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  • ** FILE ** Michael V. Hayden headed the CIA from 2006 to 2009.

    TAUBE: Rejecting terror's 'new normal'

    Whether we like to admit it or not, the war on terrorism is still being fought. The immediate challenge is to identify the best strategy to permanently defeat the terrorist menace. Unless you share Gen. Michael V. Hayden's defeatist view of world affairs, that is.

  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: Moment of truth on Benghazi

    The dam seems to be breaking on the nearly eight-month-long cover-up concerning the deadly jihadist attack on Americans and their facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: Getting rich by selling hate

    While the media cheer the Obama administration and Senate Democrats as they exploit the Newtown, Conn., school massacre to push gun-control laws that would hamper law-abiding citizens, they won't connect some more obvious dots to another shooting.

  • (Screen shot of Indiana University's website)

    Indiana University awarded $423K stimulus to explore 'condom use problems'

    Trustees at Indiana University reported this week that a study on how to properly use condoms had been completed — and that funding for the research had come from federal stimulus dollars, to the tune of $423,500.

  • ** FILE ** A premature infant. (Associated Press)

    Planned Parenthood lobbyist suggests killing newborn OK

    A lobbyist for Planned Parenthood told Florida lawmakers this week that what doctors do with babies who were supposed to be aborted but were instead born alive is the doctors' business — suggesting killing was okay.

  • Mao Zedong (Associated Press)

    Education Department posts, then removes quote by Mao Zedong

    The Department of Education pulled a "Quote of the Day" by Chinese dictator Mao Zedong from its children's website Friday after a screenshot of the quote went viral.

  • Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Friday, July 20, 2012. Mr. Kolengi was killed and his wife injured in a suicide bombing near the Burgos, Bulgaria, airport two days earlier. (Associated Press)

    John Kerry, Michelle Obama to honor Egyptian girl tainted by anti-Jewish tweets

    First lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry are set to bestow Thursday an award of courage on a young Egyptian girl who exposed the country's practice of subjecting females to virginity tests.

  • ** FILE ** A bombing targeted a bus full of Israeli vacationers at the Burgas, Bulgaria, airport parking lot on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

    State Department halts award for Egyptian accused of anti-Semitic remarks

    The Obama administration reversed course Thursday and said it no longer would give a prestigious international women's award to an Egyptian political activist after she was accused of posting anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist comments on Twitter.

  • Photographs by Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times
A crowd estimated at 50,000 takes part in TheCall DC, a Christian rock concert and day of prayer and fasting, Saturday on the National Mall.

    Taxpayers pick up Asian hip-hop tour promoted by U.S. State Department

    The U.S. State Department is going hip-hop. The department's Bureau of Educations and Cultural Affairs said it's sending the San Francisco-based hip hop group, Audiopharmacy, on a Southeast Asia and Pacific tour, as part the federal agency's American Music Abroad program.

  • ** FILE ** Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

    Pentagon begins campaign to bust 'myths' about nominee Hagel

    The Pentagon has begun a campaign to rebut what it calls "myths" about Defense Secretary-designate Chuck Hagel and is sending to senators documents purporting to show that he is pro-Israel and tough on Iran.

  • Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) greets acting CIA Director Michael J. Morell after attending a news conference at the White House on Monday, at which President Obama announced that he is nominating his deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism and John O. Brennan (left) as the CIA chief. (Associated Press)

    Nominations pick fight with GOP

    Chuck Hagel faces a tough confirmation fight, but rejecting President Obama's pick to head the Pentagon would be an almost unprecedented act for the Senate, which has rarely rejected a Cabinet nominee chosen from within its own ranks.

  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    Graham: Defense cuts would hurt Middle East operations

    A key member of the Senate Armed Services Committee warned Tuesday that the United States will not be able to confront threats in the Middle East, including Iran's nuclear program, if the Pentagon must cut an additional $500 billion from its budget over the next decade.

  • Illustration Marrying the Government by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    FIELDS: Tying the knot with Big Daddy

    My son, age 42, finally married. His bride walked down a red carpet with rose petals scattered by his 8-year-old twin nieces to join a cantor who sang the Jewish blessings under a chuppah, a canopy held by a man on each corner, in a quasi-traditional wedding ceremony.

  • Inside the Beltway: Vegetarians have a squawk

    Vegetarians could very well join President Obama's circle of special interest groups.

  • Petraeus affair and the role of biographers

    The affair between retired Army Gen. David Petraeus and author Paula Broadwell is but an extreme example of the love/hate history between biographers and their subjects.

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