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  • ** FILE ** New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. (Associated Press)

    The Wrap: From Ron Paul's call to end the IRS, to the London machete attack, the week that was

    President Obama's foreign policy speech was stopped multiple times by Code Pink heckling, and Lois Lerner was suspended from the her position at the IRS. On the international stage, two men in the United Kingdom murdered a soldier in the streets of London. Here's a recap, or wrap, of the week that was from The Washington Times.

  • New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

    EDITORIAL: The nanny blows his top

    New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is still smarting from the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of "supersized" sodas. He blew his top last week at a second judicial slight.

  • New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (Associated Press)

    NYC Mayor Bloomberg's gun group targets Mark Pryor with $350K ads

    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun group has kept its word to go after vulnerable Republican seats, and launched on Friday a $350,000 ad campaign against Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor.

  • White House Press Secretary Jay Carney smiles after being wished a happy birthday by a reporter during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. At the briefing Carney announced that President Obama will travel to Oklahoma to visit tornado affected communities. (Associated Press)

    Carney tries on new charm offensive

    After enduring two weeks of withering criticism for his shifting narrative about the IRS targeting conservative groups and the White House's involvement in changing Benghazi talking points, White House spokesman Jay Carney made an obvious effort to try to curry a little favor with the White House press corps Wednesday.

  • A U.S. Army recruit negotiates the confidence course during the white phase of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., on June 14, 2006. The training lasts nine weeks and is divided into red, white and blue phases. Soldiers in the white phase are in their final three weeks. (Department of Defense/Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall, U.S. Air Force)

    Adultery charge takes down Fort Jackson general

    A U.S. Army Training Center commander at Fort Jackson in South Carolina was suspended over allegations he committed adultery, a military spokesman said.

  • ** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    Mayor Bloomberg to cabbie: 'I'll destroy your [expletive] industry'

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg cursed out the chief executive officer of a taxi company who won a court case against the city and pledged a post-mayoral revenge against the entire industry, the CEO and one witness said.

  • ** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    Ex-Bloomberg guard admits gunshot cover-up

    A former security guard for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — one of the most vociferous voice in America for gun control — admitted Thursday that he shot at his then-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and then covered it up, concerned about the national attention it would bring his unit.

  • Credit: U.S. Marine Corps

    Pentagon war costs lowest since 2005

    The Pentagon will ask Congress for about $79.5 billion for overseas combat operations next fiscal year, the lowest annual cost for the war on terror since 2005, as U.S. troops and their equipment start to come home from Afghanistan, officials and news reports said Friday.

  • Rachel Sorrow (left), a transgender woman, attends a therapy session with Dr. Dan Karasic, a psychiatrist with the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Doctors warn new psychiatric guide could drug people who don’t need it

    An estimated 3,000 doctors have signed a petition of protest against the psychiatric industry's latest bible for diagnosis and treatment, the DSM-5, charging its contents could lead patients to be prescribed unnecessary medications.

  • An Afghan national army commando inspects a cell phone during a mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2012. Coalition special operations forces advised the more than 100 commandos as they searched an Afghan village for weapons caches and known anti-Afghanistan forces. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Clayton Weis/Released)

    Apple, Samsung smart phones will let hackers into military's networks: experts

    The military’s decision to allow smartphones on its networks will open them up to hackers and foreign cyber-spies, despite efforts to reinforce security.

  • ** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    EDITORIAL: Gunning for Democrats

    Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes, because you might get it. Until recently, gun-fearing Senate Democrats were positively giddy about getting access to the deep pockets of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund.

  • ** FILE ** A U.S. Humvee of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, drives near a crater caused by a roadside bomb attack on a U.S. vehicle in Tangi Valley in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2009.

    Cost for U.S. to exit Afghanistan: $7 billion

    It's going to cost the United States about $7 billion to withdraw from Afghanistan, defense experts estimate.

  • MILLER: Bloomberg, Obama and liberal media muzzled about gun crime decline

    New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has not made a peep about gun control since news came out that firearms-related deaths were way down. President Obama has ignored it and continued to pursue more gun-control laws. Their reaction shows how this news screws up their agenda to keep the decline in gun-related homicides a secret from Americans so that they can pass restrictions on the Second Amendment.

  • Michael Moore

    Michael Moore on Bloomberg's gun control: 'It's wonderful!'

    Hollywood's Michael Moore couldn't gush enough about New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's nationwide push for gun control.

  • ** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    HURT: Beware of Michael Bloomberg — the rabid gun snatcher of New York

    Big Apple Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his band of rabid gun snatchers have targeted their victims, taken them hostage and will start bumping them off one by one. Time for negotiation has passed.

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