PRUDEN: The long season of rage ahead
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Barack Obama is laying out a revolutionary agenda for his second term, and he's calling up his heaviest artillery to enforce the transformative presidency delayed in the first. The...
View ArticleOfficial says Interior Secretary Salazar is leaving Obama's Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) — An administration official says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the Obama administration in March.Salazar has run the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama's...
View ArticleObama’s second inauguration brings a yawning gap in business
In Washington, even Democrats may find themselves wishing this weekend that they had voted for Mitt Romney — considering the economic boost that comes from a fresh presidential inauguration compared...
View ArticleHURT: Gun edicts put personal liberty under fire
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Where is the liberal outrage? Where is the liberal suspicion about powerful, unchecked governments? Where is the liberal unflinching devotion to individual liberty?We have a president...
View ArticleWhite House raises bar for flooded website
The constitutional right to petition the government for a redress of citizens' grievances, from deporting CNN anchor Piers Morgan to building a U.S. Death Star to seceding from the Union, just got a...
View ArticleKREUTZER: Grimm's carbon tax
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Maybe the wolf should have skipped the granny disguise and just scarfed down Little Red Riding Hood in the woods. It couldn't have worked out any worse for him. That appears to be the...
View ArticleInside Politics: CEO changes remark on Obama to 'fascism'
The CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc. compared President Obama's health care law to "fascism" in a radio interview Wednesday, a turnabout from earlier comments in which he compared the signature reforms...
View ArticleViewed as out of touch, GOP gathers forces to plot rebirth
As House Republicans head to Williamsburg, Va., to talk strategy at their annual retreat, a top Democratic pollster warned Wednesday that voters think the GOP has fallen outside the mainstream on...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Cunning Fox
As the inauguration approaches, some chefs are getting generous with their secrets. Behold, it's Riderwood vegetable crab soup, to be served at an inaugural gala hosted by the Delaware, Maryland and...
View ArticleAlleged White House shooter: statements coerced
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a man charged with trying to assassinate President Obama by shooting at the White House are trying to get his statements to authorities thrown out.Lawyers for Oscar Ramiro...
View ArticleCharities worry that new tax law will reduce donations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Charities and nonprofit organizations are worried that new limits on tax deductions for high earners will hurt donations just as charitable giving is starting to rebound from the...
View ArticleObama: Shootings violate U.S. freedoms
In proposing sweeping gun regulations Wednesday, President Obama said there are limits to gun owners' constitutional rights when the health and safety of the public are threatened."I believe the Second...
View ArticleMcCain chides Egypt's Morsi over remarks on Jews
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he has expressed strong disapproval to Egypt's Islamist president about his past comments about Jews. Despite an uproar in Washington over the remarks,...
View ArticleCritics of violent films, video games note the call for study, not controls
President Obama's plans to curb gun violence focus heavily on firearm restrictions and on mental health, but video games and movies — two cultural issues that many Americans blame for violence — got...
View ArticleObama: U.S. will be 'judged' on guns
President Obama set up the first major fight of his second term on Wednesday as he vowed to directly confront gun rights supporters and called on average Americans to back him in his bid to limit...
View ArticleObama using gun issue to advance health law
President Obama is using the national debate over gun violence to push for further action on his health care law, including insisting on the kind of mental health coverage states must provide under...
View ArticleTop Senate Democrat warns against police use of drones
The senior Democrat in the Senate on Wednesday called for scrapping mandatory minimum sentences at both the federal and state levels and said he wants Congress to take a critical look at the way police...
View ArticleInterior's Salazar helps empty Obama's Cabinet
Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar's resignation doesn't just leave another open spot in President Obama's Cabinet.The departure of the former senator from Colorado could have far-reaching effects...
View ArticleSheriffs, state lawmakers push back on gun control
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — From Oregon to Mississippi, President Obama's proposed ban on new assault weapons and large-capacity magazines struck a nerve among rural lawmen and lawmakers, many of whom...
View ArticleBenghazi, Kerry confirmation hearings set for next week
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee faces a busy week ahead, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton slated to testify Wednesday about the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in...
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