By James A. Lyons
Underlying the chaotic situation throughout the Middle East is the Obama administration’s dysfunctional political strategy of switching sides in the Arab Spring revolutionary wars. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By William C. Triplett II
The rumors had been circulating in Washington for weeks, but Bloomberg brought it above the waterline on Thursday: “At closed-door fundraisers held over the past few weeks, the president has been telling Democratic Party donors that he will unveil new climate proposals in July.” Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Chuck Donovan
Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the abortion debate once and for all, anxious activists on both sides of the homosexual-marriage debate are waiting with bated breath for high court rulings some hope will settle the future of marriage. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
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The Energy Department is once more deciding what kind of appliances are good for you. Like the “standards” the federal government imposed on light bulbs, toilets, washing machines and other essentials, the rules are all about taking choices from consumers and requiring them to buy machines that don’t work or don’t work as well as they once did. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
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Anew law in Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
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Forget tolerance. What many on the left are after is imposing their views on just about everything on just about everyone, with judges serving as willing accomplices. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Daniel Pipes
Rebellion has shaken Turkey since May 31. Is it comparable to the Arab upheavals that overthrew four rulers since 2011, to Iran’s Green Movement of 2009 that led to an apparent reformer being elected president last week, or perhaps to Occupy Wall Street, which had negligible consequences? Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
It is a well-known axiom of presidential politics that when things aren’t going well at home, chief executives go abroad. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Wayne Allard
Thanks to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there’s a new threat facing motorcyclists nationwide, and possibly all Americans. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Michael Taube
Last year, President Obama was eagerly moving forward with his personal war against guns. He was ready to ignore the Second Amendment and hoped to change the way Americans viewed gun ownership as a fundamental right. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
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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It has often been said that morality and politics don't mix. One of the meaningless achievements of President Obama is the "Atrocities Prevention Board." President Obama launched this board a year ago, claiming it would be a serious innovation in the fight to stop genocide and crimes against humanity. Published June 4, 2013
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There is simply no truth to Tony Sayegh's analysis of debit-card swipe-fee reform ("Three years of Dodd-Frank's broken promises," Commentary, May 31). Published June 4, 2013
By David Bittle
Not long ago while walking through the airport, the following announcement caught my attention: "Will the person who forgot their hearing aids please return to the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint to reclaim them." Published June 4, 2013
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They're almost here. With reports of sightings in Northern Virginia, the nation's capital is bracing for the inevitable return of the moulting, mating, singing cicadas. Published June 4, 2013
By Christopher M. Lehman
The United States is at a crossroads, and the American people must consider carefully an issue that has been creeping up on us for two decades. Published June 4, 2013
By Mark Merritt
Over the next decade, Medicaid expansion under Obamacare will add millions more people to the program, doubling its current cost and bringing the number of enrollees to 84 million by 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Published June 4, 2013
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With Memorial Day just passed and the Fourth of July approaching, it's a good time for Americans to review the meaning of their citizenship. The Founding Fathers disdained a monarchy and created a republic with three branches of government to ensure that none of the branches could run roughshod over the rights of the American people. Published June 4, 2013
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The Calvert County, Md., kindergartner who was suspended last week for brandishing an unloaded cap gun on a school bus returned to class Monday. The crime wave in Calvert County is over. Published June 4, 2013
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
When you hear that Congress has taken up the "farm bill," what images come to mind? Farmers in overalls, driving beat-up tractors, trying to scratch out a living from the soil? A lot of politicians are counting on that. Published June 4, 2013
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York confidently predicts that at least 70 members of the U.S. Senate are going to vote for the so-called comprehensive immigration-reform bill proposed by his "Gang of Eight." Published June 4, 2013
By Daniel R. Kempton
In an effort that was once ideological and has now deteriorated into semantics, President Obama refuses to use the phrase "global war on terrorism." Published June 4, 2013
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The trifecta of scandals bedeviling the Obama White House shares a common theme: high-level government officials put their signatures on a document and later disavow accountability for its contents. Call it government by rubber stamp. Published June 4, 2013
By Lila Rose
So shocking about late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell was how he killed his victims. When we learn how the abortionist slit the necks of struggling, crying infants, moments after a failed abortion, and scissored their spinal cords, we're sickened, and rightfully so. Published June 3, 2013
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The left talks a lot about diversity and academic freedom, but it's rarely practiced. With rare exceptions, the ideological spectrum of the commencement speakers sending graduates out into the real world ranges from far left to even further left. Published June 3, 2013
By Jeffrey A. Schaler and Richard E. Vatz
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, regardless of version, remains a problem masquerading as a solution for several reasons. Published June 3, 2013
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When the time comes to pay the tax man, corporate executives realize the United States is the single worst country in the civilized world to do business. That's a rather stunning development for a country that was founded on the principles of free enterprise. Published June 3, 2013
By - The Washington Times
The Obama administration now has three intensifying scandals on its hands, a hat trick of corruption composed of the Benghazi cover-up, the administration's unjustified surveillance of the Associated Press and Fox News, and of course the outrageous abuse of IRS power for partisan purposes. In fact, so many tyrannical abuses are coming to light that the big three are likely only the tip of the iceberg. Published June 3, 2013
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When most of us prepare to go on vacation, we focus on tidying up and leaving nothing important behind or undone. Not our national leaders. Published June 3, 2013
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Michaela Dodge's "The do's and don'ts of defense spending" (Commentary, May 30) urges Congress to shower more money on missile defense in the National Defense Authorization Act, particularly by building an East Coast site. This would be a spectacular waste of taxpayer dollars. Published June 3, 2013
By Ian de Silva
There is a common belief that if an immigrant becomes a U.S. citizen, then he has become an American. It is a naive belief. Published June 3, 2013
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