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  • FDA helps states get execution drugs

    The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that it has nothing to do with drugs used in executions, quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a scarce type of anesthetic so the states could continue putting inmates to death.


  • Political Scene

    The share of Americans who made a long-distance move dropped to a record low last year as many young adults, struggling without jobs, opted to stay put rather than relocate to other parts of the U.S.


  • FILE - This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. In response to state queries, the FDA has announced it will not stop overseas shipments to the U.S. of the execution drug sodium thiopental, because the agency does not regulate products used in lethal injection. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

    AP Enterprise: FDA helps states get execution drug

    The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that it has nothing to do with drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a scarce type of anesthetic so the states could continue putting inmates to death.


  • Activists hold placards with Chinese words that say "release Liu Xiaobo and Gao Zhisheng" during a protest outside the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong in May as they demand the Chinese government to release the political prisoners who are in urgent health conditions. This week's resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics say is a deterioration in Beijing's record on legal protections, free speech and civil society, and are expected to take up individual cases such as Liu Xiaobo's, along with a list of topics including religious freedom, attacks on the legal profession and China's strict Internet controls. (Associated Press)

    Report: Beijing's rights promises unfulfilled

    An international human rights group is charging China's government with continuing to violate its citizens' human rights and undermining its own plan to protect civil and political rights during the past two years.


  • Illustration: OECD by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    RAHN: Defund organizations that destroy freedom

    Do you think your tax dollars should be used to fund organizations that advocate higher taxes on American citizens? Well, that is exactly what has been happening. The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in addition to reducing big, wasteful and unnecessary spending, also needs to go after and defund those programs and activities that are downright destructive.


  • Health care costs unfair to military families

    Once again, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has proposed an increase in health care premiums for military retirees and their families as a way to save money and cut the Department of Defense budget.


  • Giffords a rare model of bipartisanship

    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, was politically vulnerable in the 2010 elections because of her support for Obamacare, but one can misread a political candidate by focusing on only one issue.


  • Supreme Court's abortion overreach

    All government officials in the United States pledge to uphold the Constitution as written. These oaths affirm that the rule of law is superior to the rule of any person or group.


  • ** FILE ** (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

    EDITORIAL: Heather has two passports

    The Obama administration's war on traditional values is picking up steam. Just three days before Christmas, the State Department buried an announcement that "mother" and "father" were being banished from the bureaucratic lexicon. In their place, politically correct terms intended to appeal to the vanity of homosexual activists will be inserted.


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