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    HANSON: When paranoia becomes prescience

    Government is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers.

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    NAPOLITANO: Tyranny just around the corner

    A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America.

  • 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.

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    TYRRELL: The beauty of confusion in officialdom

    Where are we now in this morass of Obama administration scandals? We have The Associated Press imbroglio. We have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the Internal Revenue Service imbroglio.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Benghazi victims could be alive today

    We keep hearing from the president and some congressmen that Benghazi, Libya, is a sideshow. If it were about who changed talking points or security, I would agree.

  • **FILE** Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington on March 13, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Cabinet shake-up begins in Libya under new law

    Libya's prime minister has nominated a new interior minister to fill the first spot vacated in his Cabinet, a consequence of a new law that bars officials who had served under late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from holding public office.

  • FBI identifies 5 suspects in Benghazi attack; no arrests yet

    U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

  • **FILE** Mohamed al-Megariaf, then the Libyan interim president, flashes the victory sign to crowds during the celebration of the second anniversary of the Libyan revolution in Benghazi, Libya, on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Libyan leaders expected to step down soon

    A political crisis is brewing in Libya with the imminent resignations of the president of the legislature, dozens of lawmakers and as many as eight Cabinet ministers, following the adoption of a law that bans officials who had served under late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from holding public office.

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    LYONS: Dereliction of duty

    President Obama's policy of "change" for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner.

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    KNIGHT: Taxing the credulity of the Americans

    Barack Obama says he is angry about the Internal Revenue Service singling out conservative and Tea Party groups for rough treatment, even though it may or may not have something to do with an anti-Muslim video.

  • ** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, file photo, Libyans walk on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)

    Republicans weigh risks, benefits of select committee on Benghazi

    House Republicans want their party leaders to name a special committee to take control of the inquiry into the Benghazi terrorist attack, but House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has resisted — largely, analysts say, because the long-term political risks of a high-profile probe could outweigh any short-term benefit.

  • ** FILE ** Black smoke rises from a burning house in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Oct. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

    Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

  • ** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, a man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The graffiti reads, "no God but God," " God is great," and "Muhammad is the Prophet." (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)

    U.S. upgrades Benghazi mission to 'capture or kill'

    The U.S. military has a new set of orders in its pursuit of the terrorists who are guilty of killing four Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi: Capture or kill.

  • President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (Associated Press)

    Obama tries to talk economy amid din of scandal

    While much of Washington was riveted Friday on a Republican-led congressional hearing into abuse of power by the IRS, President Obama traveled to Baltimore to promote a jobs plan and decry lawmakers for "chasing every fleeting issue."

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Benghazi victims never forgotten

    Liberals call patriotic Americans partisan, political Obama-haters who are trying to tear our government apart over Benghazi. Yet four Americans, pleading for help to no avail, were savagely slain on American soil in Libya by Islamist terrorists — and they not only got abandoned, the responsible parties in the White House and State Department totally lied and tried to cover up what actually happened there on Sept. 11, 2012.

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