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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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
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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
By Thomas V. DiBacco
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Current Tax Payment Act, which introduced withholding of federal income taxes from employee paychecks. Arguably, it was one of the most important pieces of tax legislation in American history because it provided Washington with a steady stream of money to spend. Published June 17, 2013
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For those Americans who support the Senate immigration-reform bill from the Gang of Eight: Illegal aliens are not so-called "undocumented immigrants." Immigrants have legal residence, and illegal aliens do not have legal residence. Illegal aliens have documents — fake documents, altered official documents or stolen identity documents of American citizens. Published June 17, 2013
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
It doesn't matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation. Published June 17, 2013
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
By Tim Winter
Our media-consumption habits have been growing into an "on-demand" lifestyle for a number of years now. We demand to have access to our favorite TV shows, whenever and wherever we want. Published June 17, 2013
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When Hurricane Sandy flooded the New York City subways, I remember thinking to myself, "Gee, the city should spend a couple of million dollars upgrading the air-ventilation shafts and subway entrances to prevent this from happening again." Now, we see that the mayor proposes a nearly $20 billion program to solve this problem ("NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to spend $19.5B to fight hurricanes," Web, June 12). Mr. Bloomberg's plan includes building walls around lower Manhattan to keep out rising waters owing to global warming. But melting ice packs will only raise sea levels one inch per decade at most, so this is hardly worth building ugly walls that would destroy views from places like Battery Park. Surely, it would be better to simply protect air-ventilation shafts and subway entrances from the once-a-century Sandy-type storm. Published June 14, 2013
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Nothing is more personal than the blueprint of life itself, encoded in the DNA that comes with the gift of birth. Advances in medical technology have given scientists the power to read what's written in those genes, and there's the problem. Published June 14, 2013
By Steven Mosher - Special to The Washington Times
George Orwell once remarked that we have less sympathy for the 7 million victims of Stalin's famine in Ukraine and the Caucasus than we do for the dog that we just hit on the road. The dog is an audible yelp and visible carnage: flesh, blood, bone and fur scattered over the highway. The 7,000,000 dead Ukrainians, on the other hand, are just a number. Published June 14, 2013
On Thursday, I held a news conference announcing my intent to pursue legal action against the federal government for infringing on Americans' Fourth Amendment rights. Published June 14, 2013
By Emily Miller
Six months ago, the nation was horrified that a deranged man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 young children and six educators. Published June 14, 2013
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The Supreme Court has a new opportunity to set aside a government program that long ago passed its "sell by" date. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the court can strike a blow for good racial relations as well. Published June 14, 2013
By Jose R. Cardenas
One of the greatest ironies of the late strongman Hugo Chavez's rule was that even as he attempted to personify Venezuelan nationalism, he was quietly outsourcing more and more of the country's sovereignty to the Castro brothers in Cuba. Published June 14, 2013
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Thousands of Americans are languishing in federal prisons for lying to federal officials. Federal officials themselves often get a pass when they tell a whopper to Congress. It's a double standard that must end. Published June 14, 2013
By Emily Miller
The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution Friday that expresses the sense of Congress that active duty military living or stationed in the District of Columbia should have the right to carry a gun. The measure sponsored by Rep. Phil Gingrey, Georgia Republican, was passed by voice vote as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes the Pentagon’s budget for 2014. Published June 14, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
President Obama's job-approval ratings are declining, proving Abraham Lincoln's admonition that you can't fool all the people all the time. Published June 14, 2013
By Duncan Hunter
Persistent activity by Chinese cyberspies reveals just how vulnerable America remains to digital security breaches. In the cyberworld, the playing field has leveled, and the United States, without the fortified cyberprotections to match the threat, remains target No. 1. Published June 14, 2013
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
Our constitutional republic is under attack. It has been wounded by the rise of the national surveillance state. This is the real meaning of the explosive leaks from former intelligence employee Edward Snowden. Published June 14, 2013
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It's inspirational and refreshing to see so many fellow citizens living in Oklahoma who demonstrated the power of true freedom by picking themselves up after destructive tornadoes. I've seen in recent years too many of my fellow citizens chained mentally, emotionally or physically after various destructive events. But in Oklahoma, I witnessed fellow citizens who weren't thus chained. They looked to themselves and began cleaning up. At least in Oklahoma, there are a few Americans left who can truly celebrate July Fourth and the Declaration of Independence. Published June 14, 2013
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