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  • SIGNATURE POLICY: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas autographs a supporter's sign as he and his wife, Carol, leave a campaign stop in Rock Hill, S.C., on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Times poll shows GOP schism on interventionism

    Nearly half of all Republican primary voters say it's time the U.S. stops intervening in world affairs and focuses on domestic priorities instead, signaling a persistent rift that is playing out in the party's presidential nomination battle.


  • ** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

    New space-arms control initiative draws concern

    The Obama administration is launching a new space arms-control initiative that critics say will lead to restrictions on U.S. military activities in space, a key U.S. strategic war-fighting advantage.


  • J.C. Watts, a Gingrich national co-chairman, calls social conservatives' endorsement of Rick Santorum in Texas "misleading." (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway

    Interpretations vary as to just what went on at last weekend's conservative gathering in Texas.


  • 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)

    Obama defies Congress with 'recess' picks

    President Obama used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the National Labor Relations Board — moves Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.


  • Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    FIELDS: Grave thoughts on Grim Reaper

    This has been a busy week for the Grim Reaper, slashing out at friend and foe, winning each battle fought against clay-footed humans who earned obituaries on the front page inspired by love or hate or both. Words often have a life of their own, particularly in matters of life and death. Cosmic coincidences in man's fate bring to our attention very different men merely because they died within days of each other.


  • Newt Gingrich

    Gingrich: John Bolton will be my secretary of state

    Newt Gingrich promised conservatives on Tuesday he would ask former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to be his secretary of state if he's elected president next year, according to several of those who met with him


  • Former businessman Herman Cain has said he would change some of the U.N.'s rules. Mr. Cain, a GOP presidential hopeful, says he admires the hard-line foreign-policy views of a former U.S. envoy to the U.N.

    U.N. bashing still popular among GOP candidates

    Bashing the United Nations seldom fails as an applause line for Republican presidential candidates.


  • **FILE** Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (left) speaks Nov. 12, 2011, during the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, S.C., as fellow candidate and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney listens. (Associated Press)

    U.N. bashing is popular among Republican candidates

    Bashing the United Nations seldom fails as an applause line for Republican presidential candidates.


  • The American Conservative Union's "CPAC-FL" gathering is one of a number of major Republican events in and around Orlando, Fla., over the next fewer days. (American Conservative Union)

    Inside the Beltway

    In 24 hours, Republicans descend on Florida en masse for a grand old party for the Grand Old Party. On Thursday, the mighty eight presidential hopefuls meet once again for another debate, this one hosted by Fox News and the Florida Republican Party, staged in Orlando. That's just the opening act, though.


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