Tag: Editorials

Law enforcement agencies have used civil asset forfeiture laws to seize property (not just money but homes, cars, jewelry, electronics and more) on suspicion rather than actual evidence of criminal activity. (AP Photo)

Feds are out-burgling the burglars

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2016 4:01 am

If no candidate has a majority, most convention delegates will become unbound their candidate after the first ballot. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Convention floor fight is no conspiracy

Washington Examiner · April 2, 2016 4:01 am

There are two possible explanations for Trump's response, and neither speaks well of him. (Anthony Wahl/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

Trump misunderstands the pro-life ethos

Washington Examiner · April 1, 2016 4:02 am

Because the Supreme Court lacked the late Justice Antonin Scalia's vote, state and local governments elected with union money and union backing can continue to give unions a sweetheart deal at the expense of unwilling workers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Two big backward steps on unions

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2016 4:01 am

This incident, which can be summed up as an alleged assault, plus lie after lie by Donald Trump's henchmen — falsehoods doubling down on falsehoods — illuminates the Trump ethos. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

The Donald doubles down — of course

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2016 4:01 am

Clinton’s fictional reassurance from the FBI

Washington Examiner · March 29, 2016 4:01 am

Last week, an appellate judge issued a scathing ruling in the IRS targeting scandal -- the one that broke into the news cycle all the way back in 2013. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

What is the IRS hiding?

Washington Examiner · March 28, 2016 11:36 am

Indiana on Thursday became the second state to ban abortions chosen solely because of the unborn child's disability, race or sex. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Defending our culture against eugenics

Washington Examiner · March 26, 2016 4:03 am

Trump's negative rating, at 57 percent, is the highest on record for any candidate at this point in the election cycle as measured by CBS/New York Times polls since they started asking the question in 1984. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Trump the unelectable

Washington Examiner · March 25, 2016 4:01 am

Team Clinton insisted that the President Bill Clinton had been taken out of context by right-wing news sites, but he hadn't. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Clinton distances herself from Obama’s ‘awful’ economy

Washington Examiner · March 24, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama offered 51 seconds' of boilerplate commiseration and solidarity and then spent the afternoon watching a baseball game. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

National Security

No-Drama Obama becomes No-Action Obama

Washington Examiner · March 23, 2016 4:01 am

At the end of their event, Castro tried to raise Obama's arm in a sign of mutual triumph. Obama awkwardly let his wrist go limp, apparently embarrassed at the gesture. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Castro flaps Obama’s limp wrist

Washington Examiner · March 22, 2016 4:01 am