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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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
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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 | 05/30/13 04:35 PM
The Democratic Party on Thursday slapped retiring Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann -- barking in a memo "don't let the door hit you on the way out" -- and then used her decision not to seek re-election to raise money. Communications Director Brad Woodhouse's fundraising letter suggested that...
By Paul Bedard | 05/30/13 04:05 PM
The National Rifle Association is condemning Washington, D.C.'s efforts to require gun owners to buy liability insurance, suggesting it's a racist "poll tax" on the poor. "The greatest impact," said the NRA in reaction to the District's demand for $250,000 or more in liability insurance before...
By Paul Bedard | 05/30/13 02:20 PM
As if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn't have enough trouble soothing conservative critics who don't like his praise for President Obama's Hurricane Sandy recovery help, the White House Thursday posted a "Picture of the Day" featuring the smiling duo in a brotherly handshake from Obama's...
By Paul Bedard | 05/30/13 09:55 AM
Super-retailer Walmart has been slapped with $110 million in environmental fines after pleading guilty to improperly dumping pesticides--all of it returned by customers--into public sewers and landfills, creating a toxic nightmare. The Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Section told...
By Paul Bedard | 05/29/13 03:40 PM
First lady Michelle Obama was gunning for political money in Boston on Wednesday, but it was her own "guns" and fitness routine that muscled their way into the fundraising event for Massachusetts Senate candidate Rep. Ed Markey. Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off the event by cheering the first...
By Paul Bedard | 05/29/13 10:25 AM
In a broad slap at the the uncompromising stands of conservative Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee, the liberal Brookings Institution's top political scholar charged this week that the Tea Party trio are leading the Republican Party to disaster and minority status. Thomas Mann said that...
By Paul Bedard | 05/29/13 09:55 AM
Male immigrants, including illegals, have a much lower unemployment rate than men born in the United States, according to a new federal analysis of the traits of U.S. and foreign born workers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the unemployment rate for American-born men is 8.4...
By Paul Bedard | 05/29/13 09:15 AM
He was booted from office in a three-way contest won by Bill Clinton in 1992, but former President George H.W. Bush is headed for "near-great" status based on his foreign policy successes, according to a presidential scholar who runs the LBJ library. "You're seeing George H.W. Bush's...
By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 05:50 PM
Federal food inspectors at many of the nation's swine slaughterhouses fail to do their job and let repeat offenders continue to produce potentially contaminated meat without punishment, raising a "higher risk of providing pork for human consumption that should not enter the food supply,"...
By Paul Bedard | 05/28/13 05:10 PM
Former Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., credited with pushing through major bipartisan legislation during his 36-year career, is urging an end to the limitless taxpayer-funded trips home for House and Senate members, calling it a key step in repairing politically divided Washington. "You got elected...
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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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