Tag: OpinionDigest

Sacks of money, right, worth $2 million, and 154 pounds of heroin, left, worth at least $50 million, are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration news conference, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

It’s time to put a rein on civil asset forfeiture

hal-stratton, michael-haugen · July 8, 2015 4:01 am

A conservative case for marriage equality

A conservative case for marriage equality

Gregory Angelo · July 8, 2015 4:01 am

President Barack Obama speaks to Nike Employees and other Oregonians at Nike Headquarters May 8, 2015 in Beaverton, Ore. Obama spoke about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pacts which include the U.S. in a trade agreement with 11 other nations. (Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Fast track to free trade prosperity

Vance Ginn · July 8, 2015 4:01 am

Cultural icons — not always what they seem

Noemie Emery · July 7, 2015 4:01 am

Aetna and Humana, two insurance giants, announced Friday they plan to merge "in the wake of the federal Affordable Care Act and other changes in the healthcare industry." (AP photos)

Beltway Confidential

Obamacare’s fruit: Insurers merge, premiums rise

Timothy P. Carney · July 6, 2015 5:26 pm

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at an annual Women's History Month reception in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images)

Supreme Court says again: Words don’t mean what they say

Michael Barone · July 6, 2015 4:01 am

225.3 million lbs. of fireworks were used in 2014, about 90 percent of which were used by consumers, not spectator displays. (Getty)

Beltway Confidential

Fourth of July, by the numbers

Jason Russell · July 3, 2015 9:00 am

A doctor speaks with a patient.

King v. Burwell is done. Now what?

Yevgeniy Feyman · July 3, 2015 4:01 am

Clarence Thomas' opinions (at this point he has authored over 500) are notable for their clarity, tightness. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Clarence Thomas, gay marriage and the Declaration of Independence

Scott Douglas Gerber · July 3, 2015 4:01 am

This Oct. 12, 2013 file photo shows a 32-foot granite monument honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors that has stood in St. Louis, Missouri's, Forest Park since 1914. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has scratched plans for a formal panel to decide whether the memorial should be moved out of the city's beloved park, instead calling on proposals from people or groups willing to perhaps offer up a public place for the landmark. (AP Photo/Jim Salter, File)

Most oppose removal of Confederate names, landmarks

Byron York · July 3, 2015 12:57 am

The "deeming" rule puts vaping products and their components such as flavors, nicotine concentration levels, e-cigarette batteries, and software under the purview of the Tobacco Control Act. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Taxing e-cigarettes: A lose-lose-lose for the District of Columbia

Gilbert Ross · July 2, 2015 4:01 am

Allen Weinstein served as Achivist of the United States from 2005 to 2008,Â (via Wikimedia commons) andÂ Ben Wattenberg portayed in hisÂ 1991 book,Â The First Universal Nation (via amazon.com)

Two boys from the Bronx who loved America

Michael Barone · July 1, 2015 9:00 pm