By John Solomon - The Washington Times
Across the table at one of Washington’s classic power restaurants, my source sat smiling. We hadn’t seen each other for more than six years. After the usual opening small talk and pleasantries, I posed the question I had come to dinner to ask. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Warren L. Dean Jr.
There is an old proverb that goes something like this: From the mouths of babes and drunks comes the truth. It is pretty dated. If you were to create that proverb today, you might have to include politicians and their advisers. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Richard Rahn - The Washington Times
Every few years, at least from the time of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, there is a scandal involving abuse of power at the Internal Revenue Service. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
With each developing scandal, the picture of an arrogant administration abusing its power grows clearer. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
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For Al Gore, it’s “a sad milestone.” Scientists have announced that the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has reached a “record” level of 400 parts per million. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
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The City Council in Takoma Park, Md., prides itself as living on the cutting edge of liberalism. The small town bristles at life in the left-leaning shadow of the District of Columbia, and often tries to go one small step further left. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Tim Burrack
When Americans suspect that the United States is “becoming Europe,” we don’t mean that our art museums are getting a lot better. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Peter Parisi - The Washington Times
“Keep sex and politics out of Scouting.” Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The political travails of the Affordable Care Act - aka Obamacare - continue, as witnessed by the furor surrounding Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ attempts to solicit funds to pay for its implementation. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews
Ever since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have implied that he had the makings of a dictator. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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The Vietnam War and the “war on poverty” are probably the best-remembered elements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy, but that’s only part of it. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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The deficit is shrinking, but it’s too soon to celebrate a return to sanity. America is still sinking more into debt by the minute and is still on a path to ruin. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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Socialism has finally hit the fan in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, though he checked out just in time to miss it. He left millions of Venezuelans struggling to clean up the mess. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Frank T. Csongos - Special to The Washington Times
In his sweeping, intelligent and enormously ambitious book, British historian Brendan Simms argues that whoever controls Central Europe can dominate the world. Published May 21, 2013
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On Memorial Day, we all have a chance to remember the real peace marchers of the world. Published May 21, 2013
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Thank you for running "Countdown: The Benghazi scandal" by Rowan Scarborough (page A1, May 17) and giving it proper coverage on the front page. We subscribe to both the Washington Post and The Washington Times, and as usual the Post downplayed the Benghazi scandal; there was no mention of it on the front page. Published May 21, 2013
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Some in the press dismiss the Benghazi congressional investigation as mere partisan politics. Their audience needs to know what this is really about. Published May 21, 2013
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Some historians whisper that we are more divided now than we were on the eve of the Civil War, while certain high officers in the executive branch of the federal government are engaged in unabashed assault on our Constitution. Published May 21, 2013
By Will Coggin
There's a new dish that's been crafted in several Hill offices: the Congressional Omelet. It's a fairly simple recipe — scramble a bunch of eggs and mix them with a hefty helping of bureaucratic molasses. Published May 20, 2013
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