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Analysis: Op-Eds

Issues: Homeland Security

Obama defends surveillance that he decried as senator

By David Freddoso | 06/17/13 06:45 PM

The civil libertarian Left and much of the public have reversed positions on phone monitoring since George W. Bush was president. "I don't have to listen to your phone calls to know what you're doing," said the senator, mounting a vigorous defense of civil liberties against government...
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Opinion: Op-Eds

Nothing but blood in Syrian intervention for U.S.

06/17/13 06:55 PM

The American people, chastened by the long Iraq entanglement, oppose another intervention, but the lesson has been lost of the leadership class A "red line" has been crossed, deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told the media last week: U.S. intelligence has determined with "high...
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Opinion: Op-Eds

Syria not yet at war's end

By James Jay Carafano | 06/17/13 04:25 PM

"I have said this 38,000 times: ... This tragedy is not something that can be settled from the outside, and it's about damn well time that everybody understood that." — Lawrence Eagleburger, 1992 Then-Secretary of State Eagleburger spoke some hard truths about the Bosnian War. One year into...
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Opinion: Op-Eds

Sen. Charles Schumer's choice: Immigration reform or a campaign issue

By Hugh Hewitt | 06/16/13 06:20 PM

Immigration reform, including the regularization of the nation's 11 million-plus illegal immigrants, appeals to a large slice of the conservative movement -- if it is accompanied by genuine border security, specifically a very long, very strong border fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sen....
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Opinion: Op-Eds

Think Tank Takes: Reasons to worry about jobs data

06/11/13 04:30 PM

That unemployment rose but the employment-to-population ratio did not rise illustrates a larger problem facing the economy: While unemployment has dropped, the proportion of Americans with jobs has scarcely increased since the recession ended. Unemployment looks better only because millions of...
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Republican Party, Op-Eds

Star Parker: Traditional values will attract more blacks to GOP

By Star Parker | 06/16/13 07:35 PM

Anyone who doubts that the Republican Party can attract black voters need only look south to Louisiana. During @Large -- a conference in Baton Rouge in May aimed at attracting black...
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Op-Eds, Columnists

Gregory Kane: Nothing says NBA must be all-black

By Gregory Kane | 06/16/13 04:30 PM

By the time this column runs on June 17, the National Basketball Association championship series will be almost over. So what better time to reflect on what might have been the oddest NBA story...
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Eric Holder, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: A culture of lawlessness prevails in Eric Holder's Justice Department

By J. Christian Adams and Hans A. von Spakovsky | 06/14/13 07:55 AM

Scripture teaches us that the law is good, but only if man uses it lawfully. Sadly, Eric Holder's tenure as President Obama's Attorney General will be remembered for dishonesty and abuse of power....
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Op-Eds

Op-Ed: A school for tomorrow being built in today's Ward 8

By Donald L. Hense | 06/11/13 03:10 PM

Last week, the board of trustees of Friendship Public Charter School and I broke ground at the site of what will become the campus of the Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy. Construction of...
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Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Environment, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Beware of the back-door EPA effort to impose cap-and-trade on gasoline

By Matt Dempsey | 06/09/13 04:50 PM

Is the Environmental Protection Agency working behind closed doors to impose a global warming mandate on transportation fuels that will make drivers pay more for gasoline and weaken America's...
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Labor, Labor unions, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Time for an official end to federal employee union subsidies

By Trey Kovacs and Alex Habighorst | 06/05/13 04:35 PM

Did you know you're paying for union officials to do union business with your tax dollars, a practice known as "official time"? If not, you aren't the only one -- official time statistics are...
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Health & Human Services, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: The Sebelius shakedown and the Obamacare failure

By Reince Priebus | 06/03/13 03:55 PM

On Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress about her latest (potentially unethical, potentially illegal) stunt to fundraise for Obamacare. For...
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IRS, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Hard questions that demand answers on IRS IG's investigation

By Rep. Mark Meadows | 06/03/13 03:15 PM

Despite making national headlines for its most recent abuse of power, the Internal Revenue Service is giving disturbingly few answers regarding its targeting of political groups. Treasury...
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Labor, Labor unions, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: 'Whites need not apply' at D.C. labor board?

By Hans A. von Spakovsky | 06/03/13 12:25 PM

Ondray Harris, the African-American executive director of the Public Employee Relations Board of the District of Columbia, stepped down last week. His resignation letter provides a disturbing...
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Agriculture, Environment, Op-Eds

The Natural Resources Defense Council was right on Alar in 1989 and it still is

By Mitchell S. Bernard | 06/02/13 03:10 PM

Ron Arnold's recent column ("Big Green's anti-fracking operatic chorus hits false note,") is based on a factually incorrect premise, namely, that my organization "falsely" claimed that the...
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Agriculture, Environment, Op-Eds

NRDC was right on Alar in 1989 and it still is

By Mitchell S. Bernard | 05/31/13 03:25 PM

Ron Arnold's recent column ("Big Green's anti-fracking operatic chorus hits false note," May 9, 2013) is based on a factually incorrect premise, namely that my organization "falsely" claimed that...
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China, Op-Eds

Jed Babbin: Obama's empty warnings to China won't stop hacking

By Jed Babbin | 05/31/13 12:45 PM

A news report earlier this week said that Chinese cyberspies had stolen the designs for many of the United States' most advanced weapon systems. In response, the article said, the Obama...
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Barack Obama, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: President Obama is responsible for his administration

By Tom Price | 05/29/13 02:05 PM

From questions regarding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to the snooping of reporters' private communications, it's hard to keep track of the scandals surrounding the Obama...
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Republican Party, Immigration, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Amnesty will not win Hispanic votes for Republicans

By Ian de Silva | 05/29/13 01:25 PM

Though many Republicans will not publicly admit it, their support for the so-called "immigration reform" under way in Congress is based on the notion that an amnesty for illegal aliens -- most of...
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IRS, Op-Eds

Think Tank Takes: Did Lois Lerner incriminate herself?

| 05/27/13 01:35 PM

It is not clear that Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the IRS's tax-exempt organizations office, waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as has been suggested by...
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The Pentagon, Op-Eds

As we thank those who died for our freedom, let's remember our living heroes, too

By Harry Croft and sydney Savion | 05/27/13 09:15 AM

On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, it is also a time to remember those who served and are still living. The military...
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Barack Obama, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Obama's civil liberties abuses expose liberal hypocrisy

By Matt Patterson | 05/24/13 02:25 PM

Washington's unfolding scandal concerning the IRS targeting of conservative groups has, if nothing else, laid bare the rank hypocrisy of too many among the liberal elite. How many times did we...
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Russia, Op-Eds

Jed Babbin: Why Putin's anti-American gambits succeed

By Jed Babbin | 05/23/13 02:30 PM

Thanks to an assortment of White House spokesmen, we know that President Obama wasn't talking with then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the night of...
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Op-Eds, Health

Op-Ed: Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis

By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller | 05/20/13 02:20 PM

Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and...
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Benghazi, Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Benghazi is serious, but it's not Watergate

By Douglas MacKinnon | 05/20/13 02:05 PM

There are at the moment a number of exaggerated, even breathless comparisons between President Obama's Benghazi/IRS/Associated Press controversies and President Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1973....
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From the Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

Frack to the Future

By: Michael Warren

Williston, N.D.
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Downsize Ike

By: Andrew Ferguson

The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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Barnes On Obama's Poll Numbers: 'Americans Want Leadership and They're Not Getting It'

By: TWS Podcast

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on President Obama's falling polling numbers.
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