Tag: Analysis

Signs of national decline are everywhere this holiday season

Cal Thomas · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

According to Payscale.com, Walmart's cashiers on average make between $7.50 and $10.77 and sales associates make between $7.63 and $11.83. (AP File)

How D.C.’s effort to raise the minimum wage helps Walmart

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama turns around to respond to hecklers interrupting his speech about immigration reform, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

AFL-CIO urges Obama to halt deportations

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

DetroitÃÂ Mayor Dave Bing speaks at a news conference inÃÂ Detroit onÃÂ Tuesday. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Beltway Confidential

Judge okays Detroit’s bankruptcy

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

An technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, 255 miles south of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. (AP File)

Negotiating with Iran is better than war

Gene Healy · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Camille Cosby and Bill Cosby leave their home Jan. 16, 1997, the night their son, Ennis William Cosby, was shot and killed. Camille Cosby would go on to write an op-ed titled, "America taught my son's killer to hate blacks." (AP File)

Don’t let nonwhite racists off the hook

Gregory Kane · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

The Democratic leadership's overreach could be its downfall if Republicans rally behind the possibilities of limited government. (AP File)

GOP should focus on limiting government in 2014

Hugh Hewitt · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Organizers behind a series of strikes in the fast food industry over the last few months are promising another round Thursday. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Fast-food strikes set for Thursday

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Jalaluddin Haqqani's network practically invented the practice of recruiting "foreign fighters." (AP File)

America will pay for leaving the Haqqani devil in Afghanistan’s den

James Jay Carafano · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Kirk Postotnik speaks to someone asking about the insurance marketplace at Portico Healthnet in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, file)

Beltway Confidential

Insurers still reporting ‘significant problems’ with Obamacare enrollment data

Philip Klein · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Obamacare's increased insurance premiums will mean an extra financial strain on too many families to be ignored. (Thinkstock)

Democrats can’t hide from Obamacare’s middle-class pinch

David Freddoso · December 1, 2013 5:00 am

Obama donor Jeffrey Kindler, shown here in 2009, was Pfizer's CEO during the Obamacare debate. In a corporate filing, the company justified a salary increase by pointing to his Obamacare lobbying.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Obama’s corporatist contraceptive mandate

Timothy P. Carney · November 30, 2013 5:00 am