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  • ** FILE ** Van Jones focused on green jobs, enterprise and innovation as a special adviser on the Council on Environmental Quality.

    Ex-Obama czar Van Jones takes to Twitter to tout arrest — that he requested

    Former Obama administration green czar Van Jones took to Twitter on Monday to tout his arrest for a courthouse protest against Big Coal — the arrest he asked police to make.


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    Ex-White House czar Van Jones calls part of Obama's budget a 'doozy' of a mistake

    One of President Obama's own campers — former White House green-jobs czar Van Jones — has come out in opposition to portions of the president's budget, presented to Congress on Wednesday.


  • ** FILE **  Van Jones is seen at the National Summit in Detroit in on June 16, 2009. The White House issued a statement early Sunday saying Mr. Jones had quit the administration. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

    Van Jones: 'Rand Paul was a hero yesterday'

    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster against John Brennan's appointment to the CIA has gained national applause, and criticism, but one person who is standing with the senator on the president's drone program is a very unlikely ally — Van Jones.


  • Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes shrugs off the idea that, at age 71, he may have mellowed. "When there is an occasion, I will do what I have to do, and I will win. Is that mellowing? I tend to see it more as picking my battles a little better than I used to." (Associated Press)

    Van Jones: Roger Ailes calling Obama 'lazy' is racist

    Fox News chief Roger Ailes has stirred up some controversy in his new biography that includes critiques against Newt Gingrich, Joe Biden and President Barack Obama. The biography, by Zev Chafets, quotes Mr. Ailes as saying that President Obama “never earned a penny that wasn’t public money.”


  • Christopher Jordan Dorner (Associated Press)

    CNN host: Can Dorner teach us anything about gun violence?

    CNN's Carol Costello asked her panel a question Wednesday morning that might have a few people scratching their heads. The "CNN Newsroom" host asked nonprofits founder Van Jones, Politic365's Jason Johnson and The New York Times' Ross Douthat if the Christopher Dorner case teaches us anything about guns.


  • Illustration Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    SCANLON: Obama's radical energy transformation reversal

    President Obama has his second term and will never face voters again. On one of his highest priorities -- energy and the environment -- he's free to be the "transformational" figure he always wanted to be.


  • Illustration: Obamacarter by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: Barack's free pass

    A new poll by the Hill found that 52 percent of respondents think President Obama does not deserve a second term, while 40 percent think he does. With economic growth stalled, unemployment climbing and record numbers of Americans on food stamps, the question is not why the re-elect number is so low but why Mr. Obama's support is so high.


  • Illustration Torching the Flag by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    RUSH: The Obama campaign's race-card gambit

    While Vice President Joseph R. Biden's "back in chains" remark in front of a largely black audience on Aug. 14 definitely can be considered race-baiting, based on the Obama administration's reaction, it was more an off-the-cuff embarrassment than part of a calculated effort to rile black Americans and engender fear.


  • Illustration Assault on free speech by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: Leftist assault on free speech and conscience

    Have you heard of SWATing? Someone calls 911 falsely claiming that a person has killed someone or is about to do so. It can bring down a world of hurt, complete with sirens and a SWAT team with drawn guns.


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