By Jay Sekulow
It’s amazing that there are those - including The New York Times - that continue to prop up the flawed finger-pointing of the Internal Revenue Service, blaming a couple of rogue agents out of its Cincinnati office for the unlawful targeting of conservative groups. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Reza Kahlili
As soon as the results of the Iranian elections were announced, the world’s media proclaimed that a “moderate and reformist” cleric, Hasan Rowhani, would become the new president of Iran. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Rep. Bob Goodlatte
The House is expected to consider this week the reauthorization of the farm bill, a multiyear plan for the future of American farming. While much of the media coverage of the debate in the Senate centered on nutrition programs, an important battle is brewing in the House regarding dairy policy. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
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The Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law Monday that required proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote while signing up for a driver’s license. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
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The key to success in business is making products that beat the competition. Government just makes rules, and drives up costs for competitors. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
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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 Comments
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
A wit once observed a persistent truth: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That has been especially the case with respect to “space weather” - a phenomenon associated with intense solar activity, known by scientists as coronal mass ejections and popularly as solar flares. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By J.T. Young
Americans are hard to lead politically, but they will follow reason. That is a lesson the country has repeatedly taught those aspiring to lead it. It is now one that Republicans should take to heart as they address the Obama administration’s sudden onslaught of scandals. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Richard Rahn - The Washington Times
There is an all-too-common tendency for humans (particularly members of the political class) to blame or scapegoat others when they bungle their jobs. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
President Obama’s signature health law is called the Affordable Care Act. In an ironic twist, though, it may prove prohibitively expensive for many low-income Americans. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Mark Mix
Last month, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that designates home-based child care and personal care providers, many of whom are self-employed business owners, as state workers solely for the purpose of forcing them into union ranks. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Gary Bauer
The decline of fatherhood is one of the most devastating social trends of the past 50 years, but not all dads are deadbeats or absentees. If only our culture celebrated the everyday dedication and sacrifice of the millions of American fathers who lovingly fulfill their vocation. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
It doesn’t matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
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The “hope and change” of the 2008 presidential campaign is living on borrowed time. President Obama’s greatest legislative accomplishment, Obamacare, is about to become the nation’s nightmare, and for none more so than his most faithful backers. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
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Backers of the immigration bill under consideration in the Senate say the legislation encourages illegal aliens to learn English, but that’s apparently not so. They’ve been running ads on conservative talk radio programs insisting that the illegals “must learn English” as a condition of legalization. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
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For the five-year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling on District of Columbia v. Heller, the Cato Institute brought together the original legal team to reflect on the impact. Emily Miller, The Washington Times' senior editor for opinion, spoke about how D.C. technically complied with the High Court's decision but put in place onerous registration laws to discourage gun ownership. Published June 18, 2013
By William Murchison - Special to The Washington Times
Robert Peter George has to be one of the most civilized people laboring around these parts to make sense of the muddle we call modern life. The word "civilized" I use in its, shall we say, civilized sense — as marking ownership of, or attachment to, qualities formerly associated with the good life: judgment, propriety, dignity, reasonableness, not to mention old-fashioned common sense. Published June 18, 2013
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on "Fox News Sunday" on June 16, and one of the topics was the National Security Agency surveillance program. Mr. Cheney related how and why the program was originally implemented after Sept. 11, 2001, and I have no problem that. The problem I have with Mr. Cheney and others cheerleading the current NSA surveillance program is that they do not have current information to back up their claims. As for Mr. Cheney, he has been out of office for more than four years and admitted he has no current knowledge about the program. Published June 18, 2013
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Thank God we have people like Sen. Rand Paul (Commentary, "Liberty versus power," June 14) and many organizations that fight for our precious freedoms. Published June 18, 2013
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Why hasn't Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical Islamic terrorist, been tried for his crimes? In the wake of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack by radical Islamists again here in the United States, it is important that the case returns to the surface. Published June 18, 2013
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Does Robert Knight's article (Commentary, "The GOP temptation to try to fix the unfixable," Monday) make sense? He acknowledges that the Republican Party has a major Hispanic problem, but as a solution he counsels the party to "do nothing" on immigration reform. Any legislation passed during the next 18 months would, he claims, would allow "mass amnesty for an estimated 11 million illegal aliens, also known as 'unregistered Democrats.'" Published June 18, 2013
By Warren L. Dean Jr.
Montgomery County, Md., is home to some of the most accomplished professionals in the nation: lawyers, accountants, academics and authors. That is why the reaction of its congressman to the Internal Revenue Service scandal is so important. Published June 17, 2013
By Kyle Peterson - Special to The Washington Times
On one point, Kevin Williamson is almost certainly right: We are headed over the cliff. But halfway through the National Review correspondent's new book, "The End Is Near and It's Going to be Awesome," I began to wonder what the final word of his title is supposed to mean. Published June 17, 2013
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