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
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What voice is louder on public policy than that emanating from the bully pulpit of the president? Yet how is our current president the moral superior of the infamous Kermit Gosnell? As a senator, Mr. Obama voted in favor of the destruction of newborn survivors of abortion. The execution of that very act Mr. Obama sanctioned was Gosnell's crime — but only one of them is going to prison ("Murder: Gosnell guilty verdict hailed on both sides of abortion debate," Web, May 13). Published May 22, 2013
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S. Rob Sobhani's piece on Bahrain ("Standing steadfast with Bahrain," Commentary, May 20) once again draws attention to a vitally important political conflict in a nation that has been a close U.S. ally for the past six decades. Mr. Sobhani's call for renewed U.S. commitment to the kingdom deserves applause, as does his warning about an Iran-inspired campaign to provoke further unrest on the island. Published May 22, 2013
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Even after taking new hits to its stock price, Apple Inc., remains the most valuable corporation in the world. That makes some senators green with envy. They assume such success could only have come at a cost to the government. Published May 22, 2013
By Andrew Marcus
As the director of "Hating Breitbart," which was released digitally and in theaters last week across the United States, I had the distinct and unique privilege of following Andrew Breitbart during the closing years of his public life, documenting his speeches, conversations, ruminations and mischief - we even shot one of his haircuts. Published May 22, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Published May 22, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Anthony Weiner thinks his brief absence from elected office means the public will forget his disrespect and disdain for women. He's wrong. He didn't just treat strange women like sex objects, he sexually harassed female journalists who work on Capitol Hill. Two of us work at The Washington Times. Published May 22, 2013
By Peter Parisi - The Washington Times
"Keep sex and politics out of Scouting." Published May 21, 2013
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Some historians whisper that we are more divided now than we were on the eve of the Civil War, while certain high officers in the executive branch of the federal government are engaged in unabashed assault on our Constitution. Published May 21, 2013
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
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Thank you for running "Countdown: The Benghazi scandal" by Rowan Scarborough (page A1, May 17) and giving it proper coverage on the front page. We subscribe to both the Washington Post and The Washington Times, and as usual the Post downplayed the Benghazi scandal; there was no mention of it on the front page. Published May 21, 2013
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
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
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On Memorial Day, we all have a chance to remember the real peace marchers of the world. Published May 21, 2013
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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
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
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
With each developing scandal, the picture of an arrogant administration abusing its power grows clearer. Published May 21, 2013
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Some in the press dismiss the Benghazi congressional investigation as mere partisan politics. Their audience needs to know what this is really about. Published May 21, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
As Kermit Gosnell starts his life sentence for murdering babies, Congress is moving to create a federal law against aborting babies in the last months of pregnancy. Published May 21, 2013
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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
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