By Rand Paul
When I filibustered over domestic drone use, critics said that I was being ridiculous. They said that no American had been killed by a drone on American soil and that no one was likely to be anytime soon. President Obama responded that he hadn’t killed anyone yet and didn’t intend to — but he might. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
In then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a moral reformer. Mr. Obama promised to transcend the old politics and bring a new era of hope-and-change transparency to Washington. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
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If you’re a president under fire, it’s convenient to fire someone who’s about to leave anyway. The president on Wednesday threw acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller under the hot dog wagon, or whatever convenient cliche was waiting at the curb. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
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President Obama borrows a lot of his ideas from his friends in Europe. The continent’s Big Government welfare state is an inspiration for someone who thinks the cure for too much spending is more spending. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
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New Hampshire residents take the “Live Free or Die” slogan on their license plates seriously. Municipal governments use every shady trick to squeeze revenue from the citizenry, but Hampshiremen are fighting back. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Ken Allard
With White House scandals dominating each news cycle, President Obama’s newly minted media critics may prefer to ignore their own culpability in creating this unfolding debacle. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By S. Rob Sobhani
As Washington surveys the landscape of the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, it becomes clear that the ensuing chaos resembles something closer to a long, harsh winter than a hopeful beginning. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
Barack Obama’s second term may be remembered more for his scandals than for anything else he’s done thus far in his troubled presidency. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
Not since the days of the Nixon administration has this country seen such government malfeasance as under President Obama. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Anne Hendershott
Now that the verdict is in on Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist convicted of delivering and killing babies - most of them black - perhaps President Obama might finally be willing to respond to the horrific crime. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrew P. Napolitano
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
When Virginia Republicans convene in Richmond on Friday to anoint their candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, there will be one conspicuous absence. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
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The Justice Department put its contempt for the First Amendment on full display with its snooping on journalists at The Associated Press. It’s a display of contempt for freedom of the press equaled only by the administration’s disdain for freedom of speech, another of the essential First Amendment protections. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
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Every parent with a college-age child worries about the spiraling cost of education. The price of a diploma can reach $150,000, even at a state school. A little cost-cutting is in order, and there’s no better place to start than at the president’s office. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
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One-time journalist and presidential press secretary Jay Carney is channelling his inner Sgt. Schultz, a favorite of "Hogan's Heroes." He "knows nothing, absolutely nothing" about the Department of Justice snooping on the communication habits of 20 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. Published May 15, 2013
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Over $2 trillion will be poured into Obamacare over the next decade but even that won't be enough, so the government is going to private health care companies and even lobbyists with a begging bowl. Published May 15, 2013
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The seedy practices of abortionists came sharply into focus Monday when a Philadelphia jury convicted Kermit Gosnell on three counts of first-degree murder. It's a significant setback for the Democrats, who have made terminating the lives of the unborn their defining issue. Published May 15, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Just one year after the District of Columbia passed a law making it slightly less expensive to register a handgun, the liberal city council is trying again to discourage gun ownership by making it prohibitively expensive. Published May 15, 2013
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It's time to set things straight on gun control laws, states' rights and the Constitution. It is my opinion that this debate is going nowhere because some key facts have been overlooked ("Another attempt at nullification," Commentary, May 14). Published May 15, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Officials in Washington, D.C. are using dirty tactics to hide the investigation and decision not to prosecute David Gregory of NBC News for illegally possessing a “high-capacity” magazine in the District of Columbia. Published May 15, 2013
By Scott G. Erickson
When President Obama abandoned the Bush administration's negotiated missile and radar deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic, he doubled down on what has become known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach - a series of missile defense deployment strategies staggered over the next decade throughout the European continent designed to adapt to the changing threats facing the American homeland, our allies and interests abroad. Published May 15, 2013
By Jonah Goldberg
President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus." Published May 15, 2013
By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times
A more appropriate title for this book might be "Empire Happens." No British king or minister made a conscious decision to create the greatest empire in history. The imperium was created as a patchwork over the centuries beginning with the subjugation of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Published May 15, 2013
By Thomas V. DiBacco
This month is the 100-year anniversary of the 17th Amendment that provided for the direct election of U. S. senators, superseding provisions of the Constitution mandating election by state legislatures. Published May 15, 2013
When President Obama hands the keys to the Oval Office to his successor in 2017, he'll leave behind more than $9.3 trillion in red ink. With difficulty, red ink can be washed out. A legacy of scandal is permanent. Published May 14, 2013
By Paul A. Gosar
By what measure does our foreign aid policy make common sense? Published May 14, 2013
By Ilan Berman
Ever since last month's bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation has abounded as to what led the perpetrators - suspected to be ethnic Chechens 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar - to carry out the most significant act of terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Published May 14, 2013
By J.T. Young
America's abnormally extended period of high unemployment threatens to generate ever-widening circles of pain throughout the U.S. economy. Published May 14, 2013
By Richard Rahn - The Washington Times
How many new immigrants should the United States allow each year? How many guest workers? These are not easy questions, which is why there is as much fierce debate within the two parties as between them. Published May 14, 2013
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
Suddenly, it seems we have broken through the most effective executive branch cover-up and complicit media blackout in memory. Published May 14, 2013
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In 2003, American soldiers stepped into a bunker in Iraq that was filled with drums, each of which was labeled with a chemical warning in Arabic, along with the international chemical-warning symbol. In May 2004, American soldiers in Iraq, as publicly reported by multiple news agencies, including NBC, were attacked using an improvised explosive device that contained the nerve agent sarin. Artillery shells containing a mustard agent were also found in Iraq in 2004. These are easily discoverable facts, not fantasy. Published May 14, 2013
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Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes, because you might get it. Until recently, gun-fearing Senate Democrats were positively giddy about getting access to the deep pockets of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund. Published May 14, 2013
By Rob Maness
As a former military commander both at home and deployed in war, I understand firsthand the important role free exercise of religion has in the lives of so many of our service members. For multitudes of our nation's defenders, the practice of religious faith is foundational to life itself. Published May 14, 2013
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If you are educated enough to read and smart enough to know that two plus two equals four, you know that the Obama administration was less than forthright about the events in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. Published May 14, 2013
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