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  • Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ted Cruz celebrates with his wife Heidi during a victory speech Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Houston. Cruz defeated Democrat Paul Sadler to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

    EDITORIAL: On the bright side

    Election Day wasn't a total disaster for the right. The same country that re-elected the most liberal president since Franklin D. Roosevelt also renewed the speakership of Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner. Senate Democrats maintained their slim majority, but the GOP pulled off a more important coup in the upper chamber: The caucus is growing more conservative.


  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gives a thumbs up as he arrives to give his concession speech during his election night rally in Boston on Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Tea partyers say GOP must learn from defeat

    Slamming the Republican Party establishment for tapping Mitt Romney as its standard-bearer, the co-founder of the nation's largest tea party group said Wednesday the lessons learned from the 2012 presidential election will strengthen the grass-roots movement, making it an even more important part of the GOP's future.


  • Five things to watch on Election Day

    Mercifully, you likely have watched your last political ad of the season. There'll be no more robo calls to your phone or flyers in your mailbox. All that's left to do is to cast your vote on Tuesday, then relish an immediate future free of smothering politics.


  • Connor encounters an unlucky British soldier in the video game Assassin's Creed III.

    Zadzooks: Assassin’s Creed III review

    Desmond Miles’ stealthy ancestors are on hand to witness the birth of a nation while killing plenty of redcoats in a riveting third-person adventure game.


  • Illustration Obama's anti-Christianity by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: Faithful flexing muscles before Election Day

    Economic issues seem to be dominating the 2012 campaign, but a quiet electoral revolution is brewing. The "religious vote" is on the move, and it's not going leftward.


  • Inside the Beltway: Teachable moment

    "President Obama needs to learn that being president isn't just about being on TV and protecting your job. It's about leadership. it's time for a president who gets it." At least that's what the latest American Crossroads campaign ad says.


  • Inside Poltics: Kentucky House candidate to air ad featuring fetus

    An anti-abortion activist who is running for Congress says he will air an ad this week in Kentucky and Indiana showing a dismembered fetus.


  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘Government Bullies’

    This Rand Paul guy moves, I tell you: a book on the Tea Party last year; a satchel full of so-far vainly introduced legislation, with fetching titles such as the Freedom From Over-Criminalization and Unjust Seizures (FOCUS) Act; and this new book, bubbling with righteous indignation.


  • Illustration Obama Roads by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    CRUZ: Election 2012: Greatness or decline?

    Every four years, we hear the same line: No election in history has ever mattered more than this one. This election, however, truly will determine whether our nation's path veers toward greatness or continued decline.


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