Tag: Commentary

The true story of Escanaba and of Delta County is simple. Its residents are hardworking, honorable, and creative. (Wikipedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Innovation and industry: How a small Michigan town is securing its future

Tom Rogan · April 17, 2017 4:58 pm

Our two extra days to file come courtesy of a rare confluence of circumstances on the calendar. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Why is Tax Day so late this year?

Emily Jashinsky · April 17, 2017 2:23 pm

John Koskinen was brought in by President Obama to clean up the IRS in 2013, but has succeeded only in making the agency more corrupt. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Fire IRS chief John Koskinen

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2017 1:50 pm

There are serious irregularities in the Turkish referendum vote. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Fraud in Turkey’s referendum means renewed violence is on its way

Michael Rubin · April 17, 2017 1:35 pm

There is a clear lesson that brands across the spectrum keep missing: Think twice before weighing in on political controversy. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Pepsi a lesson for brands everywhere

Angela Morabito · April 17, 2017 10:00 am

The pervasive federal regulation of banking only served to drive many banks out of business altogether.

Dodd-Frank regulatory overreaction

Peter Ferrara · April 17, 2017 4:04 am

Beltway Confidential

For 5 years now, this section of the US tax code is among the worst in the world

Pete Sepp · April 17, 2017 12:00 am

Jared Kushner is thought to have been behind the purging of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from the presidential transition. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: The sordid case behind Jared Kushner’s grudge against Chris Christie

Byron York · April 16, 2017 10:14 pm

Monsignor Myron Grabowsky leads the prayer during St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church's Easter Vigil service in Shenandoah, Pa. (David McKeown/Republican-Herald via AP)

National Security

President Trump, resurrect religious freedom

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2017 2:37 pm

De-industrialization is color-blind; it doesn't matter if your town is all white, or predominately black like Ford Heights. (Salena Zito/Washington Examiner)

A fragile hope in Ford Heights

Salena Zito · April 16, 2017 6:00 am

If Fox News wants to appeal to younger conservatives, they should make an effort to understand Lamar's message. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

What Fox News and conservatives can learn from Kendrick Lamar

Liz Wolfe · April 16, 2017 12:18 am

The "everyone gets a trophy" trope existed long before Lena Dunham mined it for comedy. (HBO)

Beltway Confidential

We hated millennials well before ‘Girls’ came along

Emily Jashinsky · April 15, 2017 2:47 pm