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By CAL THOMAS | 06/19/13 05:50 PM
After 12 years of fighting, the Taliban in Afghanistan have announced they are ready to talk peace with the United States. The Taliban opened a political office in Qatar. The talks will take place there, but without the...
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| 06/19/13 06:06 AM
Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and vigorously defended collection of telephonic metadata. Alexander assured the committee that,...
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By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/18/13 07:00 PM
Despite his many classical liberal positions, some argue he would have embraced an active federal government were he alive today. "Liberty," Frederick Douglass once declared, "is not a device or an experiment, but a law...
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By SEAN HIGGINS | 06/18/13 07:20 PM
MEMO:
Date: June 13, 2013, 5:45 pm
To: VJarrett@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov
From: POTUS@EOP.WhiteHouse.gov
Subject: Proposed draft of nat'l security address
Valerie, let me know what you think. I need to get this off of...
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By MONA CHAREN | 06/17/13 07:55 PM
In the weeks before the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the country trembled with anticipation. No such eagerness is evident now -- yet the court is again poised to rattle our world. The case of...
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By CAL THOMAS | 06/17/13 06:35 PM
Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama's decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels.
The Washington Post headlined an editorial: "No time for...
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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...
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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 conservatives -- a black Democrat in...
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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...
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By CONN CARROLL | 06/16/13 06:20 PM
Disagreements happen all the time in Congress. It is a natural part of any democracy. But what doesn't happen all the time is a sitting senator essentially calling a witness a liar.
And that is exactly what Sen. Sheldon...
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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 of the 2012-2013 season:...
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By CAL THOMAS | 06/14/13 02:40 PM
The Bradley Foundation, a private, independent grant-making organization based in Milwaukee, recently handed out its annual Bradley Prize to four men who have, in the words of the organization's mission statement,...
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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. He has transformed the...
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By LINDA CHAVEZ | 06/13/13 07:50 PM
Like most people who live in democratic countries, Americans believe elections matter. But elections alone don't define democracy. Elections are simply the mechanism by which free people choose the leaders who will uphold...
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By MICHELLE MALKIN | 06/13/13 07:45 PM
We all know now what the vengeful Obama IRS has been doing to conservative nonprofits the past four years: strangling them in the crib. But do you know how much pampering and largesse far-left welfare-state charities have...
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By DAVID LIMBAUGH | 06/13/13 07:35 PM
The Obama administration's handling of its multiple scandals paints a picture of those who believe they are above the law. There's a pattern of arrogance, dismissiveness, denial, scapegoating, stonewalling, lying, false...
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By MONA CHAREN | 06/13/13 07:35 PM
The New York Times is pleased with Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 438-page, $20 billion plan to protect New York from the effects of future hurricanes. It notes benignly that the cost is probably an underestimate but agrees...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/13/13 06:45 PM
Great cries of shock and disillusionment are echoing across many precincts of President Obama's political base, particularly among academics, civil libertarians, nonprofit activists and media celebrities. The howls of...
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By DAVID HARSANYI | 06/13/13 05:40 PM
There are many idealistic progressives who've remained opposed to the National Security Agency's data mining programs regardless of who is in the White House. (We can't surrender our freedom for safety, you know!) It's...
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By RON ARNOLD | 06/13/13 05:15 PM
He dropped out of nowhere and landed with a crash in the director's seat of the Office of Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Matthew S. Tejada, 33, Texas-born Latino, PhD (History, Oxford...
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By BRANDON FULLER AND SEAN RUST | 06/13/13 04:55 PM
Adapted from City Journal, Spring 2013
"We've lost our way, and we need to go back to fundamentals and say we're the place that welcomes everyone," said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder last March as the immigration debate in...
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By VERONIQUE DE RUGY | 06/13/13 04:45 PM
Each year, the board of trustees for Social Security and Medicare release reports highlighting the financial outlook and solvency for these massive entitlement programs.
"We are looking at over $30 trillion in total...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/13/13 04:35 PM
Coverage of local news, a major focus of The Washington Examiner since it first began publication eight years ago, ends today. As Bob Hope used to sing, "Thanks for the memories." We've had a good run. The Washington...
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| 06/13/13 04:20 PM
Immigrants now come to U.S. for the benefits
Re: "Future immigration could lower current immigrants' wages," June 12
As the Obama administration focuses on immigration to deflect from other controversies surrounding...
