Tag: Commentary

Obamacare's health insurance tax, which has been delayed in the past, hits insurance companies with a 4-6 percent tax on every plan sold. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

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Most people dislike Obamacare’s imminent health insurance tax

Emily Jashinsky · November 20, 2017 7:03 pm

By more efficiently pumping millions of barrels oil into the U.S. energy market, Keystone XL will bring new jobs and lower energy bills. (Eric Gregory/The Journal-Star via AP)

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You should celebrate the Keystone XL pipeline approval

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 6:59 pm

Movements -- the religious right or liberal feminists -- can start acting like partisans. (AP Photos)

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Political parties devour moral movements

Emily Jashinsky · November 20, 2017 6:20 pm

German Chancellor and Chairwomen of the German Christian Democratic Party, Angela Merkel, left, and the CDU faction leader Volker Kauder, right, arrive for a faction meeting at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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Is this the end for German Chancellor Angela Merkel?

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 5:44 pm

Collage of news sites

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The media are undeniably biased by their liberal bubble

Louis Sarkozy · November 20, 2017 5:23 pm

Once we agree that a national minimum wage isn't appropriate, then we've just killed off the argument about having a minimum wage at all. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

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We could make the minimum wage less harmful, or we could just abolish it

Tim Worstall · November 20, 2017 5:22 pm

The Iranian regime has already made a debacle of the disaster relief and is preventing aid that already exists in the country from reaching the victims. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Sanctions are not keeping aid from reaching Iranian earthquake victims

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2017 5:04 pm

An average of polls in Alabama has Roy Moore down by just 0.2 points against Democrat Doug Jones. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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The reason Roy Moore will win evangelical Christian voters

Philip Wegmann · November 20, 2017 4:44 pm

The FedSoc conference ended with a panel warmly and wistfully remembering the legacy of Antonin Scalia, a man so many still miss. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

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Remember Antonin Scalia by his speeches, not just by his piercing legal decisions

Nicole Russell · November 20, 2017 4:35 pm

It's beginning to look like Bannon's drive to oust Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a drive to install Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Steve Bannon’s stock plummeting in the political marketplace

Michael Barone · November 20, 2017 3:53 pm

When it comes to Assad's chemical atrocities, Putin must not get a pass. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Russia is trying to hide Syrian chemical weapons attacks — don’t let them

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 3:36 pm

President Trump met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during the U.N. General Assembly in September. On Saturday, the Trump administration informed Palestinian officials that their Washington office will lose its diplomatic permit. The Palestinians believe the decision is retaliation for their September decision to ask the International Criminal Court to charge Israeli officials with war crimes offenses. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump should reauthorize the Palestinian office in Washington

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 1:48 pm