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. — who is expected to announce his Senate candidacy at a barbecue in Arkansas today — leads Sen. Mark Pryor 43-41 with 16 percent of voters undecided, according to survey from Harper...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 12:41 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up at the RedState convention in Louisiana last Friday wearing brand new "hipster glasses." Thanks for having me. I'm hipster Rick Perry.
Read More...By ASHE SCHOW | 08/06/13 12:00 PM
Americans' economic confidence fell in July, diving to its lowest point since April, according to the latest Gallup poll.
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/06/13 11:35 AM
On Monday, after reporting on the closure of an online community college partnership, I tweeted the story to Slate’s Matt Yglesias, hoping he might recognize higher education accreditation as one of those areas where an...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 10:00 AM
Former-Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., – now the president of the Heritage Foundation – indicated on MSNBC Tuesday morning that his former senate colleague Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is not a “Jim DeMint conservative.”...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 09:35 AM
On Fox News, the Washington Examiner’s Mark Flatten reports on the alarming trend of fake wounded veterans ripping off a government program to help military heroes. Read the first of his five-part investigative series...
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/06/13 09:15 AM
Amnesty activists frustrated by a lack of progress in the House are pushing Democrats to sign a discharge petition that would force Republicans to vote on the Senate immigration bill. Problem is, Senate Majority Leader...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 08:00 AM
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joked about President Obama’s reaction to the economy during a Q&A session at the RedState Conference in Louisiana on Friday.
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 06:55 AM
Former CBS newscaster Dan Rather admitted he was shocked by the news of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchasing the Washington Post. “Make no mistake, when I heard this news this afternoon, my reaction was ‘holy online...
Read More...By ASHE SCHOW | 08/05/13 04:15 PM
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Tiffin University, a small, private non-profit university in northwest Ohio, announced last week that it has been ordered to stop its Ivy Bridge College associate degree program by the university’s regional accreditor,...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 03:30 PM
During a Q&A session at a RedState convention on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, explained that more and more Americans were understanding that Obamacare was bad for America.
Read More...By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/05/13 02:25 PM
Monmouth University in New Jersey has a new poll out pairing Hillary Clinton against four Republicans – Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz.
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/05/13 01:00 PM
The New York City Mayor damaged the recent push for gun control through his aggressive advocacy of the legislation, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Read More...By BRIAN HUGHES | 08/05/13 12:30 PM
The Republican National Committee on Monday told NBC and CNN they would not partner with the networks for 2016 presidential debates unless the television channels dropped plans to air programs focused on the life of...
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 12:10 PM
Gov. Chris Christie revealed the lowest point in his life during a Las Vegas conference, recalling a moment with his mother after she learned she had three large brain tumors. “I kind of thought my mother was...
Read More...By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/05/13 12:00 PM
Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said that National Security Agency officials have “gotten too carried away with what is technologically possible” with respect to security, adding that he fears the agency...
Read More...By ASHE SCHOW | 08/05/13 11:25 AM
Only 26 percent of working-age adults 15 and over around the world were employed full time by an employer in 2012, according to Gallup's latest Payroll to Population metric.
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/05/13 10:15 AM
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gave House Republicans an “Immigration Resource Kit” Friday, including these 10 talking points against S. 744, the citizenship for illegal immigrants bill passed by the Senate this June.
Read More...By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 09:50 AM
Heritage releases the graphic above showing how the United States government is actually worse off than the now bankrupt city of Detroit.
Read More...By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/05/13 09:40 AM
An op-ed in the New York Times in favor of federal regulation of greenhouse gasses is nothing special. The Times‘s editors presumably thought these authors would have extra credibility with a certain audience segment...
Read More...By CONN CARROLL | 08/05/13 08:40 AM
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gave House Republicans an “Immigration Resource Kit” Friday, and the document hints that Republicans will take up legislation providing legal status to some...
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