Tag: Commentary

If Congress fails to pass the No Regulation Without Representation Act or similar legislation, states will continue to push to tax and regulate beyond their borders. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Congress should stop states from taxing and regulating beyond their own borders

peter-orourke, Clark Packard · August 5, 2017 4:01 am

Yair Netanyahu at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s son is in trouble for his dog’s pooping habits

Tom Rogan · August 5, 2017 4:01 am

After students led an effort to reverse Southern Methodist Universityâs decision to relocate their annual 9/11 memorial, the school is refusing to budge.

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Southern Methodist University uses speech policy to defend relocation of 9/11 memorial

Emily Jashinsky · August 4, 2017 7:08 pm

That implication is flatly false. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Stephen Miller is right: Lazarus’ immigration poem is not US law

Michael Barone · August 4, 2017 6:59 pm

Last week, Trump nominated Gov. Sam Brownback to serve in the position of Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, a position within the U.S. State Department. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Trump moves forward with religious freedom priorities

Nicole Russell · August 4, 2017 6:54 pm

Alabama hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate in over two decades. So why is the Republican establishment paying top dollar for a seat they already own? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Friendly fire: Is the GOP wasting ammunition in Alabama’s special senate election?

Philip Wegmann · August 4, 2017 6:52 pm

Caitlyn Jenner was spotted cruising through sunny Malibu in a classic Triumph Spitfire convertible, top down, sunglasses on. Jenner accented the laid back look with a bright red Make America Great Again hat. (Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

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Caitlyn Jenner takes joy ride in MAGA hat, sticks with Trump despite transgender ban

Emily Jashinsky · August 4, 2017 6:45 pm

It reflects our unhealthy fealty towards former public officials. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

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It’s not President Barack Obama’s birthday; it’s former President Barack Obama’s birthday

Tom Rogan · August 4, 2017 6:45 pm

If small, low-cost reactors catch on in the electricity markets, that would lower the global growth curve for carbon emissions and keep nuclear power alive. In the meantime, forgoing the use of subsidies to save financially-distressed nuclear plants would not only benefit consumers and other electricity producers, but would be in nuclear power's best interests. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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How to manage the implosion of nuclear power

Mark J. Perry · August 4, 2017 5:56 pm

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., met with President Trump and top White House officials a week ago to discuss their plan to attain the 50 votes necessary in the Senate to replace the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photos and Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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The Senate’s last best chance to end the Obamacare disaster

Justin Haskins · August 4, 2017 5:28 pm

The NAACP report either selectively cites or simply ignores the wide body of charter school research in order to support their preferred stories. (Flickr)

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The NAACP’s campaign to smear charter schools

Marcus Winters · August 4, 2017 5:18 pm

Trump whipped up a movement and, with plenty of his help, Congress wasted it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Republicans only have one thing to show for seven ugly, horrible, no-good months

Philip Wegmann · August 4, 2017 4:54 pm