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  • First lady Michelle Obama got rave reviews for the Tracy Reese-designed dress she wore for a speech lauding her husband at the Democratic National Convention on its opening night Tuesday at Time Warner Arena in Charlotte, N.C. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)

    MILLER: Obama's lose-lose proposition

    President Obama's abysmal jobs record is the elephant in a room of donkeys at the Democratic National Convention. The goal in Charlotte, N.C., seems to be to avoid any mention of the bad economy, hoping no one will notice.


  • Illustration: Obama's Constitution

    EDITORIAL: You belong to Barack

    The Obama campaign has disavowed a Democratic National Convention video that said, "Government is the only thing we all belong to." It's odd President Obama would try to distance himself from that idea since in his heart he knows it's right.


  • President Obama speaks during a campaign event at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Democrats travel tricky electoral path with gay marriage

    President Obama's conversion on gay marriage back in May was a bold, public celebration of gay community pride, punctuated with a flurry of lavish Hollywood fundraisers. It played extremely well in Los Angeles, New York and blue regions across the country.


  • WILLIAMS: Running scared

    After a well-executed Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., it is now time for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.


  • Michael Douglas (AP photo)

    Inside the Beltway: Gipper casting

    Rip Torn, Richard Crenna and James Brolin are among the many actors who portrayed President Ronald Reagan in one Hollywood production or another. Now add Michael Douglas to the list.


  • Energy-loan watchdog became Obama donor

    A veteran Wall Street executive who performed a review that exonerated the Obama administration's program of loans to energy companies contributed $52,500 to re-elect President Obama in the months since completing his work, according to an Associated Press review of campaign records.


  • D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Gray urges DNC to put D.C. statehood in its platform

    D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray is lobbying the Democratic National Committee to put D.C. statehood in its party platform ahead of its convention next month in Charlotte, a hopeful push within his own party after Republicans slapped away any talk of D.C. voting rights and urged city lawmakers to relax gun laws in the nation's capital.


  • Paul Ryan

    Foes resurrect Ryan's 2010 Social Security plan

    Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bush pushed the idea in 2005.


  • Illustration Democrats Hating Christians by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DIAZ: Democrats continue to beat up Christians

    Inch by inch, the Democratic Party continues to ostracize Christians. Its latest attack consists of forcing any Christian who would like to support the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) platform to betray his deeply held religious beliefs on the issue of marriage.


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