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  • President Barack Obama waves as walks from Marine One to the White House on the South Lawn after returning to Washington, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Obama spent the weekend in California where he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    LAMBRO: The second-term slump

    By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

    President Obama's job-approval ratings are declining, proving Abraham Lincoln's admonition that you can't fool all the people all the time. Published June 14, 2013

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    EDITORIAL: The good father

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    When they thought nobody was looking, the Obama administration abandoned a lawsuit Monday night that would have halted over-the-counter sale of the "Plan B" abortion pill to girls of any age, no matter how young. Published June 13, 2013

  • Illustration Radical Feminism by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: The baloney merchant

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    So many scandals, so little time. Who can blame President Obama for trying to flee from reality? He ducked out of a Monday photo-op before reporters could ask a question. Published June 12, 2013

  • GAFFNEY: Obama's surrender

    By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

    The White House billed last week's address by President Obama as a major foreign policy address. Indeed, it was. Published May 29, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: Drones at home

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    President Obama pledges to restrict the use of killer drones to missions against America's enemies overseas. Now lawmakers on Capitol Hill need to apply restrictions on drones capable of spying on Americans here at home. Published May 29, 2013

  • LAMBRO: Broadcasting the rules of engagement

    By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

    President Obama's proposed policy changes on the use of drones to kill key terrorist leaders have raised more questions than it has answered. Published May 29, 2013

  • KUHNER: An enormous abuse of IRS power

    By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

    Did President Obama know about his administration's enemies list? If he did - and it looks like he may have - then his presidency is in deep trouble. Published May 24, 2013

  • LAMBRO: Dodging job talk

    By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

    Five months into his improvisational second term, a sluggish economy and severe jobless rate seem to have vanished from President Obama's agenda. Published May 24, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: Another crony for the Cabinet

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    President Obama's choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place. Published May 23, 2013

  • GORDON: 'Wrong-Way' Obama

    By J.D. Gordon

    For a former senior lecturer in constitutional law, President Obama sure has an interesting viewpoint on the U.S. Constitution. It's a position that likely would mystify the Founding Fathers and most other presidents in our nation's history. Published May 23, 2013

  • BARRASSO: The healing powers of pencil pushers

    By John Barrasso

    Anger at the Internal Revenue Service's abuse of power is reaching an all-time high across the country. Published May 23, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: Homegrown jihad

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

    George W. Bush employed an anti-terrorism strategy of taking the fight to the enemy abroad "so we do not have to face them here at home." Barack Obama has replaced that with welcoming the enemy to our shores and bestowing on him American citizenship. Published May 23, 2013

  • EDITORIAL: The Obama enemies list

    By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

    The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government's gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious. Published May 22, 2013

  • LYONS: Dereliction of duty

    By James A. Lyons

    President Obama's policy of "change" for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner. Published May 20, 2013

  • SHAPIRO AND ANDREWS: Transforming democrats to dictators

    By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews

    Ever since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have implied that he had the makings of a dictator. Published May 20, 2013

  • KNIGHT: Taxing the credulity of the Americans

    By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

    Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video. Published May 20, 2013

  • ALLARD: White House watchdogs, or lapdogs?

    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

  • LAMBRO: Setting the scandal tone at the top

    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

  • KUHNER: Lawless in office

    By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

    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

  • HANSON: The end of 'hope and change'

    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

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