Tag: OpinionDigest

Trump is also weighing the creation of an advisory committee on VA reform. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Holding the VA accountable

Gus Bilirakis · November 28, 2015 5:01 am

Even now, the VA claims that it does not have the authority to enroll backlogged combat veterans into the benefit programs they have earned. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Yet another Veterans Affairs backlog

Rep. Doug Lamborn · November 27, 2015 5:02 am

Sixty-three percent of consumers say they only buy products and services that appeal to their beliefs, values, or ideals and 73 percent of millennials believe that businesses should share a point of view about issues. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

Black Friday and the faith driven consumer

Chris Stone · November 27, 2015 5:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Holiday gift guide: The best campaign swag

Jason Russell · November 25, 2015 11:00 pm

At issue is the Home Marketing Incentive Program and the Appraisal Value Offer Program, which many members of Congress say have been abused by top VA workers. (AP Photo)

VA should look inward for examples of functionality

Stephen Kruiser · November 25, 2015 5:01 am

Demanding transparency from the ‘most transparent administration in history’

Demanding transparency from the ‘most transparent administration in history’

Washington Examiner · November 25, 2015 5:01 am

Companies that have more than 50 full-time employees had to start tracking this year their insurance coverage provided to workers. Businesses below 50 employees are exempt. (AP Photo)

As exchanges falter, team Obamacare fights for an insurer bailout

Timothy P. Carney · November 25, 2015 1:41 am

It began with the speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany in June 2008, when Barack Obama took his act to an international audience. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Words and the wise

Noemie Emery · November 24, 2015 5:01 am

The IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Justice and the VA landed on the more-disliked end of the spectrum. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Which federal agencies do Americans hate most?

Jason Russell · November 24, 2015 12:59 am

"I got elected three times as a Republican governor, a conservative Republican governor ... in New York state -- a state with 3 million more Democrats," George Pataki told the Examiner. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

George Pataki walked into my bar in New Hampshire

Timothy P. Carney · November 23, 2015 8:07 pm

The last Belgian election was won by a party that favors self-rule, and French and Dutch-speaking populations are identifying less with the national institutions. But where does this leave, say, a Moroccan-origin boy from Molenbeek? (AP Photo)

To understand France’s jihadis, look at where they came from

Dan Hannan · November 23, 2015 5:01 am

When terrorists attack D.C., the city will be traumatized, but not entirely shocked. (Examiner file)

D.C. on (quiet) edge

Hugh Hewitt · November 22, 2015 10:00 pm