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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Squishy Republicans are the first to insist the party must move leftward any time an election doesn’t go their way. Squish is a hard sell in other places, too, as British Prime Minister David Cameron is learning. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
A wit once observed a persistent truth: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That has been especially the case with respect to “space weather” - a phenomenon associated with intense solar activity, known by scientists as coronal mass ejections and popularly as solar flares. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By J.T. Young
Americans are hard to lead politically, but they will follow reason. That is a lesson the country has repeatedly taught those aspiring to lead it. It is now one that Republicans should take to heart as they address the Obama administration’s sudden onslaught of scandals. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Richard Rahn - The Washington Times
There is an all-too-common tendency for humans (particularly members of the political class) to blame or scapegoat others when they bungle their jobs. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
President Obama’s signature health law is called the Affordable Care Act. In an ironic twist, though, it may prove prohibitively expensive for many low-income Americans. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Mark Mix
Last month, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that designates home-based child care and personal care providers, many of whom are self-employed business owners, as state workers solely for the purpose of forcing them into union ranks. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
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 Comments
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
It doesn’t matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation. Published June 17, 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 Comments
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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 Comments
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The meter has run out for the insiders and their taxi monopoly in Milwaukee. A county judge has ordered city officials to issue permits for any qualified cab drivers who want to start a new business. The ruling is a small one, but it's a significant blow against the crony capitalism that threatens the economic freedom of the rest of us. Published June 5, 2013
By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times
As John Pafford, friend and biographer of Russell Kirk, suggests in his title, with the exception of certain libertarian historians at academic centers such as Lew Rockwell's highly respected Ludwig von Mises Institute, Grover Cleveland is largely forgotten — and if not forgotten, then remembered primarily for a series of unusual firsts and seconds. Published June 5, 2013
By Penny Young Nance
While media outlets and liberal pundits are rejoicing after Rep. Michele Bachmann announced she would not seek a fifth term for office in 2014, women are stopping to say, "Thank you for paving the way for political greatness." Published June 5, 2013
By Duncan D. Hunter
Since the birth of the nation, military veterans have made innumerable contributions to the development and operation of the U.S. government. For Congress, which is accustomed to veterans, the knowledge and expertise garnered through military service remains an influential force. Published June 5, 2013
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It has often been said that morality and politics don't mix. One of the meaningless achievements of President Obama is the "Atrocities Prevention Board." President Obama launched this board a year ago, claiming it would be a serious innovation in the fight to stop genocide and crimes against humanity. Published June 4, 2013
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By Christopher M. Lehman
The United States is at a crossroads, and the American people must consider carefully an issue that has been creeping up on us for two decades. Published June 4, 2013
By Daniel R. Kempton
In an effort that was once ideological and has now deteriorated into semantics, President Obama refuses to use the phrase "global war on terrorism." Published June 4, 2013
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They're almost here. With reports of sightings in Northern Virginia, the nation's capital is bracing for the inevitable return of the moulting, mating, singing cicadas. Published June 4, 2013
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The Calvert County, Md., kindergartner who was suspended last week for brandishing an unloaded cap gun on a school bus returned to class Monday. The crime wave in Calvert County is over. Published June 4, 2013
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There is simply no truth to Tony Sayegh's analysis of debit-card swipe-fee reform ("Three years of Dodd-Frank's broken promises," Commentary, May 31). Published June 4, 2013
By David Bittle
Not long ago while walking through the airport, the following announcement caught my attention: "Will the person who forgot their hearing aids please return to the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint to reclaim them." Published June 4, 2013
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York confidently predicts that at least 70 members of the U.S. Senate are going to vote for the so-called comprehensive immigration-reform bill proposed by his "Gang of Eight." Published June 4, 2013
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The trifecta of scandals bedeviling the Obama White House shares a common theme: high-level government officials put their signatures on a document and later disavow accountability for its contents. Call it government by rubber stamp. Published June 4, 2013
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
When you hear that Congress has taken up the "farm bill," what images come to mind? Farmers in overalls, driving beat-up tractors, trying to scratch out a living from the soil? A lot of politicians are counting on that. Published June 4, 2013
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With Memorial Day just passed and the Fourth of July approaching, it's a good time for Americans to review the meaning of their citizenship. The Founding Fathers disdained a monarchy and created a republic with three branches of government to ensure that none of the branches could run roughshod over the rights of the American people. Published June 4, 2013
By Mark Merritt
Over the next decade, Medicaid expansion under Obamacare will add millions more people to the program, doubling its current cost and bringing the number of enrollees to 84 million by 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Published June 4, 2013
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Michaela Dodge's "The do's and don'ts of defense spending" (Commentary, May 30) urges Congress to shower more money on missile defense in the National Defense Authorization Act, particularly by building an East Coast site. This would be a spectacular waste of taxpayer dollars. Published June 3, 2013
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When most of us prepare to go on vacation, we focus on tidying up and leaving nothing important behind or undone. Not our national leaders. Published June 3, 2013
By John Taylor and John M. Taylor - Special to The Washington Times
Nearly seven decades have passed since the close of World War II, yet appreciation of its horrors seems to increase as time passes. More than 50 million people are estimated to have died from 1939 through 1945, 20 million of them in Russia. The extent of destruction and sacrifice that the war engendered remains difficult to comprehend. Published June 3, 2013
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