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There is long-running debate about what sort of science the NSF should be spending money on. Scientists are broadly united in resisting congressional involvement except to dole out large dollops of taxpayers' money. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A $149,000 question not worth asking

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2016 4:01 am

This week, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) signed a law that will fortify bedrock American legal principles.

Nebraska ends policing for profit

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2016 4:02 am

Bureaucratic negligence and a lack of concern for human life led to people cutting corners. (Jake May /The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Energy and Environment

In Flint, a first step toward government accountability

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2016 4:01 am

Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives. The result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Conservatives vindicated by Obamacare’s mounting failures

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2016 4:01 am

Today, about 37 percent of Denver public school students attend charter schools (18 percent) or innovation schools (17 percent), whereas only 7 percent attended charters in 2005. (AP Photo)

An old idea — freedom — catches on at schools

Washington Examiner · April 19, 2016 4:01 am

Neither the North Carolina law nor the Mississippi law places new burdens on anyone or deprives them of rights they enjoyed hitherto. Rather, each merely preserves a status quo to which opponents have principled objections. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Freedom for me but not for thee

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2016 4:02 am

POLICY ROUNDUP

Washington Examiner, Joana Suleiman · April 18, 2016 4:01 am

As with any other industry, gunmakers have a limit to how much time and money they can afford to spend in court defending such cases before business becomes prohibitively expensive. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Sandy Hook lawsuit proves Congress was right

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2016 4:02 am

Bill Clinton cannot decide how he feels, or at least what he should say, about his legacy on crime. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

The truth is locked away behind bars

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2016 4:03 am

In the real federal government case, the cluelessness threatens millions of people's personal data security. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

IRS looks the other way at illegal immigrants’ Social Security fraud

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2016 4:01 am

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Energy and Environment

Grandstanding AGs vs. free speech

Washington Examiner · April 13, 2016 4:01 am

Trump, who didn't do the necessary legwork, didn't get the delegates. It's that simple. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Donald Trump’s tiny violin

Washington Examiner · April 12, 2016 4:01 am