Tag: Commentary

The Labor Department is quite simply putting the interests of labor unions before the common good and the need to grow jobs. (Getty Images)

New and dangerous labor rule hurts small businesses

Leslie Rutledge · June 8, 2016 4:02 am

Ellmers' record earned her the love of K Street groups and the ire of conservative groups. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)

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Pro-life, anti-corporate welfare groups beat Trump-backed GOP congresswoman Ellmers

Timothy P. Carney · June 8, 2016 1:57 am

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The fall of Renee Ellmers

Ashe Schow · June 8, 2016 12:51 am

Donald Trump, the liberal Hillary Clinton donor who has conned Republicans into nominating him for president, has shown this week that he thinks like a (slightly addled) liberal on judges. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Donald Trump’s view of judges is disqualifying

Timothy P. Carney · June 7, 2016 10:36 pm

Austin Bay's first column takes on Katie Couric's intentionally dishonest Yahoo TV documentary on guns. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

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Austin Bay takes on media and government liars

Michael Barone · June 7, 2016 9:47 pm

Stephen Henderson's anti-public charter school column is wrong in many ways. But that's not the point. (iStock)

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No place for violent words in education debates

Jason Russell · June 7, 2016 9:29 pm

If Trump had cited the HNBA boycott, Donald Trump could have focused on the judge's associations and activities, instead of his race and ethnicity. (AP Photo)

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Byron York: An alternate scenario of Trump’s judge problem

Byron York · June 7, 2016 8:06 pm

The final survey sample consisted of 29 intercollegiate athletes, 159 recreational athletes (those not on intercollegiate teams but who train and compete, though not nationally or internationally) and 191 non-athletes. (iStock photo)

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No, half of college athletes are not rapists

Ashe Schow · June 7, 2016 7:22 pm

Rebekah Johansen Bydlak's six-figure haul is a rare bright spot. (Courtesy of Rebekah Johansen Bydlak Facebook)

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One of the youngest House candidates had big fundraising haul

W. James Antle III · June 7, 2016 5:52 pm

Chronic absenteeism is more common in high school: Roughly one in 5.5 students, versus one in nine for elementary students. (iStock photo)

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Shocking number of students are ‘chronically absent’

Jason Russell · June 7, 2016 5:21 pm

The study was the to look at which demographics and policy opinions predict opposition to Common Core. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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What kind of people oppose Common Core?

Jason Russell · June 7, 2016 4:54 pm

No one outside of Turner's father looks at what he did and thinks it was not rape. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)

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The Stanford swimmer isn’t part of rape culture; he’s just a sexual offender

Ashe Schow · June 7, 2016 3:50 pm