By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The political travails of the Affordable Care Act - aka Obamacare - continue, as witnessed by the furor surrounding Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ attempts to solicit funds to pay for its implementation. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews
Ever since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have implied that he had the makings of a dictator. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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The Vietnam War and the “war on poverty” are probably the best-remembered elements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy, but that’s only part of it. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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The deficit is shrinking, but it’s too soon to celebrate a return to sanity. America is still sinking more into debt by the minute and is still on a path to ruin. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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Socialism has finally hit the fan in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, though he checked out just in time to miss it. He left millions of Venezuelans struggling to clean up the mess. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Tom Harris and Tim Ball
Ideological environmentalism has killed many of our most important natural-resources companies. Millions of jobs and billions of dollars have been lost. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By James A. Lyons
President Obama’s policy of “change” for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Will Coggin
There’s a new dish that’s been crafted in several Hill offices: the Congressional Omelet. It’s a fairly simple recipe — scramble a bunch of eggs and mix them with a hefty helping of bureaucratic molasses. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Dan Stein
The Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, S. 744, now wending its way through the Judiciary Committee, has been sold as a “pathway to citizenship” for the estimated 11 million illegal aliens. It does a lot more damage than that, and the public needs to understand what’s in it. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
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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The White House surely rues the day that someone came up with the bright idea of blaming an obscure YouTube video for the "demonstrations" that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Published May 10, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
When President Obama tries to make the case that his policies have improved life in America, he isn't talking about his hometown of Chicago. Published May 10, 2013
By Ramona H. Edelin
This week is National Charter Schools Week, an event promoted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools to celebrate the great work accomplished by charter schools across the country. Published May 10, 2013
By J. Keith Ausbrook
When the U.S. government fails to protect its citizens, we must determine why. Such failures can erode public faith in the government's abilities and diminish public trust in its leaders. Published May 10, 2013
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As I read through Wayne Winegarden's "Treating Alzheimer's with regulations" (Commentary, May 7), I was overcome by many of the statistics surrounding the neurodegenerative disorder. It is clear that Alzheimer's disease is becoming as expansive as it is expensive, but I found myself asking if Medicare is neglectful of rising costs associated with the disease, or if it is wary of the nascent applications of nuclear medicine. Published May 10, 2013
By Sam Graves
The health care law has the look of a plan that isn't coming together, and the administration appears unable to foresee the outcome and stay a step ahead of the potential mess. Published May 10, 2013
By Philip Kopper - Special to The Washington Times
It is a brave novelist who opens a book with his heroically obese wine snob, "a vast floodplain of undulating flesh," flopping in marital bliss, with his wife "making that melodious sound that reminded him of mermaids singing in an unintelligible language of a place he had never seen." Published May 10, 2013
By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times
Seventeen years after his death, former Director of Central Intelligence William E. Colby remains a controversial figure among many persons in and around the intelligence community. Did he betray generations of fellow officers by going public with a so-called "family jewels" list of CIA misdeeds over the years? Or did the disclosure save the agency from dissolution by an angry Congress? Published May 10, 2013
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The United States and much of the rest of the world depend on oil from the Persian Gulf. If the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz were obstructed or closed, the economies of many countries, including the United States, would be adversely affected. It could be catastrophic. Published May 10, 2013
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Remember when President Obama used to warn Syria's Bashar Assad to stop his mass killing and step down? Published May 10, 2013
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Armstrong Williams mocks the religious beliefs of probably three-quarters of the readers of The Washington Times when he writes he does "not care who Jason Collins has sex with, and neither should you" ("We shouldn't care who Jason Collins has sex with," Web, May 5). Published May 10, 2013
By Nita Ghei
The battle to regulate upstart food-truck entrepreneurs in Washington might be coming to a head. The D.C. Council's Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs is scheduled to hold a public round table to finalize the regulations under which food trucks can operate in the District. 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
By Randolph J. May
Tom Wheeler, President Obama's nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has lots of experience in the communications policy arena. Published May 9, 2013
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
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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On Sept. 10, 2001, I was on the Mexico-United States border at Naco Station near Tucson, Ariz. I saw miles and miles of unprotected border with the occasional lone agent driving by. What little fencing there was had major holes cut open, allowing illegal immigrants easy access. Published May 9, 2013
By Duncan D. Hunter
The old saying "he who rules the seas rules the world" is still relevant today. National and global interests - for America, in particular - are inextricably linked to the seas. 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
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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
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