Tag: Commentary

One narrative that should be challenged is that being pro-life is out of the mainstream. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Disrupting the ‘mainstream’ abortion narrative

Lisa Boothe · January 27, 2017 5:04 am

Hundreds of thousands of anti-abortion advocates march each anniversary of that ruling up Constitution Avenue, past the Capitol, and to the Supreme Court to protest this morally and legally abhorrent, arrogant decision. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Today’s other women’s march

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2017 5:03 am

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Byron York: Trump’s radical immigration plan: Enforce the law

Byron York · January 27, 2017 4:28 am

Republicans should include one measure in replacement bill: a provision to freeze new enrollment in Obamacare. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

The simplest path to repealing and replacing Obamacare

Philip Klein · January 27, 2017 12:17 am

When a movement becomes rigid and dogmatic, it quickly becomes irrelevant. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Why can’t one be pro-life and pro-woman?

Angela Knobel · January 27, 2017 12:00 am

Abortion litigation looks at how, when, where and by whom abortions will continue, without examining morality. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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On abortion, the Supreme Court can no longer remain on the periphery

Lucia Silecchia · January 27, 2017 12:00 am

A month into 2017 and Republicans haven't repealed Obamacare and Koskinen still has his job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Exclusive: Led by Republican Study Committee, 50 House GOPers tell Trump to fire IRS chief

Philip Wegmann · January 26, 2017 10:01 pm

The unionization rate fell 0.4 percentage points from 2015, and is down 3 percentage points since 2000. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

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Unionization down again; more than half of union members are over age 45

David Freddoso · January 26, 2017 9:58 pm

Economist and prominent Michigan charter schooling critic Douglas Harris labeled the charter schools situation in the Wolverine State as if it were "Westworld." (Courtesy photo)

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Michigan charter schools are not ‘Westworld’

Neal McCluskey · January 26, 2017 8:03 pm

People simply don't see it as the objective evil it is. They see it largely as a faith issue, and that doesn't help win over the secular. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Religion is keeping abortion legal

Thomas McArdle · January 26, 2017 7:59 pm

The proclamation declares Jan. 22 through Jan. 28, 2017 as National School Choice Week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump proclaims this week ‘National School Choice Week’

Jason Russell · January 26, 2017 7:49 pm

On the Capitol steps, President Trump declared that there "was little to celebrate for struggling families," and spoke of "rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Trump’s dour encouragement, uplifting scowl

Hugo Gurdon · January 26, 2017 7:42 pm