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Do you think anti-terror measures have changed much since President Obama took office?

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**FILE** President Obama speaks May 8, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

Sparks fly in debt brawl redux at White House meeting

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

President Obama’s meeting with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders Wednesday, during which he planned to lecture them on his five-point to-do list of economic priorities, quickly devolved into a redux of last year’s showdown over the federal budget.

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** FILE ** Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, March 26, 2012, for breathing room until after Mr. Obama's re-election campaign to negotiate on missile defense. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

As G-8 leaders arrive, new doubts about Obama’s international clout

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

As President Obama prepares to host the NATO and Group of Eight international summits this weekend, there are increasing signs that the world is brushing him aside.

Report: Mismanagement rampant at airports authority

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The regional authority overseeing one of the largest public works projects in the country is rife with mismanagement, a glaring lack of transparency and lavish spending habits that have included thousand-dollar dinners and a $9,200 plane ticket to Prague, according to a scathing interim report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s inspector general.

Marine Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, introduces President Obama at Bagram Air Field on May 2. As president, Mr. Obama has continued and even built upon strategies he inherited from George W. Bush. (Associated Press)

Bush policies he reviled are crux of Obama’s arsenal

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This month’s revival of terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay underscores President Obama’s reliance on counterterrorism tools he inherited from George W. Bush.

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Little goes right for Strasburg in Nats' 6-1 loss

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Md. House passes tax increases

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Pop tart Britney Spears, thought by some to have conservative Republican leanings, has in fact been largely apolitical. (Associated Press)

Credulous Republicans and the urban legend of a 'conservative' Britney Spears

By James Frazier - Special to The Washington Times

Despite the widespread assumption of Britney Spears’ right-ish leanings, she has never been known to her fans as a politically active, committed — or even aware — entertainer. And it turns out the claims for her conservative proclivities have been unsupported by much in the way of evidence, even of the anecdotal variety. On closer inspection — indeed, even on perfunctory inspection — it appears that the belief that Miss Spears leans right is, at least as of now, little more than an urban legend.