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ORIENT: Tucson reveals poisonous media milieu
By Dr. Jane M. Orient - The Washington Times
Tucsonans are grieved by the loss of family, friends and neighbors and are shaken by the reminder of mortality. Standing in line to greet their congresswoman, or just going to the grocery store, they could be killed by a malcontent. They are not immune from the violence that is rampant in the world, bringing sudden death from bombs, incendiary devices, missiles, gunfire or other means. Published 7:12 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
TYRRELL: Liberalism's death knell keeps tolling
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times
The evidence mounts that liberalism is dead. The liberal wizards, working their wonders at the New York Times and its clearinghouses in the major networks, cannot even dupe the American people with an absurd conspiracy theory anymore. In Dallas back in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, a pious communist awash in the Marxist-Leninist bilge, shot President John F. Kennedy. In no time, the liberals had the nation focused on the "dangerous right-wing atmosphere" supposedly pervading Dallas. Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Sister who embraced Stalinism
By Martin Rubin - The Washington Times
In the many volumes of what might be termed Mitfordology - studies of that endlessly fascinating and appalling clan - next-to-last daughter Jessica often appears as a salutary counterpoint to her Nazi and fascist siblings. But in the account of her life in this adulatory biography, what is most striking is not what sets her apart from all those other Mitfords, but rather her horrible similarity to them. Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
FIELDS: Changing how we think
By Suzanne Fields - The Washington Times
We mourn, we weep, we wonder why. How could such things happen? Smart phones and online libraries constantly feed us information, but we don't get any wiser. We blame others for what goes wrong and for what we don't fully understand. Pundits argue and provoke, pretending to seek wisdom from the dialectic, but they're merely in love with the sound of their own voices. Jeremiahs predict the worst, Pollyannas foresee a rosy future and the ostrich buries his head in the sand (where insights as wise as any other may lurk). Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
BERG: Who should lead the GOP?
By Dave Berg - The Washington Times
The 168 members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will be voting tomorrow to elect a new chairman. Most Republicans don't even know about this election, but its importance cannot be overstated. The outcome will have much to do with whether a Republican president is elected in 2012. Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
MELADY: Michael S. Steele for RNC chairman
By Thomas P. Melady - The Washington Times
Tomorrow, Republicans through their state chairmen and committeemen will elect the chairman of the Republican National Committee. There is special importance to the election as this chairman will lead the party in the national presidential elections of November 2012. Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
CAMPBELL: The liberal tax
By Rep. John Campbell - The Washington Times
During the protracted debate over the extension of the "Bush tax cuts," much of the angst of President Obama and his fellow Democrats has been centered around increasing taxes on "the rich." "Rich," for purposes of this debate, has been defined by the president as individuals making more than $200,000 per year and families earning more than $250,000. Published 7:12 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
MINTON: The online poker players next door
By Michelle Minton - The Washington Times
Ask any professional poker player after a losing night what happened, and very rarely will he attribute the outcome to bad luck. There is an element of chance involved - for example, in the cards one is dealt - but long-term success lies, literally, in each player's hands. Published 7:12 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
GAFFNEY: The provocative danger of weakness
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times
Two recent episodes offer an insight into a world in which the United States deliberately adopts a policy of pursuing international peace despite weakness, rather than practice what Ronald Reagan called "peace through strength." Published 6:18 p.m. January 12, 2011 - Comments
SCHIFF: Stuart Rothenberg and the arrogance of honesty
By Peter D. Schiff - The Washington Times
In the early fall of 2009, just before I announced my candidacy for the U.S. Senate, I was introduced to a number of Washington-based political analysts and journalists. Among the group was Stuart Rothenberg, writer of the Rothenberg Political Report, a classic "inside the Beltway" publication targeted at those whose lives and livelihoods revolve around national politics. His acerbic comments regarding my candidacy in the months that followed reveal the enormous chasm that separates the real world from Washington. Published 6:07 p.m. January 11, 2011 - Comments
LYONS: China's imperialism on full display
By Adm. James A. Lyons - The Washington Times
To foster its imperialistic goals, China for the past two decades has funded an unprecedented military expansion program. With no known threat to its homeland, that should leave no doubt that the Chinese plan to use their modernized People's Liberation Army (PLA) to further their expansionist objectives by intimidation or outright aggression. Their illegal claim to essentially the entire South China Sea, which they have declared a "core interest," is a case in point. Their unauthorized building of facilities on the Philippines' Mischief Reef in 1995 and their forced confrontation with Japan over disputed islands in 2010 only serve to illustrate what China is prepared to do in the future. Published 6:07 p.m. January 11, 2011 - Comments
NUGENT: Be prepared for evil
By Ted Nugent - The Washington Times
There is evil among us. Always has been, always will be. As I write this, in the past four days, a high school assistant principal in Omaha was shot and killed and the principal wounded. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and 19 other Americans were gunned down at a constituent meeting being held at grocery store in Tucson. Published 6:13 p.m. January 11, 2011 - Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Fumbles, yes, but still a threat
By Joshua Sinai - The Washington Times
Peter L. Bergen was one of the first Western investigative journalists to cover Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda in the late 1990s, and then he published two best-selling books and numerous articles about what became the world's most dangerous terrorist organization. Published 6:13 p.m. January 11, 2011 - Comments
LEHMANN & APPLETON: Tension grows with China
By Jean-Pierre Lehmann and Arthur Appleton - The Washington Times
When President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet in Washington on Jan. 19, they should recognize that generally when a new big power rises, war ensues. Published 6:07 p.m. January 11, 2011 - Comments
HANSON: Political vultures
By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times
Very few Americans are fans of both "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf," as 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, the purported Tucson killer, apparently was. Fewer still post on the Internet fears about "brainwashing," "mind control" and "conscience dreaming"; have long records of public disruption and aberrant behavior; were expelled from community college; or were rejected summarily for military service. Published 5:55 p.m. January 10, 2011 - Comments
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