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Illustration on Democrat attacks on the First Amendment by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CRUZ: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Democrats

By Ted Cruz

RFK Memorial Stadium is visible behind the U.S. Capitol from the 500-foot level of the Washington Monument in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2014, as it re-opens. The monument, which sustained damage from an earthquake in August 2011, reopened to the public today. (AP Photo)

Fewer moderates running for Congress means a more polarized Capitol Hill

By Chloe Johnson - The Washington Times

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., reads the restrictions for visitors to immigration centers during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Top Obama administration officials told senators they're struggling to keep up with the surge of immigrants at the Southern border. McCain was upset that the restrictions prevented members of Congress from meeting with detainees or bringing in cell phones. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John McCain lambastes DHS for border-rules memo

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador are stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border in Granjeno, Texas. (Associated Press)

On border quagmire, Obama passes the buck to Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer speaks at a news conference at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Brewer said Wednesday, March 12, 2014 that she won't seek a third term in office. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal of a blocked provision of Arizona's 2010 immigration enforcement law, dealing another blow to Gov. Jan Brewer in her effort to defend the law. The court declined to review the ruling that barred police from arresting people who harbor those living in the United States illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Jan Brewer blasts ‘imperial’ Obama for failing to secure border

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A demonstrator holds up a signs outside the White House in Washington, Monday, July 7, 2014, following a news conference of immigrant families and children's advocates responding to the President Barack Obama's response to the crisis of unaccompanied children and families illegally entering the US. A top Obama administration official says no one, not even children trying to escape violent countries, can illegally enter the United States without eventually facing deportation proceedings. But Homeland Security Sec Jeh Johnson basically acknowledged Sunday that such proceedings might be long delayed, and he said that coping with floods of unaccompanied minors crossing the border is a legal and humanitarian dilemma for the US. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama requests $3.7 billion to fight surge of illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 29, 2014 file photo shows Sarah Palin speaking in New Orleans, La. In an interview, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed that shortly after Palin was nominated as the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, the Obama campaign proposed that Clinton go on the attack against her. Clinton said she refused. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

Sarah Palin calls for Obama impeachment

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration on closing the IRS by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

UHLER & FERRERA: Putting Congress in control of tax policy again

By Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara

** FILE ** In this Jan. 6, 2014, file photo, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined by attorneys Paul D. Clement, far left, and Rick Esenberg, second from left, announces that he has filed a lawsuit to block the federal government from helping to pay for health care coverage for members of Congress and their staffs during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge will hear arguments this week on whether to toss a U.S. senator's lawsuit challenging rules that force congressional members and their staffs to obtain government-subsidized health insurance through small business exchanges. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Judge hears arguments in Sen. Ron Johnson’s Obamacare lawsuit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, makes a statement about immigration reform on June 30, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Group challenges Obama administration’s executive authority on Obamacare

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, would keep the current plan largely intact, although it would increase the share of insured losses paid for by private insurance and direct the government to study the effects of premiums collected through the program. . (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act renewal a bipartisan affair

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The Capitol is seen from the Russell Senate Office Building. While crises mount abroad and at home, some candidates this year are betting that a big issue for voters will be free gym use and subsidized haircuts on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congressional perks like free gym, haircuts and cars prove a tempting target for candidates

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

FEDEWA: Bureaucracy: The fourth branch of government

By Lawrence J. Fedewa

Declaration of Independence Moving Truck Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DiBACCO: The Declaration on the move

By Thomas V. DiBacco

Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine is asking what the Obama administration has to hide after he was denied access Monday to a Health and Human Services facility at Fort Sill that is currently housing up to 1,200 illegal immigrant children. (Jim Bridenstine's Office)

Lawmaker denied entry to immigrant detention site: ‘What are they trying to hide?’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A sign warns against trespassing onto the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Three nuclear protesters, including an octogenarian nun, are scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, for their convictions for breaking into the facility and painting slogans on the outside wall of its uranium processing plant. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

Mushroom cloud of inaction: Nuclear agency slow to fix security lapses

By Chloe Johnson - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stand up against Obama’s abuses of power

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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Military pensions could become targets in sex assault convictions

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama walks across the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama promotes fixing bridges, highways

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press