Tag: Commentary

Threats to leave the country should be seen for what they are: acts of self-indulgence and a way of letting off steam and conveying to people that they really do not like this candidate. (AP Photo)

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Why 50 million people won’t be fleeing the country on Nov. 9

Daniel Allott · June 7, 2016 11:00 am

The Biloxi-Choctaw villagers on Isle de Jean Charles, La., are not unique in their predicament, being subject to frequent flooding. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Energy and Environment

Rising sea or sinking land?

William Balgord · June 7, 2016 4:46 am

Let’s relocate the federal government

Paul Kupiec · June 7, 2016 4:30 am

The end of the Republican primary race was supposed to help Trump, who would then settle down and become presidential. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg, File)

Five days in June

Noemie Emery · June 7, 2016 4:04 am

The longer Donald Trump seeks to justify the indefensible, the longer the whiff of racism and obduracy will cling to him and damage his electoral chances. (AP Photo)

The strange case of Trump’s judge dread

Washington Examiner · June 7, 2016 4:01 am

Clinton leads 64 percent to 32 percent in Florida according to the CBS Battleground Tracker poll. (AP photos)

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Clinton clinches but Bernie defiant

W. James Antle III · June 7, 2016 1:58 am

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Byron York: Trump’s self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists

Byron York · June 6, 2016 11:17 pm

The accused student's amended complaint includes the claim that Brown University applied a sexual assault policy adopted in 2015 to allegations about something that had happened in 2014. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Four campus sexual assault lawsuits in two weeks

Ashe Schow · June 6, 2016 8:46 pm

(Images courtesy screenshot)

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WATCH: Mexican teachers’ union subjects enemies to brutal bullying

Jason Russell · June 6, 2016 7:36 pm

Freedom of conscience, which includes religious liberty, is a bigger deal than "defending the freedom of bigots to be bigots," as some put it. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

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Do Humanae Vitae Catholics and other alternative-lifestyle types fit in the Libertarian tent?

Timothy P. Carney · June 6, 2016 6:49 pm

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How much do politicians in your state make?

Jason Russell · June 6, 2016 4:57 pm

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Hillary Clinton can’t condemn violent protesters without victim-blaming

Ashe Schow · June 6, 2016 3:32 pm