Tag: OpinionDigest

"The world may have a polling problem." That's the headline on a blogpost by Nate Silver, the wunderkind founder of the fivethirthyeight.com website. (AP)

British pollsters failed in the increasingly difficult struggle to get it right

Michael Barone · May 13, 2015 10:27 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., on Tuesday unveiled a plan to repeal President Obama's healthcare law and replace it with an alternative. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Top House Republican unveils Obamacare replacement

Philip Klein · May 13, 2015 6:54 pm

Gov. Inslee has repeatedly sought to block plans to build shipping terminals that would help revive the fortunes of the coal industry in his state. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

Energy and Environment

Governors stand in the way of energy and growth

John Burnett · May 13, 2015 9:00 am

The Republican-dominated state House of Representatives just approved a whopping 60 percent gas tax hike. If the Republican-controlled state Senate follows suit, Gov. Nikki Haley may be our last hope to stop this assault on state consumers. (AP Photo)

A gas tax hike in deep red South Carolina?

Tim Phillips, Dave Schwartz · May 13, 2015 9:00 am

Health and Human Services Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell testifies on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 23, 2015, before the Senate Appropriations Committee, on the proposed budget estimates and justification for the department. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Latest Democratic ‘war on women’ campaign, fueled by pharma cash

Timothy P. Carney · May 12, 2015 10:00 pm

Framed by balloons, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at Arizona State University Friday, May 8, 2015, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Beltway Confidential

No easy cure for Republican presidential debate chaos

Philip Klein · May 12, 2015 9:09 pm

An abandoned building sits under cloudy skies during a rainy day in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

The right medicine for ailing Puerto Rico

James Glassman · May 12, 2015 9:00 am

President George W. Bush, shakes hands with Navy Petty Officer, Jesse Alvarado, right, after presenting him with the President's Volunteer Service Award Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. Bush, was in Norfolk to take part in the commissioning ceremony for the aircraft carrier, USS George H. W. Bush at Naval Station Norfolk.Â (AP Photo)

To blame and blame not

Noemie Emery · May 12, 2015 9:00 am

"I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody," Jeb Bush said of his brother's decision to go to war with Iraq. "And so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got."

Jeb Bush’s disastrous defense of the Iraq War

Byron York · May 11, 2015 9:04 pm

Beltway Confidential

U.S. Export-Import Bank primarily subsidizes state-owned Chinese firms

Timothy P. Carney · May 11, 2015 8:08 pm

A cybersecurity threat map is displayed inside a lounge during the RSA Conference on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Security breaches prompt unprecedented lobbying for cyber bill

Charlie Mitchell · May 11, 2015 9:00 am

The Scottish National Party has pulled off perhaps the greatest electoral achievement in British history. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Rising SNP failed to persuade Scots, but might induce the English to secede

Dan Hannan · May 11, 2015 9:00 am