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
By Pete Hegseth and Tom Cotton and Josh Mandel
Kaitlyn Samuels is not a household name. More people should be aware of her story, though, because she represents a growing number of military families that are being left in the cold by the Department of Defense and its military health insurance provider, Tricare. Published May 7, 2013
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Nobody likes paying a telephone bill, landline, cell or otherwise. The long-term contracts, early termination fees and the bewildering array of fees and limits make comparison shopping a drudge. This isn't so, however, for nearly 1 every 10 Maryland residents who get their telephone free from the Lifeline subsidy program. Published May 7, 2013
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It is unfathomable why a big influential company felt the need to issue an apology for Chris Broussard's honest and respectful response to a question that he was asked ("ESPN apologizes for Chris Broussard's conservative Christian views of homosexuality," Web, April 30). It is almost comical how fearful America has become of people who dare speak honestly and who stand up for their faith. Published May 7, 2013
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I applaud the Rev. Frank Pavone's work ("The merciless mind of the abortionist," Commentary, May 2). His exploration of the mind of the abortionist rings true — especially with regard to the abortionist's stifling of conscience. Published May 6, 2013
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A fundamental problem with Russ Gerber's "Is drug addiction a disease?" (Web, April 29) is the title of the piece. The question is not whether addiction is a disease or a choice, but rather why we are still asking this question. Published May 6, 2013
By Wayne Winegarden
The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care system's problems are caused by too little patient control, not too little government intervention. Published May 6, 2013
By Angela Logomasini
Eat fewer apples, strawberries and grapes, and more corn, onions and pineapples, and you'll protect yourself and your children from "toxic" pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Published May 6, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Piers Morgan is leading the liberal media and Hollywood in another ignorant attack of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Published May 6, 2013
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After reading "Don Cherry's views are as outdated as, well, Don Cherry" (Sports, April 30), I am of the opinion that Mr. Cherry is a well-grounded male living the truth with respect to the God-given dignity of the human body. Writer Nathan Fenno, on the other hand, has apparently been suckered into one of the greatest deceptions of this recent century: that there are no differences between men and women that are worth acknowledging. He seems to be another confused individual with a broken moral compass who unfortunately has been given a public forum to demonstrate his lack of wisdom. Published May 6, 2013
By Oliver North - The Washington Times
On April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. He and the members of both houses of Congress then assembled in the unfinished Senate chamber, where Washington took less than 20 minutes to deliver the first inaugural address. Published May 6, 2013
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Politicians often have too much time on their hands. In the state of Washington, state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, a Democrat, spent many hours poring through the law books searching for words and phrases that offend currently fashionable feminist sensibilities. Published May 6, 2013
By Jerry Boykin and Ken Allard
President Obama's supporters were outraged when the actor portraying Satan during the recent TV miniseries "The Bible" had more than a passing resemblance to Mr. Obama. Now, however, those same supporters seem determined to remove all doubt about the anti-religious bigotry underlying this administration's every official pronouncement. Published May 6, 2013
By Dalibor Rohac and Marian L. Tupy
The economic crisis that began in 2008 eroded public confidence in free markets - unjustifiably, in the minds of many - and set U.S. policy squarely on a path of increased financial regulation and governmental tinkering in the economy. Published May 6, 2013
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Friday's official jobs numbers were better than expected. The Labor Department says 165,000 private-sector positions were created in April, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.5 percent, a decline of only a tenth of a percentage point from March. Published May 6, 2013
By Brahma Chellaney
With China's "peaceful rise" giving way to a more muscular approach, Beijing has broadened its "core interests" and exhibited a growing readiness to take risks. Published May 6, 2013
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
America is awash in doublespeak. Published May 6, 2013
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It's May, and for most seniors in high school, thoughts turn to final exams, getting a date for the prom and graduation. For David Cole Withrow, an 18-year-old senior at Princeton High School in Princeton, N.C., his final days will be spent dealing with a suspension, an arrest record and a felony charge in criminal court. Published May 6, 2013
By Ted Nugent - The Washington Times
I raced off stage in Tampa after throttling my 6511th high energy rockout, mopped up as much dripping sweat as I could, changed into dry clothes, grabbed a Gatorade and a sack of food, hung onto my gorgeous wife Shemane and headed to the airport lickity split. Published May 6, 2013
By Mary Beth Baker - Special to The Washington Times
Friedrich Nietzsche famously announced the death of God more than a century ago. Scholars and sociologists alike have been trying to prove him right — or wrong — ever since. Regardless of religious affiliation, just about everyone agrees that God has been on the wane in the West for quite some time. Published May 5, 2013
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Senior Editor of Opinion Emily Miller was on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the Fox Business Network from the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Houston to discuss the politics of gun control. Published May 5, 2013
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