Tag: Commentary

Rex Tillerson, chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., left, listens on the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, June 16, 2016. Tillerson, now Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, endorsed a carbon tax to discourage greenhouse-gas emissions and mitigate climate change. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)

Liberals scowl at Tillerson’s less-cronyist climate plan

Timothy P. Carney · December 13, 2016 9:59 pm

By 2020, Joe Biden will be 77-years-old, and Elizabeth Warren will be 70. Unless Democrats starts grooming younger candidates soon, the average age of the party's supposed bench in 2020 will be about 79. (AP Photos)

Beltway Confidential

The average age of Democratic voters’ top choices for 2020 is 75

Becket Adams · December 13, 2016 9:34 pm

Borrowers were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institutes. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s student-debt forgiveness is textbook subsidized irresponsibility

Philip Wegmann · December 13, 2016 8:20 pm

Stewart rolls out tenuous relationships and 15-year-old quotes to make this case. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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NYT op-ed tries, fails to paint Trump’s education pick as religious extremist

Jason Russell · December 13, 2016 7:03 pm

Tillerson has business ties to Russia that senators in both parties are sure to explore. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Beltway Confidential

Tillerson nomination shines spotlight on Trump, Russia

W. James Antle III · December 13, 2016 6:06 pm

Michael Morell.

Beltway Confidential

Don’t be surprised by the former CIA director’s rhetoric on alleged Russian interference

Becket Adams · December 13, 2016 5:34 pm

The very generous Exxon Mobil executive donated nearly half-a-million to political candidates. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Beltway Confidential

Rex Tillerson bankrolled Trump’s former critics and ex-rivals

Philip Wegmann · December 13, 2016 5:14 pm

Intellectual property is one of the founding principles that our Founders included in the Constitution, "To promote the progress of science and useful arts." (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

To boost innovation, the U.S. has to protect patent rights

Charles Sauer · December 13, 2016 4:24 pm

Betsy DeVos is uniquely suited to help build bipartisan state coalitions from the bottom up. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Betsy DeVos must master the art of persuasion

Max Eden · December 13, 2016 5:02 am

Thanks to Sen. Harry Reid, no matter how much Democrats rail against the choice of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the EPA, he will surely be confirmed. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Pruitt a solid choice to fix a broken, power-hungry EPA

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2016 5:01 am

Noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has found a story that's too far-fetched even for him. (Screen shot)

Beltway Confidential

Alex Jones finally finds a conspiracy he can’t get behind

Becket Adams · December 13, 2016 12:23 am

That a candidate who promised to repeal the law won in historically blue states should ?not be lost on us. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Democrats ignore Obamacare victims at their own peril

Jonathan Bydlak · December 13, 2016 12:01 am