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The other North Korean threat

As the U.S. and its allies consider how to confront the North Korean menace, the Kim Jong Un regime's ability to employ fanatical and highly trained special forces in numbers comparable to the entire U.S. Marine Corps must be taken into careful consideration...  Read more

The options for Republicans if Obamacare repeal fails

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously warned Republicans that if they failed to reach an agreement they would have to work with Democrats to fix the healthcare law, and he reiterated that position Tuesday...  Read more

Medicine's shameful silence on silencers

Instead of taking a leadership role on gun silencers, medical organizations have indulged their prejudices and remained silent to the detriment of their patients...  Read more

Systemic Racism Is Everywhere and Nowhere

Is the publishing industry racist? It's hard to say when some organizations don't bother studying causality...  Read more

Congress plans to step in to end confusion over self-driving cars

The House and Senate are expected to introduce complimentary bills as soon as Tuesday meant to reduce confusion between the states and federal government when it comes to regulating self-driving cars...  Read more

How Trump can make America make more

President Trump's best route to ensuring things are still made in America is to avoid protectionism, which he sometimes appears to favor...  Read more

Facing failure on healthcare, Republicans back to Obamacare repeal square one

The Senate Republican leadership abandoned an effort to immediately replace Obamacare after failing to whip enough votes to pass the Better Care and Reconciliation Act...  Read more

We aim for energy domination

A day after Secretary of Energy Rick Perry toured a coal-fired power plant in northern West Virginia, the former Texas governor sat down with the Washington Examiner at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in suburban Pittsburgh...  Read more

He Still Hasn't Torn It Up

Donald Trump hates the Iran nuclear deal. Brokered by the Obama administration and officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...  Read more

EPA mulls unions' ideas for a Trump 'clean coal' power plan

Conservative groups and clean energy advocates both say that if the EPA goes the route of a replacement rule, a Trump Clean Power Plan would most likely favor existing coal-fired power plants by rewarding them for improving boiler heat-rate efficiency...  Read more

Legislative deadlines pile up in Congress

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he would be willing to postpone his chamber's recess as suggested only if the Senate sent the House its healthcare reform bill...  Read more

Mike Pence presses forward as Russia probe heats up

Vice President Mike Pence has a long history in the conservative movement...  Read more

Senate Republicans don't trust leaders' Obamacare repeal process

A lack of confidence in the legislative process is complicating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's effort to corral enough Republican votes to open the floor debate on repealing Obamacare...  Read more

This Is How the Legislative Livermush Gets Made

The Republican health care bills are like the moldy mystery meat in the back of your refrigerator...  Read more

Official Washington doubts Trump's 3 percent growth target

Janet Yellen says it would be "challenging," while the Congressional Budget Office sees Trump's policies raising growth only one-tenth of a percentage point...  Read more

Republican leaders try to flip wary centrists on healthcare bill

Senate leadership faces a monumental task of winning support from key centrists, especially after leaving in place more than $700 billion in Medicaid cuts...  Read more

Out of the spotlight, Social Security rots in the dark

The longer Congress waits to act on Social Security, the more painful the eventual fix, or the wrenching failure will be...  Read more

Freedom Partners pushes Republicans to drop border adjustment, red-state Democrats to back tax reform

Freedom Partners is launching ads asking House Republicans to oppose border adjustment and red-state Senate Democrats to support the group's preferred method of tax reform...  Read more