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    Right now, the president is demagoguing the rich, as he has been doing for his entire political career (which, come to think of it, actually isn't a very long time).

  • President Obama, accompanied by Richard Cordray, visits a home in Cleveland on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. In a defiant display of executive power, Mr. Obama bucked Senate Republican opposition to appoint Mr. Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. (Associated Press)

    Justice Department: Recent recess appointments legal

    The Justice Department is defending the legality of President Obama's recent recess appointment of a national consumer watchdog and other officials from criticism by Republicans.

  • Illustration: Unions by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    MURDOCK: Labor leaders tell Obama to quit killing jobs

    As 9.1 percent unemployment plagues America this Labor Day, major unions are clashing with a Democratic administration with which they normally would march in lockstep. Echoing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at least seven unions are begging Team Obama to abandon regulations, statements and procedures that prevent jobs from being created or saved.

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Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, says taxpayers are on the hook for hefty fees paid to environmental lawyers who sue the federal government for compliance.

    Two senators riled by EPA payouts in lawsuits

    A new government watchdog report says environmental lawyers have collected millions of dollars in lawyers' fees from taxpayers by suing and winning cases against the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • City State: Morning Roundup

    Report: Pepco most hated U.S. company; Gray nominee rejected; fight for control of Virginia Senate taking shape; McDonnell endorses congressional plan to cut spending; District won't meet deadline on national sex-offender registry; District among hottest U.S. cities.

  • Former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. ends his address to graduates of the South Carolina Honors College and the College of Arts and Sciences Saturday, May 7, 2011, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

    Huntsman addresses his Obama role in S.C. speech

    Republican Jon Huntsman, weighing a White House bid, used his first formal event after stepping down as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China to confront the line on his resume that conservatives were most likely to declare a deal-breaker.

  • Embassy Row

    Only three months after President Obama took office, Poland felt abandoned by the new Democratic administration, which was suspected of moving quietly to kill a Bush-era, Polish-based missile-defense shield for Eastern Europe that Russia strongly opposed.

  • BOOK REVIEW: When two conservatives ran

    In his excellent book "The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election," Garland S. Tucker III provides a timely perspective on the last election in which both major parties nominated candidates committed to limited government, low taxes and individual liberty.

  • Sen. Jon Kyl walks near the Senate floor on Wednesday. He and 25 of his Republican colleagues voted against the arms-control treaty.

    Senate ratifies New START; Obama gets 'reset' with Russia

    The Senate ratified Wednesday an arms-control treaty with Russia that President Obama has made the centerpiece of his disarmament agenda and diplomatic "reset" with Russia.

  • Judges stance bolsters McCain

    federal judgeships.

  • High-court fears drive conservatives to rally around McCain, overlook flaws

    Prominent conservatives and activists are indicating they will put aside their differences with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and rally their supporters to his side because of one issue: federal judgeships.

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