Tag: Commentary

More than 36,000 illegal aliens convicted of felonies were released by ICE in 2013 pending determination of their deportation proceedings. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Beltway Confidential

The worst of the worst slip through immigration loopholes

Leon Wilmot, Jonathan Thompson · November 3, 2016 4:03 am

Doctors are more than mere scientists with a license to meddle with people's bodies. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Don’t create the capitol of death

Washington Examiner · November 3, 2016 4:01 am

Congress did not give EPA a blank check to issue environmental regulations with no regard for consequences. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

Holding the EPA to account

William Kovacs · November 3, 2016 4:01 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds his granddaughter Isabel Dobbs-Higginson as he talks to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon after signing the Paris Agreement on climate change, Friday, April 22, 2016 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Paris, an exercise in climate rainmaking

Patrick Michaels · November 3, 2016 4:01 am

A Clinton loss would validate my old rule that nothing is free in politics. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Is Team Clinton booting the election?

Michael Barone · November 2, 2016 9:22 pm

It's up to a jury now to decide whether former U.Va. dean Nicole Eramo, shown above with her attorney Tom Clare, deserves millions of dollars from Rolling Stone after the magazine published a now-discredited article alleging the school administrator didn't care about sexual assault accusers. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Rolling Stone lawsuit is now with the jury

Ashe Schow · November 2, 2016 8:20 pm

With Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two of the most unlikeable candidates in American history, the presidential election has become an awkward and interesting popularity contest. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Beltway Confidential

Many Trump and Clinton voters simply opposing the other party

Philip Wegmann · November 2, 2016 7:48 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why I’m writing in McMullin

Timothy P. Carney · November 2, 2016 7:11 pm

"This situation is unacceptable. It's unacceptable to have any students expelled, not just Robert Barber, but any students, with a lack of due process," Michael Baumgartner said. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Washington state senator stands up for student due process

Ashe Schow · November 2, 2016 6:50 pm

In the 2008 Democrat primary, Obama readily embraced sexism to sabotage Clinton's political machine. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

Beltway Confidential

‘There’s a reason we haven’t had a woman president before,’ and it’s Barack Obama

Philip Wegmann · November 2, 2016 6:18 pm

At a Miami rally on Wednesday, Donald Trump continued to attack Hillary Clinton over her health. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Trump hits Clinton over exhaustion. Do voters care?

Jason Russell · November 2, 2016 5:38 pm

Did it make sense for the Clinton campaign to attack the FBI director? (AP Photo/File)

Beltway Confidential

Barone: Hillary Clinton’s strategy is puzzling to some Dems

Michael Barone · November 2, 2016 5:23 pm