Tag: Commentary

Since 2002, the ICC has convicted a grand total of four individuals and its budget is around $150 million a year. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)

Beltway Confidential

It would be a terrible mistake to try the ISIS ‘Beatles’ at the Hague

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 1:11 pm

At a time of rising drug prices (and drug company profits) and a projected increase in the number of uninsured Americans, Medicare cuts are the wrong way to go. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Trump administration drug pricing policy hurts the most vulnerable

David Ramsey · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

Conservative states have long since begun helping ex-offenders land on their feet upon release. (iStock photo)

Yes, Trump is embracing criminal justice reform

Ken Cuccinelli, Ken Blackwell · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

George Soros is entitled to push whatever interests he wants. And we conservatives should be magnanimous enough to accept that not every cause he has backed is wrong. Sure, a lot of them are: He seems obsessed with building up undemocratic supranational structures. But he has also given money to undermine Communist states, as well as to alleviate poverty in Africa. (Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)

In defense of George Soros

Dan Hannan · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

During our tour stops, we were reminded by local moms, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and business owners that every issue is a woman's issue. (iStock photo)

What women want in 2018

sarah-chamberlain · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

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Can the ‘Supercommittee II’ fix Congress’ dysfunction?

Susan Ferrechio · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

Unfortunately, too many high school graduates who seek the opportunity to serve don't make the cut. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The armed forces have an education problem

Christi Ham · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

In this photo from Jan. 20, an opposition member waves a Venezuelan flag during a protest outside of the city's morgue in Caracas, Venezuela. In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro and his Marxist supporters have previously clung to power by refusing to schedule regional elections and by jailing and banning its political opponents. Now, the government has announced hastily-scheduled presidential elections, but the most popular opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, has been banned from running. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Trump should do more to denounce Latin American socialism

David Unsworth · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

The Democrats’ biggest liability wears 4-inch heels

Salena Zito · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

Pope Francis's papacy has emphasized care for the weak, but he has remained quiet when it comes to the strong men leading dictatorships around the globe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis must make the church a beacon of truth again

Washington Examiner · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to lift the state of emergency that has resulted in arrests and dismissal of tens of thousands of government employees, including many scientists and teachers. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Beltway Confidential

The heartbreaking story of Turkey sentencing an American NASA scientist to 7.5 years in prison

Eugene Chudnovsky · February 10, 2018 5:01 am

After the news broke late last year that Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a credible sexual harassment complaint brought against him by a former staffer, he pledged to pay back the money. Now, he's not so sure. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Blake Farenthold flip flops on returning taxpayer money used in sexual harassment settlement

Emily Jashinsky · February 10, 2018 12:06 am