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  • Papa John's pizza firm implores bloggers: Stop the misquotes

    By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

    Papa John’s pizza has been hounded by the media for comments supposedly made in response to Obamacare — that food prices were on the rise, that franchises would face closure due to escalating health care costs, that workers’ hours and positions would be sliced. Published January 29, 2013 Comments

  • Nine House seats still undecided

    By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

    One of the loudest mouths in Congress is trying to preserve his voice, as Republican Rep. Allen B. West is pushing back at election results in South Florida that show him trailing his Democratic challenger by a razor-thin margin. Published November 8, 2012 Comments

  • Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, left, listens as rival candidate for U.S. Senate former Gov. George Allen talks during their first debate at the Capital One Conference Center in Tysons Corner, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. This is the first of three debates in what is a very close race. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Kaine open to minimum tax

    By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

    Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine said he would be open to having a minimum federal income-tax level for all people during a wide-ranging debate with Republican rival George Allen on Thursday afternoon, as both candidates ready themselves for the stretch run in their closely watched race. Published September 20, 2012 Comments

  • Sean Penn devoted to helping a country in need of everything

    By Ben Fox and Trenton Daniel - Associated Press

    Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. But the actor who stormed onto the scene of one of the worst natural disasters in history certainly has not lost interest. Published April 23, 2012 Comments

  • ** FILE ** Then-U.S. Chief District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District of California speaks at a legal conference in Seattle in November 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    California judges asked to say if they are gay

    By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

    It used to be considered bad form to out gay public figures - but now California judges are being asked to reveal their sexual identities in the name of diversity. Published March 1, 2012 Comments

Recent Articles
  • DONOVAN: Redefining marriage — above the Supreme Court's pay grade

    By Chuck Donovan

    Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the abortion debate once and for all, anxious activists on both sides of the homosexual-marriage debate are waiting with bated breath for high court rulings some hope will settle the future of marriage. Published June 19, 2013

  • Pedestrians injured in crash near Union Station

    By Celina Durgin - The Washington Times

    Seven people were injured in a crash involving two vehicles near Union Station on Wednesday morning in which three pedestrians were struck. Published June 19, 2013

  • LYONS: Serious Syrian misstep — by arming the rebels, we're aiding al Qaeda

    By James A. Lyons

    Underlying the chaotic situation throughout the Middle East is the Obama administration's dysfunctional political strategy of switching sides in the Arab Spring revolutionary wars. Published June 19, 2013

  • TRIPLETT: Railroading the Keystone XL pipeline

    By William C. Triplett II

    The rumors had been circulating in Washington for weeks, but Bloomberg brought it above the waterline on Thursday: "At closed-door fundraisers held over the past few weeks, the president has been telling Democratic Party donors that he will unveil new climate proposals in July." Published June 19, 2013

  • D.C. police seek man in women's stabbings

    By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

    D.C. police are investigating four seemingly related late-night attacks in Northwest neighborhoods in which a man approached women from behind and stabbed them. Published June 19, 2013

  • PIPES: What Turkey's riots mean

    By Daniel Pipes

    Rebellion has shaken Turkey since May 31. Is it comparable to the Arab upheavals that overthrew four rulers since 2011, to Iran's Green Movement of 2009 that led to an apparent reformer being elected president last week, or perhaps to Occupy Wall Street, which had negligible consequences? Published June 19, 2013

  • TAUBE: An unexpected victory for the Second Amendment

    By Michael Taube

    Last year, President Obama was eagerly moving forward with his personal war against guns. He was ready to ignore the Second Amendment and hoped to change the way Americans viewed gun ownership as a fundamental right. Published June 19, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: The microwave tax

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    The Energy Department is once more deciding what kind of appliances are good for you. Like the "standards" the federal government imposed on light bulbs, toilets, washing machines and other essentials, the rules are all about taking choices from consumers and requiring them to buy machines that don't work or don't work as well as they once did. Published June 19, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: Transgenders and toilets

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    Forget tolerance. What many on the left are after is imposing their views on just about everything on just about everyone, with judges serving as willing accomplices. Published June 19, 2013

  • LAMBRO: Obama flees from scandal overseas

    By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

    It is a well-known axiom of presidential politics that when things aren't going well at home, chief executives go abroad. Published June 19, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: Hugo's gun dream

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    Anew law in Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. Published June 19, 2013

  • Fairfax teen electrocuted while playing on roof of school

    By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

    A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday night after being electrocuted by a live wire while playing on the roof of a Herndon elementary school, according to police. Published June 19, 2013

  • ALLARD: Rolling popcorn

    By Wayne Allard

    Thanks to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there's a new threat facing motorcyclists nationwide, and possibly all Americans. Published June 19, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: The urge to retreat

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    Squishy Republicans are the first to insist the party must move leftward any time an election doesn't go their way. Squish is a hard sell in other places, too, as British Prime Minister David Cameron is learning. Published June 18, 2013

  • D.C. man dead after shooting family member in attempted murder-suicide

    By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

    A man shot and injured a family member and fatally shot himself Tuesday morning in the Northwest D.C. Petworth neighborhood. Published June 18, 2013

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