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By R. EMMETT TYRRELL | 06/12/13 07:35 PM
WASHINGTON -- I depart America for two blissful weeks in Italy and return to find that my country has been transformed, rather rudely, into a totalitarian state on the order of Iran, possibly even North Korea. My...
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By LARRY ELDER | 06/12/13 07:35 PM
The scandals surrounding the Obama administration come down to one common theme -- that the ever-growing size and scope of our federal government gives it enormous power over virtually every aspect of our lives, power...
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By STEVE CHAPMAN | 06/12/13 07:35 PM
"And so the charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air. Built on misrepresentation. Supported by unfounded fear. Held aloft by hysteria. On this and every other tool provided in the...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/12/13 06:20 PM
Coming on the heels of revelations that the IRS spent $50 million on more than 200 employee conferences, it may be inconsequential to find out about $20,000 for a dental conference, $30,000 for a meeting in New Jersey and...
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By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/12/13 04:35 PM
Ohio Department of Insurance officials announced last week that average premiums in the Buckeye state would soar 88 percent once President Obama's health care law kicks in. The news added fuel to an already raging debate...
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By CAL THOMAS | 06/12/13 03:30 PM
Ever since President Clinton "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," whatever remains of standards seems to have fallen even lower among people who hold offices and positions once thought to...
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By GREGORY KANE | 06/12/13 02:15 PM
Fifty years ago this week, Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss.
At the time of his demise, Evers was Mississippi's NAACP field secretary. In fact, it was because he was Mississippi's NAACP field secretary...
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By NOEMIE EMERY | 06/12/13 08:05 AM
As drowning men clutch at straws, presidents in trouble often cling to Harry Truman's 1948 upset re-election for hope. But President Obama may be looking to President Clinton's 1998 midterm for assurance that all will be...
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By MICHELLE MALKIN | 06/11/13 06:05 PM
Welcome to Opposite World again. As the U.S. Senate geared up yesterday for the Gang of Eight illegal alien amnesty bill debate, President Obama goaded Capitol Hill to pass what he called "smarter enforcement, a pathway...
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By WALTER WILLIAMS | 06/11/13 06:00 PM
Last week a federal judge ordered Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the adult lung transplant list. That...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/11/13 05:30 PM
Big Government proponents, including both Democrats and Republicans, often justify their proposals as essential to encourage technological innovation and economic growth. Far from improving the economy, however,...
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| 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...
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By SEAN HIGGINS | 06/11/13 04:15 PM
In less than three years, four historically union-friendly Midwestern states have adopted laws that threaten to speed the decline of union membership. That has Big Labor's lawyers scouring their libraries for something --...
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| 06/11/13 04:05 PM
Today's editorial cartoon is by Nate Beeler of Cagle Cartoons.
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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 the academy will be...
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By DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH | 06/11/13 02:20 PM
Most people show up at work to do a job, but 250 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are paid full-time not to work for the taxpayer. They are on "official time" and they work for their unions.
Sens. Tom...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/10/13 07:15 PM
Among President Obama's first statements concerning the National Security Agency's mining of metadata from billions of private telephone calls, emails and website visits was this curious observation: "If people can't...
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By THOMAS SOWELL | 06/10/13 07:05 PM
One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture.
One of my most vivid memories of the late...
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By MONA CHAREN | 06/10/13 07:00 PM
It would be nice to write a column in praise of President Obama for his vigorous conduct of the war on terror -- to praise his willingness to look for "dots" to connect amid all the electronic noise of the communications...
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By THOMAS SOWELL | 06/10/13 06:55 PM
The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: "Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults."
In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed...
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By GENE HEALY | 06/10/13 04:15 PM
As a Senate candidate in 2003, Barack Obama called the PATRIOT Act "shoddy and dangerous." Once safely in power, Obama started demonstrating his remarkable capacity for "growing in office" -- expanding federal powers...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/10/13 04:10 PM
Why do the world's oldest people live in Maryland?
Even though modern medicine has greatly increased human longevity, it's still unusual to make it well past the century mark. It was news when Guinness World Records...
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By CAL THOMAS | 06/10/13 03:10 PM
Without the slightest hint of irony, President Obama said last week, "if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by...
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By GREGORY KANE | 06/09/13 05:15 PM
Courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union, we now know that there's a racial disparity in marijuana arrests.
The ACLU released the results of its study last week. According to U.S. News & World Report, "the...
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By HUGH HEWITT | 06/09/13 04:55 PM
"A fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas," Charles Krauthammer told me on air in an interview in late April.
"We know that fences work," he continued. "If the president...
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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 energy security? Consumers...
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