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  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to attract voters more interested in social issues before Tuesday's contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado. He failed to win any of the three. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    Hot-button social issues burst back onto radar in GOP race

    By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

    It’s no longer just the economy, stupid. Social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and religious freedom have elbowed their way back into the political debate in the 2012 presidential race. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • **FILE** Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press)

    House passes bill giving president line-item veto

    By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

    The House has taken the unusual move of agreeing to cede some of its highly guarded purse string power to the White House, voting Wednesday to give the president a modified line-item veto on spending bills. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

    Worried conservatives descend on Washington

    By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

    Bound by a common desire to deny President Obama a second term, restive activists gathering Thursday for the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington find themselves lacking a clear champion in the suddenly scrambled Republican race to choose an alternative. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • **FILE** An auction sign is shown outside the Fremont, Calif., headquarters for bankrupt solar company Solyndra headquarters on Oct. 31, 2011, before the auction on the following day. Solyndra received a $500 million loan guarantee from the government before filing for bankruptcy in September. (Associated Press)

    Solyndra sold assets cheap for fast cash

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Fast running out of money, solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC last summer sold off nearly $60 million worth of inventory for less than $20 million in cash to a newly formed corporate entity closely tied to the company’s biggest investors, records show. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Syrians gather Feb. 8, 2012, in Doha to protest the use of Russia's veto against the amended resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council. (Associated Press)

    Critics slam Obama’s handling of Arab Spring

    By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

    Growing instability from Syria to Egypt highlights the Obama administration’s failure to develop a consistent strategy for promoting democracy in the wake of popular uprisings in the region, analysts say. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Rep. Eric Cantor

    Cantor strips stricter lobbying rules from STOCK Act

    By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

    House Republicans will try Thursday to push through a popular bill that ensures insider-trading rules apply to members of Congress after GOP leaders ditched a provision to expand the definition of who qualifies as a lobbyist. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks Feb. 7, 2012, as his wife Karen (right) listens during a primary night watch party in St. Charles, Mo. (Associated Press)

    Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tuesday night

    By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

    Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican presidential nomination to Mitt Romney’s turf. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential candidate, is prayed over after speaking at the Bella Donna Chapel in McKinney, Texas, on Wednesday. Mr. Santorum won Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

    Santorum eager to buildon momentum after wins

    By Brian Bakst and Jack Gillum - Associated Press

    One day after Rick Santorum’s startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign organizations from scratch. It was evidence of his challenge in converting sudden momentum into victories in future contests. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • FILE - This Feb. 20, 2011 file photo shows freshman at the University of Montana, from left, Jake Coburn, Stephanie Ralls and Claire Dal Nogare, visiting a statue of Jesus Christ at Whitefish Mountain Resort Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 in Whitefish, Mont. An atheist group has filed a lawsuit demanding the removal of this mountaintop Jesus statue on federal land in northwestern Montana after the U.S. Forest Service reversed itself amid an outcry and said the statue could stay. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Linda Thompson, File)

    Inside the Beltway

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    “The gift of being underestimated is a great gift.” Published February 8, 2012 Comments

Recent Articles

  • U.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence

    By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

    The Obama administration says it is not considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar Assad from power. Diplomatic efforts at the U.N. have collapsed. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Political online ads go viral, but are they viable?

    By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

    Once upon a time, political ads were simple, falling into two cliched categories: warm 'n' fuzzy soft-focus personal appeals and scathing critiques of rival candidates, rife with unflattering photographs and exploding hydrogen bombs. No longer. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Inside Politics

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

    House Republicans are proposing to make federal employees pay more toward their pensions while reducing benefits in order to pay for highway programs. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Obama edges ahead of Romney in Va. in new poll

    By Dave Boyer and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

    President Obama has moved ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Virginia for the first time in Quinnipiac University's polling, according to a survey released Wednesday. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • House GOP introduces its insider trading bill

    By Larry Margasak - Associated Press

    House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from collecting their government pensions. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Congress tries to give Obama line-item veto

    By Jim Abrams - Associated Press

    The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican and Democratic presidents. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • In about-face, Obama campaign to ramp up super PAC

    By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

    The Obama campaign's abrupt reversal on super PACs this week — from bashing the "independent" political groups as destructive to embracing their fundraising muscle — has opened the president's re-election team to charges of hypocrisy and blatant political expediency. Published February 7, 2012 Comments

  • Former Sen. Bob Kerrey not running again for Neb. seat

    By Margery A. Beck - Associated Press

    Former Sen. Bob Kerrey said Tuesday he will not run for the Nebraska Senate seat he gave up more than a decade ago, shutting down hopes for a bid both parties called Democrats' best chance to hold the seat. Published February 7, 2012 Comments

  • Clint Eastwood: 'I am certainly not affiliated with Obama'

    By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

    Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight on the Chrysler Super Bowl ad and claims in the liberal blogosphere and elsewhere that it was an implicit endorsement of President Obama and his decision to support the bailout of the U.S. auto industry. Published February 7, 2012 Comments

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