Tag: Commentary

Linda Sarsour, the Brooklyn-born Muslim activist who co-founded the Women's March and often advocates on behalf of Palestinians, may have just been outed as an enabler of sexual assault after one of her previous employees shared her story of working for her at the Arab American Association in 2009. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour accused of enabling sexual assault, threatening victim

Siraj Hashmi · December 18, 2017 4:23 pm

The decision of authorities to quickly release the base from lockdown suggests that they believe the suspect was working alone. (Chris Radburn/PA File, via AP)

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A US airbase in Britain was just attacked. Here’s what we know

Tom Rogan · December 18, 2017 4:09 pm

The senator had previously planned to make his decision based on the conclusion of an Ethics Committee investigation, but caved amid mounting pressures from his female colleagues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Four senators urge Franken to reconsider resignation, according to new report

Emily Jashinsky · December 18, 2017 3:04 pm

Even though Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Doug Jones won the Alabama special election, he carried only one of the state's seven congressional districts. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Doug Jones’ loss in 6 of 7 congressional districts doesn’t mean Alabama’s redistricting plan is unfair

Michael Barone · December 18, 2017 1:52 pm

During the 2016 presidential election, many conservative religious leaders, traumatized by the Obama years and terrified of a Hillary Clinton presidency, turned to Trump as the champion of their hopes. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Rethinking Donald Trump: The evangelical dilemma

Washington Examiner · December 18, 2017 5:01 am

Politicians and journalists remain weirdly fixated on the closure of the few remaining coal mines, shipyards, and steel mills, but many more jobs are disappearing in the services sector. What has happened to all the video rental employees? Or to the travel agents, or the secretaries, or the archivists, or the newspaper reporters? Turnover in services is far higher than in the remaining manufacturing jobs, though it receives nothing like the same attention. (iStock)

Hannan: Capitalism is a win, even for the losers

Dan Hannan · December 18, 2017 5:01 am

Without full funding, many small, local businesses, like food trucks, will not get opportunities. (iStock photo)

An entrepreneurial program at risk in budget talks

Luz Urrutia · December 18, 2017 5:01 am

The new tax code will cut income taxes for just about everyone. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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The GOP tax reform is the Christmas gift we’ve all been waiting for

Nan Hayworth · December 18, 2017 5:01 am

President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, after returning from Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Byron York: Amid firestorms, Trump has year of solid policy accomplishments. Can he keep going?

Byron York · December 18, 2017 2:27 am

Congress's new tax bill creates a new 20 percent small business deduction. In other words, for a business with $200,000 a year in annual earnings, $40,000 would be completely tax free. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tax bill would help ordinary Americans and small business owners like me

Washington Examiner · December 17, 2017 5:01 am

The "It's Going Down" Antifa-style environmentalist group recently posted about activists who intruded on the private property of a Virginia official and draped a banner from her front porch protesting new natural gas pipelines. (screenshot)

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Green Antifa-type group takes aim against pipelines with aggressive tactics

Kevin Mooney · December 17, 2017 5:01 am

Supporting misguided stall tactics in sugar policy like "zero-for-zero" effectively hands over control of U.S. economic policy - and Americans' wallets - to corrupt foreign governments like that of Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Big Sugar’s ‘zero for zero’ scam

David Williams · December 16, 2017 5:01 am