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ALLOTT: Obama's contraception plan won't cut pregnancies
By Daniel Allott - The Washington Times
The continuing debate over whether and how religious organizations should be forced to offer free contraceptives to their employees rests on a seemingly airtight premise: that greater access to contraceptives will lower rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
YOSHIHARA: As China goes geriatric, we have the advantage
By Susan Yoshihara - The Washington Times
Washington is all abuzz about China’s heir apparent, Vice President Xi Jinping, arriving in town Tuesday. Even the Pentagon is rolling out the red carpet for the man who will rule the country that may soon topple U.S. primacy in Asia. Indeed, China is ramping up a military that already can harm American interests in the region. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
MILLER: How Obama will waste your money
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
President Obama clings to the fantasy that he can tax and spend the country out of malaise and into prosperity. Instead of showing restraint in the face of our $15.4 trillion debt, the budget he released Monday included $1.5 trillion in new outlays that will ensure plenty of cash for programs that inspire his liberal base in an election year. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
EDITORIAL: The Romney-Santorum footrace
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney won The Washington Times/CPAC 2012 Presidential Straw Poll Saturday, with 38 percent of 3,408 voters saying he’s their first choice to be the Republican nominee. Former Sen. Rick Santorum wasn’t far behind at 31 percent. That’s a close call, but a win is a win. Taking home the crown from the Conservative Political Action Conference shows Mr. Romney is making inroads with the skeptical conservative base of the Republican Party. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
GHEI: Downgrading Europe
By Nita Ghei - The Washington Times
As the smoke cleared from another weekend of riots in Athens, more gloom descended on Europe. On Tuesday, Moody’s Investors Service dished out downgrades for Italy, Spain and Portugal, among others. Though Austria, France and the United Kingdom hang on to their valued AAA ratings, Moody’s slapped them with a negative outlook. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
LAMBRO: Obama’s proposed budgetary house of cards
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
Two things you need to know about President Obama’s nearly $4 trillion budget for fiscal 2013: It will likely add another $1 trillion to a $15.3 trillion debt, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will not act on any full budget plan this year. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
HOLTZ-EAKIN: Get moving on spectrum auction
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin - The Washington Times
As congressional gridlock continues, there is a lot more at stake than payroll taxes, unemployment benefits, doctors’ payments, improving job growth and a better budget outlook. Too often good policy gets forgotten amid financial decisions. Unfortunately, spectrum auctions are treated as merely a budgetary means to pay for other programs. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
RUANE: Getting America moving means more roads
By T. Peter Ruane - The Washington Times
In today’s Washington, transportation funding has become just another political football. It’s been 28 months since the last law expired, and Congress, driven by bitter partisan bickering, has failed to agree to a new one. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
ARMSTRONG: Obamacare grants doctors liberty to withhold care
By Dr. Richard A. Armstrong - The Washington Times
If you haven’t noticed it yet, you soon will. The Obama administration has launch-ed a full-court press to sell the president’s “signature” achievement, Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, to the American public as well as to the 800,000 American physicians it directly impacts. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
POE: Obama’s executive power grab
By Rep. Ted Poe - The Washington Times
On Jan. 4, stargazers all over the world were dazzled by the very first meteor shower of 2012. The West Virginia Mountaineers beat the Clemson Tigers in the Orange Bowl. Politicos were busy spinning the results of the Iowa Caucus. The payroll-tax saga was still fresh in our minds, and the camera lights were dark on Capitol Hill. Published February 14, 2012 Comments
RAHN: Obama has no Plan B
By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times
President Obama has just presented his new budget, which again ignores reality. It contains another trillion-dollar deficit, which assumes a large increase in revenue resulting from a tax-rate increase on “the wealthy” and corporations. He knows, and so does everyone else, that Congress is not going to pass the tax increase. Published February 13, 2012 Comments
GIROUX: Killer compromise
By By Jenn Giroux - The Washington Times
Ominous silence has ruled America for too long on arguably the most controversial and devastating issue of the day, but as is so often seen in history, oppression gives rise to courage. Published February 13, 2012 Comments
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bishops' ire over contraception welcome
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The Obama administration's decision to mandate contraceptive coverage, including abortifacients and sterilization, in health insurance plans offered by religious institutions such as colleges and hospitals has awakened the wrath of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ("Contraception compromising comes to end," Page 1, Monday). Published February 13, 2012
SCHNEIDER: Union political machine sputters in Wisconsin
By Christian Schneider - The Washington Times
To this day, Wisconsin liberals genuflect at the mention of "Fighting Bob" La Follette, the state's most revered political figure, who served as governor and U.S. senator and won 17 percent of the vote as a Progressive Party candidate for president in 1924. Published February 13, 2012
GAFFNEY: Shariah's police?
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
Over the weekend, a drama with potentially horrific consequences for freedom-loving Americans played out half-a-world away. A Saudi newspaper columnist named Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia, reportedly on the basis of an alert by Interpol. "This arrest was part of an Interpol operation which the Malaysian police were a part of," Reuters quotes a Malaysian police spokesman as saying. Published February 13, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: 'Living Originalism'
By Robert VerBruggen - Special to The Washington Times
The central tension in American constitutional law for decades has been between originalists and advocates of a "living Constitution." Originalists say the meaning of the Constitution does not change over time - and in order to figure out what the Constitution means, judges and other interpreters should study the time period in which it was enacted and try to ascertain what it meant to the people involved. Published February 13, 2012
FEULNER: A nation of takers
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
Americans pride themselves on being a self-reliant people. We know that the freedom to make our own fortune sets us apart from the people of many other nations. It's what has drawn to our shores generations of immigrants - men and women risking their lives to live a life in which they, not the government, are in charge. Published February 13, 2012
ROEMER: China's trade aggression threatens mutual ties
By Buddy Roemer - The Washington Times
Welcome back to America, Xi Jinping. I have been to China many times and enjoyed eating scorpion in Jinan and studying the pandas near Chengdu. I fell in love with the Chinese people and their love for America. Published February 13, 2012
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