Obama, Vladimir Putin agree to disagree on Syria
By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/17/13 05:15 PM
After House blocks Gitmo closure, Obama taps envoy
By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
Is Obama losing young voters?
By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:50 PM
CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on the budget comes out tomorrow
By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/17/13 07:10 PM
Janet Yellen's ascendancy shows durability of Ben Bernanke's program
By JOSEPH LAWLER | 06/16/13 04:25 PM
CBO: Debt limit deadline won’t hit until Oct. or Nov.
By PHILIP KLEIN | 06/11/13 04:10 PM
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Only you can prevent terrorists from starting forest fires
06/17/13 06:40 PM
Examiner Editorial: Obama puts up dukes and blunders into Syria
06/17/13 10:35 AM
Examiner Editorial: Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
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Lawmakers seek credit monitoring for veterans
06/14/13 03:11 PM
UPDATED! Chinese, other nations hacked VA computers, officials can't account for everything stolen
By MARK FLATTEN | 06/04/13 02:40 PM
Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny
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By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 06:55 PM
Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a plan to save the nation's electric grid...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 05:20 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who stumbled out of the GOP presidential primary gates in 2012, appears poised for a revival in the upcoming 2016 primaries, according to key congressional aides and members...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
There they go again, members of the mainstream media shrugging off the scandals swirling around President Obama.
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CBS News Political Director John...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 08:10 AM
A new rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/16/13 07:45 PM
Anti-abortion female lawmakers and activists, long shouted down by pro-abortion Democrats, are stepping up their efforts to bring their "farm team" of state politicians to Washington and challenge...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/15/13 06:50 AM
Just six months after he cut a fiscal cliff deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Joe Biden declared Friday night that the GOP has no adult leadership and he said it is...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/14/13 02:55 PM
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton says it's time for a woman in the Oval Office, music to her mom Hillary Clinton's ears.
In a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner"...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/14/13 01:45 PM
By a majority of three to one, Americans oppose President Obama's plan to get involved in the Syrian civil war, a blow to the administration and the latest evidence of the nation's war fatigue....
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By Paul Bedard | 06/14/13 11:25 AM
The president's abrupt decision to arm Syrian rebels is a huge mistake, one driven by emotion and propaganda not they kind of strategic White House plan that has marked past successful...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/14/13 10:30 AM
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that the internet tapping scandal has stalled the president's agenda and hit his approval ratings.
"Summer is here and it is...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/14/13 06:25 AM
Tired of waiting for President Obama to make good on his inaugural promise to tackle global warming, eco-activist Robert Redford has called on the public to press the president to act, questioning...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/13/13 01:20 PM
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday slammed the administration's funding and arming of Israel's foes, including Egypt, and said it is likely that if Muslim nations attack Israel as...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/13/13 11:25 AM
With the Reagan presidency slowly being squeezed out of grade school history classes by more topical subjects, fans of the Gipper are pushing the country to remember the 40th president for his...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/13/13 10:20 AM
The latest investigative video from the anti-abortion group Live Action unveiled Thursday shows an Albuquerque, New Mexico abortion doctor comparing the injection used to kill a fetus to a flu...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/13/13 10:10 AM
That was fast--but not unexpected. The media frenzy over the IRS scandal, which dominated the Big Three networks for two weeks, has practically disappeared from the news, according to a new...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/12/13 03:20 PM
He hid it well as president, but as a retired chief executive looking for any way to get a laugh or brighten somebody's day, George H.W. Bush has revealed his secret craving: crazy-colored socks....
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By Paul Bedard | 06/12/13 03:10 PM
Roger Ailes has won a $250,000 Bradley Foundation Prize for creating Fox News Channel, deemed by the group to be a thoroughly American institution.
Ailes and three others, including former...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/12/13 02:10 PM
Two-term Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has pulled off a surprise for Washington-based Tea Party groups eagerly looking for a more conservative alternative to make a primary challenge in 2014:...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/12/13 01:15 PM
President Obama took a bachelor's road trip to Massachusetts Wednesday to help Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Edward Markey, taking advantage of being away from his fit wife to grab a...
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By Paul Bedard | 06/12/13 12:45 PM
The White House on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for immigration reform with a video of West Wing staffers talking about their immigrant roots, but it was immediately slammed by YouTube...
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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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THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on President Obama's falling polling numbers.
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