The Washington Times
Barack Obama

Topic - Barack Obama

Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM
Related Stories
  • Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (left), Montana Democrat, accompanied by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the committee's ranking Republican, questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2013, during the committee's hearing on the IRS practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (Associated Press)

    Parties divide over IRS scandal fallout

    Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday the IRS, while engaging in "unacceptable" targeting of conservative groups, may have been set up for failure by campaign finance law ambiguities that allowed tax-exempt groups to engage in partisan politics without disclosing their donors.

  • ** FILE ** Attorney General Eric Holder is questioned about the Justice Department secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    PRUDEN: Mr. Obama and green persimmons

    The Republicans who can't wait to talk impeachment should sit down, shut up, and be patient. President Obama may yet deserve impeachment, but we're not there yet. Patience, as anyone old enough to remember Watergate knows, is how this game is played.

  • Guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility's open-air common area at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

    Pentagon requests $450 million for Guantanamo

    The Pentagon wants more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

  • The new Yardarm Technologies LLC system would trigger an alarm on a gun owner's cellphone if their gun is moved, and the owner could then hit a button to activate the safety and disable the weapon. (yardarmtech.com)

    With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely

    A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely.

  • Director John O. Brennan on Monday stands before 107 stars at CIA headquarters in Langley representing those who have died in service to the agency since 1947. (CIA)

    Inside the Beltway: Persistent birthers

    Yes, President Obama's birth certificate was made public two years ago and even emblazoned upon a Democratic fundraiser coffee mug during the 2012 presidential campaign. But the "birther" issue which so intrigued Donald Trump has yet to disappear.

  • **FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 16, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Boehner: Obama administration will get what it needs for Oklahoma

    House Speaker John A. Boehner said repeatedly on Tuesday that he will work with the Obama administration to make sure that it has the resources it needs to support Oklahoma in the wake of the deadly tornado that swept through the state Monday.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    PARISI: SOS: Save our Scouts

    "Keep sex and politics out of Scouting."

  • Thank you for Benghazi coverage

    Thank you for running "Countdown: The Benghazi scandal" by Rowan Scarborough (page A1, May 17) and giving it proper coverage on the front page. We subscribe to both the Washington Post and The Washington Times, and as usual the Post downplayed the Benghazi scandal; there was no mention of it on the front page.

  • Associated Press

    FBI identifies 5 suspects in Benghazi attack; no arrests yet

    U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Transforming democrats to dictators

    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.

  • Mark Weber

    KNIGHT: Taxing the credulity of the Americans

    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.

  • **FILE** Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

    Labor union chief calls immigration bill dangerous, sees agency as 'approval machine'

    The Senate's immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than "rubber-stamp" illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees who will have to approve the applications.

  • **FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice. (Associated Press)

    Probes of journalists widen under Obama; reporter group calls it 'overreaching dragnet'

    Maybe most surprising in the Justice Department's subpoenas of phone records from The Associated Press was how wide the Obama administration cast its net: 20 phone lines, used by up to 100 reporters.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    HARRIS AND BALL: Lighting Big Green's match to burn King Coal

    Ideological environmentalism has killed many of our most important natural-resources companies. Millions of jobs and billions of dollars have been lost.

  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    LYONS: Dereliction of duty

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

More Stories →

Quotations
  • President Barack Obama stressed the point this week, saying: "So let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way."

    Expect to pay more at the plate for shrimp →

  • President Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes."

Happening Now