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Paul Krugman's totalitarian temptation

Examiner Editorial"But the logic of his argument leads straight to calling for official restrictions on political speech after shunning inevitably fails to do the job."

Politicians' solutions only encourage violence

Gene. Healy, Examiner Columnist"Airports are 'where we feel the most ill at ease,' Clyburn stated, without explaining why congresspeople would feel especially threatened in areas where they're surrounded by security officials already on the lookout for hidden weapons."

Blame lies with the wicked

Cal Thomas, Examiner Columnist"To end vibrant, even incendiary political rhetoric would require the eradication of politics itself. Other countries have such a system. They're called dictatorships."

Rewarding unbalanced with media guarantees more violence

Hugh Hewitt, Examiner Columnist"The sad, hard truth is that evil in the world and in each and every human being breaks out sometimes into horrific slaughter of innocents. Most of the killers are simply loners who carry the blame, not their parents or schools or video games, not talk radio or the Daily Kos or even the writers of the books on the shelves in their bedrooms."

A trial lawyer at the center of the fake autism scandal

Mark Hemingway, Examiner Columnist"And something tells me that Hollywood is not about to make a movie about how a corrupt trial lawyer paid off a doctor to falsify a boring medical study that ended up killing some children. There's no courtroom drama in that."

From Ike's dilemma to Obama's disaster

James Jay Carafano, Examiner Columnist"Ike was right. Unchecked government leads to unfettered spending -- and that is the real threat to our liberty and our wallets."

Barack Obama, supply sider?

Larry Kudlow, Examiner Columnist"And what's helping light things up? Low-tax-rate clarity. Stopping the pork-barrel, earmarked, omnibus spending bill. And now the potential undermining of Obamacare. Plus, the hope for broad-based spending limits, and even a corporate tax cut touted by Obama and hopefully the new House Republicans."