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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally ahead of Maharashtra state assembly elections in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

EDITORIAL: India’s Modi shows way on cutting government

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (Associated Press)

Female lawmakers are more effective, study says

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration on the systemic protections for Government growth by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

BOAZ: In big government, breaking up is always hard to do

By David Boaz

In this June 7, 2014, file photo, the entrance to Camp 5 and Camp 6 at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler on Friday ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner strike being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed. (AP Photo/Ben Fox, File )

GOP slams report of Obama mulling move of Gitmo detainees to U.S.

By Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Dwight Eisenhower stands with Capt. John A. Maurer, skipper of the cruiser St. Paul, as the warship moves along the Southern tip of Formosa during trip from Manila. (AP Photo, file)

BRUCE FEIN: Squinting at the Vietnam War

By Bruce Fein

Harry Browne's is a fine dining restaurant in Annapolis, Md. Chef Jacqueline Gutierrez and pastry chef Louise Nielsen sit Jan. 2, 2009, in the wine cellar with some of the restaurant's signature dishes — red Florida grouper with cilantro saffron risotto, black bean soubis, served with a tomato avocado fresco and fried plantains, with chocolate peanut butter pie with coffee and cream mousse for dessert. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: A federal fishing expedition, spawned by Sarbanes-Oxley

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., cheers during the third inning of Game 1 of baseball's NL Division Series between the Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, at Nationals Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats fearing election burn turn on Nancy Pelosi in campaign ads

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ariel Jalali, CEO of Sensay, offers President Barack Obama a job, after he leaves office, during a Q&A session at Cross Campus, a shared office complex in Santa Monica, Calif. on Thurdsay, Oct. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Jay L. Clendenin) NO FORNS; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER OUT; LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS OUT; INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT: LOS ANGELES TIMES, JAY L. CLENDENIN

Obama blames GOP for stagnating wages

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate has abandoned a sweeping Senate bill he helped write. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Republicans warn against taxpayer bailout for health insurers

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde meets with reporters at IMF headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. In a new economic forecast prepared for the meetings, the IMF downgraded its growth outlook for this year because of disappointing growth in Europe, which is threatening to topple into another recession, and also unexpected weakness in Japan, China and Brazil. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IMF managing director says she’ll belly dance for Congress to bring on banking reforms

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Turkish soldiers on a tank and an armoured vehicle hold their positions on a hilltop in the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking smoke rising from a strike in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Americans want Congress back before elections to vote on Iraq, Syria: poll

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Elizabeth Warren (Associated Press)

Elizabeth Warren: Congress played a role in Ebola crisis

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Jefferson in 1801 delivered his State of the Union message in writing, worried that a personal appearance before Congress would too closely resemble the British monarch's practice of addressing each new Parliament with a list of policy mandates. (AP Photo/FILE)

FEIN: Downsizing the presidency

By Bruce Fein

President Obama stands with former President George W. Bush at the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas on April 25, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

NAPOLITANO: Parallel reconstruction, an edifice of lies at NSA and DOJ

By Andrew P. Napolitano

China's finance minister Zhu Guangyao said Congress should move quickly to approve reforms giving China and other emerging economies greater input in the International Monetary Fund to show the U.S. is intent on preserving its leading role in governing the world's economy. (Associated Press)

China presses Congress for action on stalled IMF reforms

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks off Marine One after arriving for a fundraiser, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Greenwich, Conn. Obama is traveling to New York and Connecticut for Democratic fundraisers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama meets with rich Democratic donors, warns about ‘interests of billionaires’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The Chicago Tribune was certain Thomas E. Dewey had beaten incumbent Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election. (Photo: Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The do-nothing Congress: Who’s really at fault?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Rep. Luis Gutierrez

Immigration activists court Luis Gutierrez for presidential bid

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Department of Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin, left, with Retired Medical Director of the Diamond Community-Based Outpatient Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration Samuel Foote, holds documents as he testifies during a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing on "Scheduling Manipulation and Veteran Deaths in Phoenix: Examination of the OIG's Final Report" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Report clearing VA in veteran deaths has IG Richard Griffin on hot seat

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times