Tag: Commentary

The deal is bad policy because it is loaded with at least $7 million in corporate welfare. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Trump’s Carrier deal confuses corporate welfare with free markets

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2016 5:03 am

The campaign did not respond to questions about the new stances. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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Trump can make the US energy independent with clean energy

Michele Combs · December 2, 2016 5:02 am

President-elect's Trump's Carrier deal is proof he's willing to use the power of the government to co-opt big business. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Markets, schmarkets: Trump won’t be shy about picking winners and losers

John Bicknell · December 2, 2016 5:02 am

Trump said he was "impressed" by Mattis' answers to his questions on the issue. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Mattis tells Trump he disagrees with him on torture; Trump appoints him to DoD anyway

David Freddoso · December 2, 2016 4:16 am

President-elect Trump hasn't even taken office yet and he is already laying the groundwork for a re-election bid. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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How Trump can keep winning

W. James Antle III · December 2, 2016 3:01 am

BuzzFeed published an article Wednesday suggesting Chip and Joanna Gaines, hosts of HGTV's "Fixer Upper," may agree with their church's teachings on LGBT issues. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision for BuzzFeed/AP Images)

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There’s a big difference between silence and ‘decline to comment,’ BuzzFeed

Becket Adams · December 2, 2016 2:18 am

Repeal and delay won’t work

Philip Klein · December 1, 2016 11:38 pm

Nancy Pelosi's win was a pretty solid one, actually, particularly for a leader under whom House Democrats have, as Tim Ryan pointed out, lost more than 60 seats. (AP Photo)

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The Pelosi House Democrats: Some historic perspective

Michael Barone · December 1, 2016 11:16 pm

President Obama may also be overestimating the network's overall reach and the size of its audience. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Obama is convinced Fox News is all-powerful

Becket Adams · December 1, 2016 9:44 pm

Heidi Heitkamp is one of several Democrats facing re-election in 2018 in a very Republican state that Trump carried by a very large margin. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

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Will Trump poach a Democratic senator?

David Freddoso · December 1, 2016 9:38 pm

On Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan cheered President-elect Trump for doing something he once loathed: meddling in the market. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Ryan slammed Obama for ‘picking winners and losers,’ praises Trump for Carrier

Philip Wegmann · December 1, 2016 9:30 pm

Democrats are happy to collect black votes, but not so eager to hire black employees. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Senate Democrats’ diversity problem

David Freddoso · December 1, 2016 8:15 pm