Washington Examiner (Opinion) Media Bias for Past 90 Days

The surest sign the presidential primary system is broken

Here is a thought for both parties as they head toward 2024: beware that large, diverse crowd of talented newcomers. It will do you no good. This has been tried two times before and has led to disaster.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Mar 02, 2021

Janet Yellen’s disappointing transformation from economist to politician

After all, she is a former chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and has a doctorate from Yale University and decades of experience working at the top levels of the field of economics. But Yellen's early tenure as treasury secretary in the Biden administration is quickly tarnishing that reputation — because her convenient flip-flopping on key economic issues can only be explained by newfound political ambitions.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 25, 2021

Why pen and phone keep prevailing

“Is congressional inaction a legitimate basis for Article 2 to decide it just must act because it wishes policy were different and legislation doesn’t move?” Sasse asked, continuing, “Therefore, you have a pen and a phone. Can you just act because Congress didn't?”
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 24, 2021

How the GOP can win back Congress

History is also on the Right's side, with Democrats in charge of both chambers and President Biden pushing a leftist, go-at-it-alone agenda. Put simply, Democrats are helping to unify the Republican Party.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 22, 2021

Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton just abandoned fiscal conservatism

Author Michael Malice famously said that “conservatism is just progressivism driving the speed limit.” The latest big government stunt from two prominent Republican senators certainly supports this claim.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 20, 2021

Easy narratives and lazy journalism betray Rwanda

The trial of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier made famous by Don Cheadle’s portrayal in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, began this week in Kigali. Hollywood made Rusesabagina a hero. Certainly, Rusesabagina did display heroism when he sheltered over a thousand Rwandans from a Hutu mob bent on their murder. But Rusesabagina’s actions a quarter-century ago cannot excuse his subsequent actions.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 19, 2021

The 1776 Commission and American education

One of the clearest signs that we are in a debate over the central meaning of our country, and therefore of our rights and of us, is the controversy about the status of the American founding. That controversy rages. I was appointed chairman of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission by former President Donald Trump. Its purpose was to advise on chiefly two things: preparing for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 and proposing ways to teach American history better.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 19, 2021

Should Biden really try to revive manufacturing?

A good way to understand the United States is to listen to one of the great native sons, Mark Twain. With all this talk about President Biden's national industrial strategy to "build back better," Twain's timely advice is this: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 17, 2021

A liberal defense of the filibuster

crime, law and justice

While the same bill must pass both the House and the Senate to become law, the two chambers handle legislation differently. Will the Left try to change the legislative process permanently just to notch a few temporary policy victories?
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 16, 2021

It's time for Joe Manchin's big test

politics

Having lost control of the Senate, conservatives are now forced to watch Sen. Joe Manchin closely. In a 50-50 Senate, the West Virginia Democrat will decide which parts of President Biden’s agenda can
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 14, 2021

Lockdowns pushed us online, polarizing us more

I can't be the only rightist who was left feeling dizzy and disoriented when the Republicans veered off in new directions under former President Donald Trump. All sorts of ideas that had previously been central to American conservatism, including strict constitutionalism, fiscal discipline, free trade, and a readiness to deploy proportionate force in the national interest, were suddenly suspect. Sticking to them made you a RINO. Politicians who had previously been seen as ideological hard-liners, such as Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, were, by the 2016 primaries, dismissed as establishment insiders but had fallen in behind Trump by 2020.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 08, 2021

Countering China, Biden rightly doubles down on the Quad

economy and finances

As Japan's Kyodo news outlet accurately reported on Sunday, Biden wants to organize a video summit with the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan. While such a summit would be more symbolic than policy-focused, it would send an important early signal that the Biden administration intends to build upon this important new alliance structure. The signal will be an especially valuable boost to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In recent months, Australia has suffered an escalating Chinese trade war. Beijing's economic campaign is designed to persuade Morrison that he should abandon his support for U.S. security policies in the Asia-Pacific or face economic gloom. Similarly, India has suffered People's Liberation Army maneuvers designed to degrade Modi's credibility as a nationalist leader capable of turning his nation into a major geopolitical actor.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 07, 2021

What John Kerry meant when he said 'somebody like me'

That's why all these Democratic mayors, governors, and even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have been caught violating their own screeching about staying home to stop the spread. They are hypocrites who get a thrill out of telling people to reduce their standards of living for the good of others while they live very comfortably.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 03, 2021

When the pandemic ends, don't thank Biden

During the second presidential debate last fall, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged to "end" the pandemic. It was an easy promise to make while standing next to President Donald Trump, who had mishandled the crisis. But reality is much more complicated than campaign pledges.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 03, 2021

A wealth tax won't save the economy from COVID-19

Imagine enduring the coronavirus lockdowns without Amazon, Facebook, and Zoom. We couldn't have continued to function. And many more hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we couldn't find
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Feb 01, 2021

Infectious disease expert says wearing two masks could enhance ability to get infected by COVID-19

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Michael Osterholm, who was a member of the Biden Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board, gave a second opinion after Dr. Anthony Fauci said last week that doubling up on face masks “likely” provides more protection than wearing just one mask.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Jan 31, 2021

The fall of the shah

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, was deposed during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The stark, powerful images of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s radical supporters cheering the monarchy’s collapse left a lasting impression in the West. The fall of the shah marked the rise of Islamism as a force in international politics and, for many Americans, still serves as a reminder of the dangers of propping up unpopular foreign rulers.
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Jan 29, 2021

Doubts grow in freedom's last redoubt

Free speech as both a principle and an operational element of Western democracy is more threatened today than in living memory. News media, cardinal beneficiaries of the First Amendment, are among the
Washington Examiner (Opinion)     Jan 29, 2021