Tag: OpinionDigest

So many other no-chance GOP candidates are failing to show the same dignity as Graham. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Byron York: Lindsey Graham’s bitter, comic turn

Byron York · December 4, 2015 3:34 am

This week, the Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed that at least 29,000 American combat veterans are being prevented from obtaining their health care benefits. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

It’s time to fix the issues plaguing the VA

Thom Tillis · December 3, 2015 5:03 am

Since mid-July Donald Trump has been leading in the national polls, except for a moment early last month when he was effectively tied with Ben Carson. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

The state of play in the Republican race

Michael Barone · December 2, 2015 11:13 pm

In a new Quinnipiac national poll of the 2016 presidential races, the candidates whom voters view as least honest and trustworthy are leading the pack. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Byron York: Voters don’t want honest. They want strong.

Byron York · December 2, 2015 1:18 pm

Phil Roe: "I think we can all agree that No Child Left Behind was well-intentioned, but it has failed our students and made things more difficult for our educators." (AP Photo)

Restoring local control to K-12 education

Rep. Phil Roe · December 2, 2015 5:03 am

These days, some on the Left -- journalists, the abortion industry and presidential candidates -- want to blame the pro-life movement for a madman's shooting at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Opinions don’t kill people — people kill people

Timothy P. Carney · December 1, 2015 10:56 pm

The media and Democrats hate Ted Cruz for all the usual reasons they hate outspoken conservatives. But in less than four years in the Senate, Cruz has given Republicans numerous reasons to dislike him as well. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Can a man who specializes in making enemies be elected president?

Daniel Allott · December 1, 2015 10:00 pm

Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, questions VA Secretary Robert McDonald during a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, July 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

The VA isn’t fooling anyone with its excuses

Rep Tim Huelskamp · December 1, 2015 5:02 am

While student hysterics are nothing too novel, what is new is this sense of excessive fragility in which they demand as a right a complete insulation from all things unpleasant. (AP Photo)

Whither the snowflakes?

Noemie Emery · December 1, 2015 5:01 am

President Obama said "under certain circumstances" the Guantanamo ban "would violate constitutional separation of powers principles." (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Byron York: The coming battle over Guantanamo and the imperial presidency

Byron York · November 30, 2015 9:34 pm

"I was contacted last week by the administration for a position at [the U.S. Export-Import] Bank, but I am not the right person for export financing for Boeing et al," the applicant wrote. (AP file photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Ex-Im applicant turned away: ‘I am not the right person for export financing for Boeing et al’

Timothy P. Carney · November 30, 2015 9:28 pm

"If you had people like me in that room and somebody starts shooting, I guarantee you, we're going down shooting." (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

‘Fact-checking’ memories

Hugh Hewitt · November 29, 2015 10:00 pm