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  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Through the Perilous Fight'

    Steve Vogel's "The Perilous Fight" is probably the best piece of military history that I have read or reviewed in the past five years. It is the story of the last six weeks of the war between Great Britain and the United States that began in 1812.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Blood of Tyrants'

    Consider this scenario for a moment. It's 1783, and the American Revolutionary War has ended. The scrappy Colonist forces, led by Gen. George Washington, have defeated the odds, beaten Britain and the European powers (France, Spain and the Netherlands) and won independence.


  • President Obama pauses while talking about national security on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. He was interrupted multiple times by hecklers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    EDITORIAL: Nullifying Obama

    If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is nullification — the idea that states can limit the enforcement of federal laws within their borders.


  • President Obama speaks about national security on May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (Associated Press)

    Obama: Al Qaeda is on 'a path to defeat'; calls for resetting terror policy

    President Obama said Thursday that al Qaeda is nearly defeated and the war on terrorism has changed since he took office, and that demands a broad rethink that includes scaling down drone attacks, transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay and revisiting the 2001 congressional resolution that set the country on perpetual war footing.


  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DIBACCO: The 17th Amendment turns 100

    This month is the 100-year anniversary of the 17th Amendment that provided for the direct election of U. S. senators, superseding provisions of the Constitution mandating election by state legislatures.


  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    NAPOLITANO: Why we should mistrust the government

    It should come as no surprise that President Obama told Ohio State University students at a graduation ceremony last week that they should not question authority and they should reject the calls of those who do.


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    SHAPIRO: Sandy Hook mustn't claim the Second Amendment

    I don't believe the families of the victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., deserve a vote.


  • BracketRacket: 'I thought it's for takeout orders'

    Welcome to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping place for all things NCAA.


  • LIU Brooklyn's Gerrell Martin, left, shoots over James Madison guard Alioune Diouf in the first half of a first-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)

    NCAA tournament: A.J. Davis, James Madison win opener

    The Dukes (21-14) advance to meet top-seeded Indiana (27-6) on Friday night at the same University of Dayton Arena.


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