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 Ted Nugent - The Washington Times
I raced off stage in Tampa after throttling my 6511th high energy rockout, mopped up as much dripping sweat as I could, changed into dry clothes, grabbed a Gatorade and a sack of food, hung onto my gorgeous wife Shemane and headed to the airport lickity split. Published May 6, 2013
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After reading "Don Cherry's views are as outdated as, well, Don Cherry" (Sports, April 30), I am of the opinion that Mr. Cherry is a well-grounded male living the truth with respect to the God-given dignity of the human body. Writer Nathan Fenno, on the other hand, has apparently been suckered into one of the greatest deceptions of this recent century: that there are no differences between men and women that are worth acknowledging. He seems to be another confused individual with a broken moral compass who unfortunately has been given a public forum to demonstrate his lack of wisdom. Published May 6, 2013
By Dalibor Rohac and Marian L. Tupy
The economic crisis that began in 2008 eroded public confidence in free markets - unjustifiably, in the minds of many - and set U.S. policy squarely on a path of increased financial regulation and governmental tinkering in the economy. Published May 6, 2013
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I applaud the Rev. Frank Pavone's work ("The merciless mind of the abortionist," Commentary, May 2). His exploration of the mind of the abortionist rings true — especially with regard to the abortionist's stifling of conscience. Published May 6, 2013
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A fundamental problem with Russ Gerber's "Is drug addiction a disease?" (Web, April 29) is the title of the piece. The question is not whether addiction is a disease or a choice, but rather why we are still asking this question. Published May 6, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Piers Morgan is leading the liberal media and Hollywood in another ignorant attack of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Published May 6, 2013
By Wayne Winegarden
The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care system's problems are caused by too little patient control, not too little government intervention. Published May 6, 2013
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Senior Editor of Opinion Emily Miller was on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the Fox Business Network from the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Houston to discuss the politics of gun control. Published May 5, 2013
By Mary Beth Baker - Special to The Washington Times
Friedrich Nietzsche famously announced the death of God more than a century ago. Scholars and sociologists alike have been trying to prove him right — or wrong — ever since. Regardless of religious affiliation, just about everyone agrees that God has been on the wane in the West for quite some time. Published May 5, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
As firearms manufacturers are run out of states where gun-grabbing governors are pushing through radical new laws, Gov. Rick Perry is all too happy to welcome them to the great state of Texas. The boom in new jobs and economic impact of a thriving industry in the Lone Star State shows how gun-control laws don’t make anyone safer yet hurt states’ economies. Published May 4, 2013
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Washington, D.C., is a coin-operated world where lobbyists insert their nickels and politicians sing their song. Nobody is more in tune with the game than the music industry. Published May 3, 2013
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The Justice Department decided Wednesday to appeal a federal judge's order authorizing over-the-counter sales of the Plan B morning-after abortion pill without any age restrictions. It's a right decision, if for the wrong reason. Published May 3, 2013
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In the bad old days when Germany was riven in two parts, Germans in the East lived in terror of the state security ministry known as the Stasi, which enlisted neighbors and colleagues as secret informants. Stasi created a spirit of distrust to be exploited by the party. Published May 3, 2013
By Thomas V. DiBacco
If President Obama has been slow to respond to reports that chemical weapons have been employed in Syria, thereby crossing his "red line" and creating a "game-changer" for U.S. policy, he's not the first chief executive to procrastinate on the issue. Published May 3, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
The 2014 election battle for control of the Senate will affect just about everything the upper chamber does this year and next, because it could take just a handful of upsets to put the Republicans back in charge. Published May 3, 2013
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Illinois state Sen. Donne Trotter, a Democrat, was accused of trying to board a plane headed to Washington with a gun. He pleaded guilty to reckless conduct and avoided felony charges — good for him because a felony conviction could have lost Mr. Trotter his job and pension. Published May 3, 2013
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Since antiquity, the Middle East has been the trading nexus of three continents — Asia, Europe and Africa — and the vibrant birthplace to three of the world's great religions. Published May 3, 2013
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
Benghazi may turn out to be President Obama's Watergate. The scandal is a growing cancer on the administration, threatening its very existence. The more information comes out, the more damning it is. Published May 3, 2013
By Peter Parisi - The Washington Times
In what may qualify as the overstatement of the year, NBA journeyman center Jason Collins has been dubbed "our generation's version of Jackie Robinson," merely for outing himself Monday as the first openly homosexual player in any of the four leading major league team sports. Published May 3, 2013
By Michael P. Tremoglie
"It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups." Published May 3, 2013
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