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 National Security Agency’s conniving with Verizon to reveal the whereabouts of Americans going about their daily business is the cheap stuff. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Bill McCollum
For years, the need for an immigration court has been obvious, but it has gone unmet. As major immigration-reform legislation moves through Congress, now is the time to create the court, under terms in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Thomas V. DiBacco
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Current Tax Payment Act, which introduced withholding of federal income taxes from employee paychecks. Arguably, it was one of the most important pieces of tax legislation in American history because it provided Washington with a steady stream of money to spend. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Warren L. Dean Jr.
Montgomery County, Md., is home to some of the most accomplished professionals in the nation: lawyers, accountants, academics and authors. That is why the reaction of its congressman to the Internal Revenue Service scandal is so important. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Tim Winter
Our media-consumption habits have been growing into an “on-demand” lifestyle for a number of years now. We demand to have access to our favorite TV shows, whenever and wherever we want. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
On Thursday, I held a news conference announcing my intent to pursue legal action against the federal government for infringing on Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
By Jose R. Cardenas
One of the greatest ironies of the late strongman Hugo Chavez’s rule was that even as he attempted to personify Venezuelan nationalism, he was quietly outsourcing more and more of the country’s sovereignty to the Castro brothers in Cuba. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
By Emily Miller
Six months ago, the nation was horrified that a deranged man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 young children and six educators. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
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Nothing is more personal than the blueprint of life itself, encoded in the DNA that comes with the gift of birth. Advances in medical technology have given scientists the power to read what’s written in those genes, and there’s the problem. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
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The Supreme Court has a new opportunity to set aside a government program that long ago passed its “sell by” date. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the court can strike a blow for good racial relations as well. Published June 14, 2013 Comments
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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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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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
By Charlie Walker
While the Mars rover Curiosity is discovering the building blocks of life on the red planet, many are equally excited about another development: commercial companies have finally discovered profit in space. Published June 3, 2013
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The Obama administration now has three intensifying scandals on its hands, a hat trick of corruption composed of the Benghazi cover-up, the administration's unjustified surveillance of the Associated Press and Fox News, and of course the outrageous abuse of IRS power for partisan purposes. In fact, so many tyrannical abuses are coming to light that the big three are likely only the tip of the iceberg. Published June 3, 2013
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When the time comes to pay the tax man, corporate executives realize the United States is the single worst country in the civilized world to do business. That's a rather stunning development for a country that was founded on the principles of free enterprise. Published June 3, 2013
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I'm actually glad that some of the Obama administration's bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead on the Fourth Estate. Published June 3, 2013
By Lila Rose
So shocking about late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell was how he killed his victims. When we learn how the abortionist slit the necks of struggling, crying infants, moments after a failed abortion, and scissored their spinal cords, we're sickened, and rightfully so. Published June 3, 2013
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To some, Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker is known as "the Bundler" of campaign cash. She is also a Hyatt hotel heiress and billionaire who was President Obama's 2008 campaign-finance manager ("Commerce nominee Pritzker downplays role in management of failed bank," Web, May 23). Published June 3, 2013
By Jeffrey A. Schaler and Richard E. Vatz
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, regardless of version, remains a problem masquerading as a solution for several reasons. Published June 3, 2013
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is a miracle worker. At least, that's what he told the crowd gathered Thursday in Washington at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Published June 3, 2013
By Ian de Silva
There is a common belief that if an immigrant becomes a U.S. citizen, then he has become an American. It is a naive belief. Published June 3, 2013
By Daren Bakst
Congress is once again taking up the farm bill — and continuing to treat agriculture like it was 1933, not 2013. The result is that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to waste. Published June 3, 2013
By Randolph J. May
Suppose I wish to purchase only the sports page of The Washington Times on the theory that it ought to be priced less than the whole newspaper? Published June 3, 2013
By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times
These two books, which can only be described as masterful, are the first ripples of what is certain to be a tsunami of works marking the 100th anniversary of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time). Published June 3, 2013
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For far too long, thousands of Virginians have been stifled in their attempt to fully rejoin society because of the stripping of certain civil rights after convictions of felony crimes. Published June 3, 2013
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The left talks a lot about diversity and academic freedom, but it's rarely practiced. With rare exceptions, the ideological spectrum of the commencement speakers sending graduates out into the real world ranges from far left to even further left. Published June 3, 2013
By F. Vincent Vernuccio
Organized labor has long pointed to pensions as a key reason to join their unions, but many of those promised benefits are now in serious trouble. After decades of promising a secure retirement, unions need to chip in and protect their members' pensions. Published May 31, 2013
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Well, it's starting early this election cycle. Published May 31, 2013
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