Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting tea party groups.

David Limbaugh

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

A sagacious Bible scholar told me how important it was for the Israelites to look back and remember what God had done for them in the past because it gave them the strength to persevere through difficult times. Sometimes we need to look back, too, and remember what we have to be grateful for...

Mona Charen

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

If you Google "George W. Bush shredding the constitution," you will get many millions of hits. The New York Times railed, "Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism." President Bush attempted to listen in on the...

Kelly Jane Torrance

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Alan, the man-child who made a star of actor Zach Galifianakis, succinctly summarizes "The Hangover" franchise in a conversation with Mr. Chow: "When we get together, bad things happen and people get hurt." But Mr. Chow (played by Ken Jeong) responds with a rejoinder that's just as true:...

Examiner Editorial

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

When Douglas Shulman was asked Wednesday by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., for some of the "many reasons" he might visit the White House 118 times during his tenure at the IRS, the tax agency's former commissioner displayed a profound disrespect for Congress by hastily replying, "the Easter Egg...

Emily Cary

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Actor Shuler Hensley, who plays the Critic in "The Guardsman" in its run at the Eisenhower Theater for the next month, is one of those rare actors who is never idle. He arrives at the Kennedy Center fresh from a successful Off-Broadway run in "The Whale," for which he won the Lucille Lortel...

Shikha Dalmia

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama is dealing with revelations about the Justice Department's spying on journalists and other scandals by changing the subject. In a major national security address Thursday, he announced the phaseout of the Guantanamo prison facility and the CIA's oversight of the drone program....

Ron Arnold

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Good news is no news, so the cynics say, especially with news cycles hammering President Obama's scandal headaches from migraines into political skull fractures. But this week something came out of the federal bureaucracy so filled with human decency that it deserves some kind of a headline --...

Kelly Jane Torrance

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Superman and Shakespeare get modern updates; Will Smith and son go into the future; and Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and too many other actors to name face the apocalypse or its aftermath. Yes, it's that time of year again. Summer brings with it rising mercury and hemlines, beach weekends and...

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama:'Homegrown' terrorist plots difficult to combat because of civil liberties' concerns.