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    HOLTZ-EAKIN: Get moving on spectrum auction

    As congressional gridlock continues, there is a lot more at stake than payroll taxes, unemployment benefits, doctors' payments, improving job growth and a better budget outlook. Too often good policy gets forgotten amid financial decisions. Unfortunately, spectrum auctions are treated as merely a budgetary means to pay for other programs.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    ELLIG: Washington budget deals: Kitten or cobra?

    The year's myriad high-stakes budget battles - and most of the commentary about them - have focused almost wholly on the game of "Deal or No Deal." The ostensible winner was whichever party got the most of what it wanted while giving up the least.

  • Hadi al-Amiri

    Ex-Iran Guard commander visits White House with Iraq leader

    A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the FBI says played a role in a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, accompanied Iraq's prime minister to the White House on Monday, attending an event at which President Obama trumpeted the end of the Iraq War.

  • ** FILE ** Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan's ambassador in Washington (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    U.S. eases sanctions on Sudanese oil industry

    The Treasury Department has amended economic sanctions against Sudan by allowing U.S. companies to invest in South Sudan's oil market, which has been dominated by China, India and Malaysia.

  • ** FILE ** Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey, New York Democrat (Associated Press)

    Argentine grandmothers seek babies stolen during 'dirty war'

    Members of Argentina's former military junta are being tried on charges of stealing babies from prisoners and giving them away during the South American country's "dirty war" of the 1970s and '80s.

  • Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., questions witnesses during the committee's hearing on Toyota, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Inside Politics

    A key senator says the Federal Aviation Administration could face another shutdown because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that is holding up passage of a long-term funding bill for the agency.

  • Illustration: Camp Ashraf

    LYONS: A matter of honor

    On Oct. 7, 1997, during the Clinton administration, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (POMI/MEK) was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The MEK represents the main opposition group to the Iranian theocracy and has been the source of key intelligence relating to Iran's secret underground nuclear sites. According to a senior Clinton administration official, the designation of the MEK as a terrorist organization was intended as a "goodwill gesture" to Tehran and its newly elected "moderate" President Mohammad Khatami. Such a goodwill gesture coming on the heels of the Khobar Towers bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where we had proof of Iran's involvement, resulting in the killing of 19 U.S. servicemen and the wounding of more than 500 was unbelievable.

  • **FILE** Condoleezza Rice (Associated Press)

    Solyndra hired Rice consulting firm

    Fast running out of money just two years after winning a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees, solar panel maker Solyndra LLC this spring looked overseas to India in hopes of finding new business to turn the company around.

  • Illustration by Donna Grethen

    SAUERBREY: Uncle Sam shakes down banks to pay for fiasco he triggered

    When the government is directly responsible for irresponsible behavior, should it then sue over the consequences?

  • Former President Bill Clinton

    Clinton: Obama's got a good jobs plan

    Former President Bill Clinton said on Sunday that the White House jobs plan will work if Congress passes it, and he downplayed suggestions that President Obama's chances of being re-elected are in jeopardy.

  • Illustration: Craziness by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    JAFFE: Counterproductive craziness at federal agency

    Presidents Ford and Reagan and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were all attacked by people with untreated serious mental illness. In spite of the risk to public safety and homeland security posed by letting some people with serious mental illness go untreated, the federal agency charged with helping them is instead working to see they don't get the treatments they need. That's one reason the newly formed debt-reduction supercommittee should eliminate the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The other is money: The agency receives $3 billion annually.

  • RETURNING:Wendy Sherman is leaving the private sector for a return to the State Department, where she must distance herself from former clients. (Associated Press)

    Undersecretary nominee at State Department returns to revolving door

    For those seeking an example of the revolving door between government and the private sector at the State Department, one need look no further than President Obama's recent nominee for the position of undersecretary for political affairs.

  • NCAA's 'death penalty' could be option for Miami

    NCAA President Mark Emmert says he's willing to back up his tough talk on punishing rule-breakers _ even using the "death penalty" as a deterrent.

  • FILE - This March 13, 2011, file photo shows NCAA President Mark Emmert speaking at a news conference at the men's Final Four, in Houston. Emmert wants to make big changes, and he's asking schools to help. Emmert is to spend Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 9-10, 2011, meeting with more than five dozen university presidents and school administrators about the future of the NCAA.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

    NCAA's 'death penalty' could be option for Miami

    NCAA President Mark Emmert says he's willing to back up his tough talk on punishing rule-breakers — even using the "death penalty" as a deterrent.

  • Former President Bill Clinton

    PRUDEN: The failure of liberal gods

    The gods of the liberals - "progressives," as they insist on calling themselves this season - are failing all over the place. Restless natives are rioting in London. Peasants are getting rich selling 90-proof Oolong in Washington. The elites are "unsettled," as elites always are, in a lot of places between.

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