The immigration-reform bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee this week is expected to be considered by the Senate in June. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
Americans are beginning to recognize the disturbing similarities between President Obama and the fallen Richard Nixon, but the comparison that may matter more is between Mr. Obama and King George III. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Government is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t like the direction the federal judiciary is heading, so he has come up with a variant of court-packing to achieve his results. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is still smarting from the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of “supersized” sodas. He blew his top last week at a second judicial slight. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
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There’s a killer on the loose. Known for murdering in cold blood with a sharp blade, the government has nevertheless turned a blind eye to the killer’s trail of death and destruction. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
Did President Obama know about his administration’s enemies list? If he did - and it looks like he may have - then his presidency is in deep trouble. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By James Sherk
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Nita Ghei
In the latest act of the unfolding Internal Revenue Service scandal, Lois Lerner, the head of the agency’s tax-exempt organizations office, faced with allegations of improper targeting of conservative groups, invoked the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
Five months into his improvisational second term, a sluggish economy and severe jobless rate seem to have vanished from President Obama’s agenda. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
The tornado in Oklahoma provides a classic example of how national television network news operates, depending on local reporters and camera operators until the big guns arrive to take over. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Andrew P. Napolitano
A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By John Barrasso
Anger at the Internal Revenue Service’s abuse of power is reaching an all-time high across the country. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
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George W. Bush employed an anti-terrorism strategy of taking the fight to the enemy abroad “so we do not have to face them here at home.” Barack Obama has replaced that with welcoming the enemy to our shores and bestowing on him American citizenship. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
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Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we’ve gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Andrew P. Napolitano
It should come as no surprise that President Obama told Ohio State University students at a graduation ceremony last week that they should not question authority and they should reject the calls of those who do. Published May 9, 2013
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Your May 2 editorial arguing against Food and Drug Administration regulation of cigars ignores or glosses over a number of important facts about cigar use in the United States ("Snuff out that cigar"). Published May 9, 2013
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A few friends of extraterrestrials got together the other day at the National Press Club, where there's usually a couple of guys at the bar eager for a good story, to hold a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, a "mock congressional hearing" on human encounters with extraterrestrials. Published May 9, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
President Obama will travel to Austin Thursday to promote job creation, while profitable corporations are moving to Texas to escape his bad economic policies. Huge companies in the booming firearms industry are considering moving to the Lone Star State, where Gov. Rick Perry promises a welcoming business environment. Published May 9, 2013
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The immigration "reform" cooked up by the Gang of Eight is finally on the front burner in Congress. The Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up the comprehensive package Thursday, and already it appears the process is doomed to failure, and by design. Published May 9, 2013
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times
Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly limited range of perception. Published May 9, 2013
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I have zero tolerance for the zero-tolerance policy that continues to suspend 6- and 7-year-old boys from school for using fingers, Pop-Tarts and pencils as "guns." Shame on those persons who are the source of this nonsense. One can only hope that sanity will quickly be restored and that grown-ups will again behave as adults, setting the proper examples of behavior for our young to learn from and aspire to. Published May 9, 2013
By Michael V. Hayden and Robin Simcox
Details continue to emerge in the investigation of the deadly Boston Marathon blasts, which left three dead and more than 260 wounded. What is immediately clear is the need for security officials to undertake a careful review of the terrorist threat that exists on U.S. soil. Published May 9, 2013
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Tom Howell Jr.'s article, "Israeli airstrikes on Syria put Obama at the crossroads" (Web, May 5), quotes an Obama official as saying: "If he [Assad] drops sarin on his own people, what's that got to do with us?" I was shocked by this remark. Published May 9, 2013
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What could be wrong with universal background checks for firearms ownership if creating a firearms registry from the data is punishable by prison time and fines? The answer is twofold. Published May 8, 2013
Two of my former students recently found themselves caught in a drive-by shooting in Kensington, a neighborhood in North Philadelphia. Published May 8, 2013
By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times
It reads more like "The Heart of Darkness," this searing account of life at the top of the television jungle. Published May 8, 2013
By Matthew R.J. Brodsky
The international media have focused on the recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria and what it means to the region. What and whom did Israel target? Was there an imminent threat to Israel? Does the strike portend a widening conflict? There are several reasons for Israel's timing. Published May 8, 2013
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Waking up to the morning newspaper and a cup of hot coffee is one of life's great pleasures, but it may soon be only a fondly remembered blast from the past. The newspaper is not going anywhere, but the nannies and the nancy men of the federal government want to take away our caffeine. Published May 8, 2013
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Alex and Anna Nikolayev of Sacramento, Calif., want only the best for their five-month-old son, Sammy. They're particularly sensitive to the infant's health because he has a heart murmur and will likely need surgery. Published May 8, 2013
By Marlin Stutzman
On a cold December night in 1975, a 17-year-old girl sobbed on the bedroom floor of a neighbor's house. Her own home had just burned to the ground, destroying everything she had. But that wasn't the only weight she carried that night. Published May 8, 2013
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When our high school freshman recently began tackling Homer's "The Odyssey," something struck me about the Senate's "Gang of Eight" amnesty legislation. Published May 8, 2013
By Jeff Birnbaum - The Washington Times
The deficit is falling, the deficit is falling! Chicken Little isn't the one saying so. The claim is actually true. Published May 8, 2013
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Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat, has been a do-nothing senator while carrying water for President Obama's disastrous policies. He claims to be a great businessman, but what successful business person now in position of power as a United States senator stands by and does nothing while the president enacts policies that have wreaked havoc on our economy? Published May 8, 2013
By Reza Kahlili
Iran is teetering on the brink of political chaos in the wake of last week's news that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested, questioned and warned to shut up by the heads of the Islamic regime's security forces before being released seven hours later. Published May 8, 2013
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