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 Peter Parisi - The Washington Times
In what may qualify as the overstatement of the year, NBA journeyman center Jason Collins has been dubbed "our generation's version of Jackie Robinson," merely for outing himself Monday as the first openly homosexual player in any of the four leading major league team sports. Published May 3, 2013
By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times
The 2014 election battle for control of the Senate will affect just about everything the upper chamber does this year and next, because it could take just a handful of upsets to put the Republicans back in charge. Published May 3, 2013
By Michael P. Tremoglie
"It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups." Published May 3, 2013
By Thomas V. DiBacco
If President Obama has been slow to respond to reports that chemical weapons have been employed in Syria, thereby crossing his "red line" and creating a "game-changer" for U.S. policy, he's not the first chief executive to procrastinate on the issue. Published May 3, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
Gov. Rick Perry sat back in shock when I told him President Obama declared to Mexicans that an upside of his efforts to infringe upon the Second Amendment would be to make them safer. “The idea that a United States president would go to Mexico and make that statement is incredulous,” the 2012 president candidate told me in an interview after his rousing speech at the NRA annual meeting in Houston Friday. Published May 3, 2013
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I would like to think that the gun bill didn't pass the Senate because senators represent the people ("Collateral damage of Senate gun votes: liberals emboldened, Bloomberg targets moderates," Commentary, April 24). When people are elected to Congress, their trusted obligation is to protect the rights, freedoms and liberty not only of the 300-million-plus current U.S. citizens, but also of the millions not yet born. It's an awesome responsibility. Published May 3, 2013
By Claire Hopley - Special to The Washington Times
How do writers and other artists create their work? Our library of mental images includes visions of poets communing with nature, novelists burning the midnight oil whilst scribbling away in cold and lonely attics, composers tinkling phrases on the piano then dashing the notes down as their minds race with inspiration. Published May 3, 2013
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The Justice Department decided Wednesday to appeal a federal judge's order authorizing over-the-counter sales of the Plan B morning-after abortion pill without any age restrictions. It's a right decision, if for the wrong reason. Published May 3, 2013
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Washington, D.C., is a coin-operated world where lobbyists insert their nickels and politicians sing their song. Nobody is more in tune with the game than the music industry. Published May 3, 2013
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Illinois state Sen. Donne Trotter, a Democrat, was accused of trying to board a plane headed to Washington with a gun. He pleaded guilty to reckless conduct and avoided felony charges — good for him because a felony conviction could have lost Mr. Trotter his job and pension. Published May 3, 2013
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
Benghazi may turn out to be President Obama's Watergate. The scandal is a growing cancer on the administration, threatening its very existence. The more information comes out, the more damning it is. Published May 3, 2013
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In the bad old days when Germany was riven in two parts, Germans in the East lived in terror of the state security ministry known as the Stasi, which enlisted neighbors and colleagues as secret informants. Stasi created a spirit of distrust to be exploited by the party. Published May 3, 2013
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It will be a sad day for this state if we Virginians decide to put a carpetbagging, crony capitalist in the governor's mansion come November ("Cuccinelli camp says McAuliffe's job-creation record is 'biggest joke' for April Fools' Day," Web, April 1). Published May 3, 2013
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Since antiquity, the Middle East has been the trading nexus of three continents — Asia, Europe and Africa — and the vibrant birthplace to three of the world's great religions. Published May 3, 2013
There are many examples of waste, theft and misuse of our military aid to countries such as Egypt and Pakistan. Much of this misuse has been recorded by the State Department. Published May 3, 2013
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The Bible recognizes national borders. When Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land, he asked the King of Edom for permission to cross through his kingdom, but "Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army. Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them" (Numbers 20:14-21). Published May 3, 2013
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Presidents never call a news conference unless they have something to say, or, in certain circumstances have to say something, like it or not. President Obama called an unexpected news conference Tuesday, with lots of things he had rather not talk about. Published May 2, 2013
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We should put aside concerns about crime, decrepit schools, perpetual parking and traffic chaos and an unending series of corruption scandals in the District of Columbia government. The D.C. Council is poised to decide what a private business should call itself. Published May 2, 2013
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Recently, General Electric announced that its GE Capital unit would discontinue lending to gun and ammunition manufacturers ("GE Capital cuts lending deals for gun shops," Web, April 25). Under the leadership of current CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, not only has GE become an investor's worst nightmare — with stock prices during his tenure hovering in the $20s — but this once-outstanding and proud enterprise has also become a corporate slug on the political underbelly of the Obama administration. Published May 2, 2013
The administration continues to tie itself in knots to avoid offending Muslims, but offers no such courtesy to Christians. The latest example of official intolerance is the blocking of access on military bases to the Southern Baptists' website because it contains "hostile content." Published May 2, 2013
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