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Strasburg anticipates season free of doubts
Questions surface on Gingrich campaign travel payments
CARAFANO: Putting national security at risk
Millennials forced to put lives on hold
Violent crime in D.C. surges in 2012
Oscar a perpetual work in progress
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PRUDEN: The coming end to endless talk about Iran
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Crunch time is coming in Iran, but President Obama and his men act as if they're at the senior prom, trying to dance the minuet without anyone to dance with. Published February 17, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Santorum's hyperbole: Over the top to the guillotine
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Rick Santorum is breaking out of the trenches for a leap at the top, emboldened by winning semi-important caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota and a more or less meaningless primary in Missouri. He recognizes how President Obama put the First Amendment in mortal peril with his order to religious institutions to put conscience aside and obey secular gospel under pain of law, like it or not. Then it was "over the top" in pursuit of principle. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Condoms are only part of it
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Barack Obama thought he was only picking a fight with the Roman Catholic bishops. He thought he could limit the argument over his health care mandate to a controversy over condoms. He's getting a bigger fight than he imagined. Published February 10, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Romney waiting for the big cupcake
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Mitt Romney is dispatching a gallery of rivals, none of whom has ever looked particularly presidential. Can anyone actually say out loud, without a wince, "President Gingrich"? Or "President Paul" (who sounds more like a pope than a president), or "President Santorum"? Nice guys, maybe, but we know where nice guys finish. Published February 7, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: The Gaffe Patrol abandons Newt Gingrich
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Mitt Romney seemed to be asking for a visit from the Gaffe Patrol this week when he told a cable-TV interviewer that he "wasn't concerned about the very poor" because they have "the safety net," the middle class doesn't, and the rich don't need one. Taken in the context of the interview this was unremarkable stuff. Published February 3, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: When the Earth refuses to warm
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Global warming: Been there, done that. Forward-looking folks are adjusting their fretting machinery now to something called Cycle 25. Button up your overcoats. Ice is on the way. Published January 31, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Off to the moon with randy Newt Gingrich
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The great entertainers of our time turn out to be presidents and the men who would be president, and this week most of them are in Florida. This is as good as vaudeville ever was. Newt Gingrich, under siege by ex-wives and trying hard to keep track of the various versions of an autobiography-in-progress, nevertheless soldiers on in his mission to restore family values and "morality" to the nation. Published January 27, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Newt Gingrich and the 'moral thing'
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Politicians can't any longer talk about "moral character" without sounding like a stuffy Baptist deacon or a stiff Presbyterian elder. "Moral character" is no longer important in a presidential campaign, even to many conservatives and evangelicals. If it is important anymore, it is only as a talking point. Published January 24, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: A soap opera for our time
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
This hasn't been much of a presidential primary campaign, but even yellow-dog Democrats have to concede that it's a first-class soap opera. We haven't had sexy scenarios like this since Bubba was a boy. Published January 20, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Another grovel, not a rebuke
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Where's a Porta-Potty when a few good men need one? This is the question Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, ought to concern himself with, instead of trying to top Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, with over-the-top "outrage" over a Marine patrol taking a leak on the bodies of several freshly killed terrorists in Afghanistan. Published January 17, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: A crawl through the fairy dust
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
No one has accused Ron Paul of being a crawler, but he sometimes channels Mr. McGoo with his angry rhetoric against the wars in the Middle East. If he were president, he said last summer, he would bring home the new generation of grunts from Afghanistan "as quickly as the ships could get there." Ships would find it hard going in land-locked Afghanistan, but we take his point. Published January 13, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: 'Obama' is how you spell relief
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Conservatives are fractured, split and mad at each other, brawling like Democrats. There's only one man who can unify the movement. Fortunately for the Grumpy Old Party, Barack Obama is available, ready and eager. Published January 10, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: Castor oil and all the dorks
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
This is the Year of the Dork, and they're all running for president. Published January 6, 2012 Comments
PRUDEN: The night the music stops, or pauses, for GOP presidential candidates
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Tonight's the night the music stops, if only for a pause, and the Republican game of musical chairs eliminates several candidates who have outlived their welcome in living rooms across the land. Published January 3, 2012 Comments
Perry shifts focus from jobs to Job
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times
Delivering stump speeches with more references to the Bible than to the economy, Rick Perry struck out at surging opponent Rick Santorum on Saturday while continuing to paint himself as the socially conservative candidate religious Iowans are looking for. Published December 31, 2011 Comments
PRUDEN: More than Iranian malarkey in the Strait of Hormuz
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
It isn't saber-rattling by Iran that's making noise in the Middle East, but rhetoric-rattling. Nobody does it better. The latest purveyor of big malarkey is the chief of the Iranian navy, who would execute the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz in answer to the Western sanctions against Iran for its work on a nuclear weapon. Published December 30, 2011 Comments
PRUDEN: A little humility at the 'climate research' crossroads
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
"Climate research," the New York Times confidently assures us, "stands at a crossroads." This means that a lot of research scientists are standing at the crossroads, holding out paper bags like trick-or-treaters on Halloween night, standing in line for taxpayer largesse to fill 'em up. Published December 27, 2011 Comments
PRUDEN: The amazing grace of Christmas morn
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
The strip malls and the Main Streets will once more fall silent. The ringing cash registers and the happy cries of children will be but ghostly echoes across silent streets. But the Christ child born in a manger 2,000 years ago lives, liberating the hearts of sinners and transforming the lives of the wicked. Published December 23, 2011 Comments
PRUDEN: Kim Jong-il: Sharing a grave with evil aplenty
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
History loves irony, as Professor Gingrich could (and no doubt will) tell us. Two men renowned for their deeds die more or less on the same day on opposite sides of the world. The bad guy gets the big headline, the good guy makes the front page one last time as a footnote to the times. Published December 20, 2011 Comments
PRUDEN: Winning the war against 'civility'
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
If only the peasants would sit up and pay attention, the liberal nannies could straighten out "the mess" in Washington overnight. Published December 16, 2011 Comments
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Military gay group growing, aiming for more rights
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
An association of gays in the military has more than doubled its membership since last ...
Millennials forced to put lives on hold
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Nicholas Rastenis has been through the wringer. After getting a master’s degree in fine arts ...
Seoul holds military drills despite N. Korean threat
By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press
South Korea conducted live-fire military drills near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea on ...
