Conn Carroll

2 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Conn Carroll

If the White House is planning on unveiling a “new cultural agenda” designed to “reverse declining birthrates,” as the New York Times reports, it better explain why birthrates are falling and how they can be fixed, which the New York Times never does. Throughout her article, Caroline Kitchener often mentions “declining birth and marriage rates” together, but she never articulates the link between the two. And it is really just simple math.

3 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Conn Carroll

Just two years after successfully electing a 37-year-old with no experience outside city government as mayor of Oakland, government unions secured another victory for their preferred candidate this month, ensuring 79-year-old Barbara Lee won’t touch their pensions or force them to show up to work. That 37-year-old, Sheng Thao, has since been recalled after the FBI indicted her on corruption charges related to the city’s waste management contract.

3 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Conn Carroll

It is the most anticipated global event every month. Thousands of analysts from around the world sit poised at their computers. Board meetings come to a halt. Government officials look at their phones. At 8:29 a.m., the world collectively sighs. It is “Jobs Day,” and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is about to release the monthly jobs report.

6 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Conn Carroll

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, but the objections Democrats and their media allies have raised about his deportation to El Salvador stretch far beyond his case and reveal their goal of undermining Trump’s ability to deport anyone. As The Washington Post’s Jason Willick correctly notes, the Democrats erred in choosing to focus on Abrego Garcia as a hero of Trump resistance.

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Conn Carroll

Democrats like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) may have called the Supreme Court “evil” after it held that the Clean Air Act didn’t empower the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate coal plants out of existence, but now Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is citing that very precedent in his new suit challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.