Tag: Commentary

This follows the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August, which antifa protested. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Is antifa a terrorist organization? One group says yes

Nicole Russell · December 5, 2017 5:21 pm

Alex Azar, President Donald Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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There’s plenty to like about Trump’s HHS pick, Alex Azar

Sally Pipes · December 5, 2017 5:13 pm

The story, now titled "McFarland's Testimony About Russia Contacts Is Questioned," reported originally that an email sent by the former Trump transition official indicated she lied to Congress this summer when she was questioned about disgraced Gen. Michael Flynn's communications with the Russians. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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New York Times forced to heavily amend another supposed K.T. McFarland ‘scoop’

Becket Adams · December 5, 2017 4:32 pm

This matters if we want to attract the best and the brightest to enter the highest levels of public service.

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Members of Congress should get higher salaries

Tom Rogan · December 5, 2017 3:19 pm

Supporters of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments gathered during a rally Saturday in Salt Lake City. Two days later, President Trump announced plans to shrink the two sprawling national monuments in Utah that were created by past Democratic presidents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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The Left’s new anthem: This land is ‘our’ land

Pete Kasperowicz · December 5, 2017 12:00 pm

Unfortunately, net neutrality-related conversations are often marred with inaccuracies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

The sky is not falling: FCC plan to free the Internet will foster needed investment and innovation

alison-cheperdak · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

"And I just couldn't help thinking that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn't really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanners, or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election."

Affairs and assaults

Noemie Emery · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

The tax plan's skeptics will point out that the proposed tax breaks would also benefit those business owners who are not in financial need and who don't struggle as much as the owners of low-income small businesses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The Republican tax plans are entrepreneur-friendly

Brian Hamilton · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

Over the last several years, the Internal Revenue Service has become embroiled in controversies. It needs to focus on administering the tax code in a fair and impartial manner for Americans. The new IRS commissioner has an opportunity here. (iStock)

Rep. Vern Buchanan: Advice for a long-awaited new IRS commissioner

Rep Vern Buchanan · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

Rather than just simply tweeting an op-ed, the New York Times editorial board took over the entire @NYTOpinion Twitter account to express its discontent with the Republicans' tax reform plan. (screenshot)

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The New York Times unwittingly proves that corporate free speech needs protection

Eric Peterson · December 5, 2017 4:29 am

The World Trade Organization has ruled against the U.S. in every safeguard measure the latter has imposed since 1994, but now President Trump is being asked to consider two additional safeguard measures. (iStock)

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Suniva and Whirlpool trade cases clearly show safeguard laws are broken

Clark Packard · December 5, 2017 3:44 am

When President Trump visited China in early November and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, many in the U.S. foreign policy establishment used the occasion to gripe that he was ceding global leadership to China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Restraint, humility, and the ‘ungrateful fool’ that is LaVar Ball

Ying Ma · December 5, 2017 3:28 am