The tornado in Oklahoma provides a classic example of how national television network news operates, depending on local reporters and camera operators until the big guns arrive to take over. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Andrew P. Napolitano
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. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By John Barrasso
Anger at the Internal Revenue Service’s abuse of power is reaching an all-time high across the country. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
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George W. Bush employed an anti-terrorism strategy of taking the fight to the enemy abroad “so we do not have to face them here at home.” Barack Obama has replaced that with welcoming the enemy to our shores and bestowing on him American citizenship. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
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Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we’ve gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
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President Obama’s choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Daniel Pipes
At this moment of sequestration and belt-tightening, the U.S. government has delivered a reading list on Islam. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By John Kline and Virginia Foxx
Bipartisan compromise is tough to find in Washington right now - but when there is opportunity for agreement, we owe it to the American people to take action. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By J.D. Gordon
For a former senior lecturer in constitutional law, President Obama sure has an interesting viewpoint on the U.S. Constitution. It’s a position that likely would mystify the Founding Fathers and most other presidents in our nation’s history. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times
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. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Suzanne Fields - The Washington Times
Washington is a one-industry town. The nation’s capital has wonderful art museums, concerts and theaters, but they’re only supplements to the big story playing out on the front pages - always the government. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Elaine Donnelly
The latest report by the Defense Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office documents the dysfunctional consequences of social experiments with human sexuality in our military over many years. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Michael T. McCaul
The tragedy in Boston was a wake-up call for Americans. In the years since Sept. 11, 2001, many have moved on from the fear of another imminent terrorist attack. However, the blasts at the Boston Marathon were reminiscent of that day more than a decade ago. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Every four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran engages in a closely choreographed farce of elections, aimed at maintaining the illusion that the Iranian people have a say in how their country is governed. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government’s gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
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Some in the press dismiss the Benghazi congressional investigation as mere partisan politics. Their audience needs to know what this is really about. Published May 21, 2013
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On Memorial Day, we all have a chance to remember the real peace marchers of the world. Published May 21, 2013
By Emily Miller - The Washington Times
As Kermit Gosnell starts his life sentence for murdering babies, Congress is moving to create a federal law against aborting babies in the last months of pregnancy. Published May 21, 2013
By John Solomon - The Washington Times
Across the table at one of Washington's classic power restaurants, my source sat smiling. We hadn't seen each other for more than six years. After the usual opening small talk and pleasantries, I posed the question I had come to dinner to ask. Published May 21, 2013
By Frank T. Csongos - Special to The Washington Times
In his sweeping, intelligent and enormously ambitious book, British historian Brendan Simms argues that whoever controls Central Europe can dominate the world. Published May 21, 2013
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews
Ever since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have implied that he had the makings of a dictator. Published May 20, 2013
By Will Coggin
There's a new dish that's been crafted in several Hill offices: the Congressional Omelet. It's a fairly simple recipe — scramble a bunch of eggs and mix them with a hefty helping of bureaucratic molasses. Published May 20, 2013
By James A. Lyons
President Obama's policy of "change" for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner. Published May 20, 2013
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The Vietnam War and the "war on poverty" are probably the best-remembered elements of President Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy, but that's only part of it. Published May 20, 2013
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The political travails of the Affordable Care Act - aka Obamacare - continue, as witnessed by the furor surrounding Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' attempts to solicit funds to pay for its implementation. Published May 20, 2013
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The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi makes it easy to forget key elements of the story, learned months ago. Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed defending the occupants of the Benghazi mission in Libya. They were killed because they disregarded orders to "stand down." They were killed because they assumed help was on the way. They used a laser to illuminate a mortar position that was attacking the compound and exposed themselves to targeted fire. The help never came. Published May 20, 2013
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The deficit is shrinking, but it's too soon to celebrate a return to sanity. America is still sinking more into debt by the minute and is still on a path to ruin. Published May 20, 2013
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The U.S. Army has recently purchased a large quantity of biofuel-derived jet fuel at a cost of $59 per gallon — in spite of our financial crisis. The insanity of biofuel advocates lingers on like a bad case of the flu that people just cannot shake. Published May 20, 2013
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and T. Michael Andrews - The Washington Times
Ever since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have implied that he had the makings of a dictator. Published May 20, 2013
By Tom Harris and Tim Ball
Ideological environmentalism has killed many of our most important natural-resources companies. Millions of jobs and billions of dollars have been lost. Published May 20, 2013
By Robert Knight - The Washington Times
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. Published May 20, 2013
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Socialism has finally hit the fan in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, though he checked out just in time to miss it. He left millions of Venezuelans struggling to clean up the mess. Published May 20, 2013
By Dan Stein
The Senate "Gang of Eight" immigration bill, S. 744, now wending its way through the Judiciary Committee, has been sold as a "pathway to citizenship" for the estimated 11 million illegal aliens. It does a lot more damage than that, and the public needs to understand what's in it. Published May 20, 2013
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I do not know Jeffrey Scott Shapiro ("Another attempt at nullification," Commentary, May 13), but it is quite obvious that he does not understand the process of nullification. I would attribute that to the fact that the subject of nullification is not being taught today, not even in our law schools. Published May 20, 2013
By David Wilezol - Special to The Washington Times
It's not hard to see that the $490 billion higher-education industry is failing America. One study showed that only 45 percent of students demonstrate any cognitive gains by the middle of their sophomore year. Only about 50 percent of students enrolling in a four-year college graduate within six years. Published May 19, 2013
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