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    PHILLIPS: An opportunity to abolish the IRS

    The news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has targeted Tea Party and conservative groups has come as a huge shock to Republicans. "How could this happen," Republican lawmakers have wailed. Democrats, however, are only upset that Tea Party groups fought back and that the IRS' actions were exposed.

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    Embassy Row: Grave situation

    A leading member of Congress is accusing the Iraqi government of failing to protect unarmed Iranian dissidents from terrorist attacks in a refugee camp near Baghdad.

  • Moniz, McCarthy nomination hearings put spotlight on Obama regulatory agenda

    Two of President Barack Obama's top appointees to oversee energy and pollution policy will take center stage this week at Senate confirmation hearings that should add new detail about the administration's second-term regulatory agenda.

  • ** FILE ** Then-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (left) is greeted by Li Gun of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Department upon arriving at the Pyongyang airport on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN)

    Ex-diplomats Bill Richardson, Madeleine Albright speak candidly about trips to North Korea

    Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson on Sunday said that on one of several trips he made in recent years to North Korea, a leader from the nation did not deny selling nuclear weapons materials to other countries.

  • **FILE** Guns are offered during a buyback program on Jan. 26, 2013, in San Mateo, Calif. Authorities are offering up to $100 cash for a handgun, shotgun or rifle, or up to $200 for an assault rifle at the event at the San Mateo Event Center. (Associated Press)

    Drop-off in gun prosecutions began before Obama

    Gun rights groups have singled out President Obama for failing to prosecute gun crimes, but the drop in cases filed actually began a decade ago under the Bush administration.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    BOVARD: The great farm robbery

    Two years ago, an editorial in The Washington Times demanded an investigation of the billions of dollars in payouts to blacks who asserted that they were wrongly denied subsidized farm loans.

  • SIMMONS: Pumping up the special election for D.C. Council seat

    One of the contenders seeking a citywide seat on the D.C. Council in the upcoming election has found the city's liberal echo chamber to be a not-so-friendly environment.

  • ** FILE ** New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks March 1, 2013, at a news conference at the Pentagon regarding the automatic spending cuts. (Associated Press)

    Pentagon's budget fears fall on media's deaf ears

    The Pentagon's intense public relations campaign is designed to sell Congress and the public on how the first year of "sequester" budget cuts is leaving the U.S. military unable to train or deploy overseas. Public warnings generally have garnered media sympathy, but there have been signs in recent weeks of a backlash from the Washington press corps.

  • Illustration Second Amendment by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    GIFFORD: Gun-grabbers blowing smoke

    If no serious crisis is to be wasted as a chance to sneak laws onto the books that fail the rational reflection test, all “gun control” proposals hastily put forward after the Connecticut elementary school slaughter by a mentally disturbed young man should be seen for what they actually are. They are gradual steps toward the confiscation of firearms from private hands, the “Holy Grail” of “gun control” activism.

  • Liberals looking past Burwell’s Wal-Mart link

    President Obama on Monday nominated Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Office of Management and Budget, a job which places her at the epicenter of the budget wars between the White House and Congress.

  • President Obama announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, March 4, 2013, that he will nominate (from left) Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Ernest Moniz for secretary of energy, Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Wal-mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama taps budget chief, two for climate-change roles

    President Obama on Monday announced nominees for three administration posts likely to be in the thick of the environmental and budget wars of his second term.

  • ** FILE ** This Feb. 15, 2011, file photo shows White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

    Lew's Treasury nomination goes to full Senate

    The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved Jack Lew as the nation’s next secretary of the Treasury amid a bruising confirmation process that delved into his years as a Wall Street executive and a million-dollar payout he received from a bailed-out bank.

  • The Navy has suspended the planned deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman Strike Group, commanded by Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney (above) because of the looming sequester budget cuts. The Truman recently completed a composite unit training exercise, which certified the strike group as ready to deploy, but it will be staying in Norfolk, Va., for the time being. (U.S. Navy)

    Pentagon aims ax to make a point with sequester cuts, uses worst-case scenarios to force deal

    The Obama administration is putting attention-getting Pentagon projects on the chopping block in a bid to pressure Congress into making a deal that avoids $46 billion in military budget cuts March 1, analysts and congressional officials say.

  • Illustration War on Women by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    NANCE: Why Congress ought to ditch VAWA

    Like caring parents teaching our young sons that it’s never right to hit a girl, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), currently up for reauthorization by the U.S. Senate, attempts to teach America the same lesson. Despite the fact that there are nice-sounding solutions in the bill’s language, though, VAWA is failing miserably.

  • **FILE** Eric Cantor (Associated Press)

    Senate loads up renewal of act to protect women

    The Senate is plowing this week toward passage of a bill aimed at domestic abuse for the second time in two years — but with provisions involving gay partners, illegal immigrants and jurisdictional disputes on Indian lands, the legislation faces an uncertain future in the Republican-run House.

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