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
By Al Cardenas
As farm bill negotiations get underway, the rhetoric surrounding our nation's sugar policy is again approaching a decibel level that likely will be rivaled only by this summer's East Coast cicada bugfest. Published June 7, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
In the sixth month of his second term, President Obama is still putting his national security team together and trying to figure out what he wants to do during the remainder of his presidency. Published June 7, 2013
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Watch out whenever a politician says he is focused like a laser on creating jobs. Whether he's the first biracial president or a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight, he obviously means jobs for foreign workers, not Americans. Published June 7, 2013
Last week, I spent some time traveling through a state that in recent years has become too much of a foreign territory for Republicans: California. Published June 7, 2013
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
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Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, speaking on the floor of the Louisiana Senate recently, said opposition to Obamacare was "about race." This means that Americans with low concentrations of melanin pigment molecules in their skin cells think a certain way about health care. Published June 7, 2013
By Warren L. Dean Jr.
This past weekend, a popular tabloid recited the litany of administration scandals and carried the following sensational headline: "Worse than Nixon!" Tabloids are tabloids, but it raises an interesting question: How does the Internal Revenue Service scandal compare to Watergate? Published June 7, 2013
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The article "As overflows continue, D.C. plan for sewage tunnels getting messy" (Web, June 2) misrepresents the views of the Natural Resources Defense Council with regard to D.C. Water's proposal to change its commitment to reduce sewage overflows. Published June 7, 2013
By Nita Ghei
At its birth, economist soothsayers predicted a short life for the euro. For once, the economists might well be right. Published June 7, 2013
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President Obama wasn't kidding when he told the Russian president that he expected to have "more flexibility" in his second term. Published June 6, 2013
By Andrew P. Napolitano
What if government officials have written laws that apply only to us and not to them? What if we gave them the power to protect our freedoms and our safety, and they used that power to trick and trap some of us? Published June 6, 2013
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There is something that could be much more dangerous to the nation than the apparent lies the administration continues to cover up. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano claims to have known nothing about the release of hundreds of illegal aliens from the custody of her bureaucracy, while the top law-enforcement officer of the nation, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., swears he knows nothing about his own agency selling semi-automatic rifles to Mexican drug lords, tapping the phones of Associated Press journalists or the Internal Revenue Service targeting patriot groups from coast to coast. Published June 6, 2013
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Rep. John D. Dingell of Michigan becomes the longest-serving member of Congress on Friday, taking the title from the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. Published June 6, 2013
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Having "three hots and a cot," as the military calls meals and a bunk, and a warm Caribbean breeze apparently isn't enough for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Published June 6, 2013
By Suzanne Fields - The Washington Times
Between the baby boomers on one hand and Generations X, Y and Z on the other, cultural and economic changes have transformed the landscape of the culture. It's difficult to wrap a description around what sociologists call a "cohort." Published June 6, 2013
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In his classic essay "Consider the Lobster," acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace asked, "Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?" The answer should be a resounding "no" ("Inside the Beltway," May 31). Published June 6, 2013
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POSITANO, Italy Published June 6, 2013
By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times
Steve Vogel's "The Perilous Fight" is probably the best piece of military history that I have read or reviewed in the past five years. It is the story of the last six weeks of the war between Great Britain and the United States that began in 1812. Published June 6, 2013
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I take exception to White House spokesman Jay Carney's statement this week that mental illness is a component of our gun-violence problem ("Obama skirts gun issue at mental health event," Web, June 3). It's not mental illness, but untreated mental illness that is the component of gun violence. Yes, guns can kill. Severely mentally ill people should not be allowed to purchase guns or have access to them. Untreated mental illness also kills. Combine the two, and you have a tragedy waiting to happen. Published June 6, 2013
By Craig Shirley
Ronald Reagan was not one to generally bestow nicknames on staff. He had nothing against nicknames, and in fact, over the years had himself picked up "Dutch" from his father and "the Gipper" from his portrayal of the dying George Gipp in "Knute Rockne, All American." Published June 6, 2013
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