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Alonzo Hersford Cushing was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge, for which he earned the Medal of Honor 147 years after his death.

TIMELESS: Medal of Honor approved for Civil War and Vietnam veterans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Official White House photo of President Obama shooting a shotgun on Aug. 4, 2012.

Gun sales hit new record, ammo boom to follow

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press)

Sen. Ron Johnson to sue over Obamacare’s special treatment for lawmakers, staffers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama greets people on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One at Honolulu Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Honolulu, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, as he travels back to Washington after their annual family vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In midst of The Big Freeze, Obama to exert presidential powers on ‘global warming’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Senate is nearing a potential showdown on curbing the power that the Republican minority has to block President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominations, as Democrats edge toward muscling a rewrite of filibuster rules through the chamber. Reid was expected to force a vote as soon as Thursday on requiring only 51 votes to end filibusters, or delaying tactics, against nominees for high-level judgeships and agency officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: Doing nothing constructively

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. urging him to back off his attempt to restore the so-called "assault weapons" ban of 1994. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

KEENE: Rejoining the fight for conservatism

By David Keene

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, speaks to the media after the Democrat majority in the Senate pushed through a major rules change, one that curbs the power of the Republican minority to block President Barack Obama's nominations for high-level judgeships and cabinet and agency officials, on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harry Reid: Blame Republicans if 2014 is as bad as 2013 in Congress

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama leaves the podium after speaking about the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House issues two new executive actions to keep guns from the mentally ill

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez announces a civil rights unit to be based in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday. The unit will be responsible for prosecutions and lawsuits. (Associated Press)

Labor Secy. Perez pushes for jobless benefits without offsets

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Mother Patricia Mary walks in the chapel at the Mullen Home for the Aged, run by Little Sisters of the Poor, in Denver, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **

LAMBRO: Aborting a key Obamacare rule

By Donald Lambro

"[T]he NRA and their acolytes underestimate our residents if they think this city will tolerate autocratic rule from Congress," said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District Democrat, in response to a bill that would do away with D.C.'s ban on semiautomatic rifles and gut other gun restrictions. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

D.C. gun-control debate holds national clues

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's non-voting member of Congress (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

D.C.’s gun debates a preview of national fights

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

Supreme Court Justice Roberts to Congress: Remember Judiciary in appropriations talks

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

"The people are hurting. They look to Washington for help. Nothing is happening," Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, wrote in a blog on Huffington Post.

Unhappiness with tea party provides opportunity for liberals

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hoping for congressional spine in 2014

By our readers

Marine honor guards carry the casket and remains of Marine PFC James Jacques at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

TRACCI: Why is Benghazi too crucial to forget?

By Robert N. Tracci

2014 begins with $54 billion in tax hikes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Trader F. Hill Creekmore works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Stocks surged after the Federal Reserve decided the U.S. economy was strong enough for it to reduce its stimulus efforts. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

LAMBRO: Will voter anger give GOP a huge advantage in the midterms?

By Donald Lambro

FILE - Beginning with his State of the Union Address on Jan. 28, expect to hear President Obama talk a lot about populist proposals such as raising the minimum wage. While such proposals likely have no chance to become law in 2014, their promotion is aimed at presenting stark contrasts between Democrats and Republicans heading into midterm elections. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File-Pool)

Obama’s wish list likely to stall in election year

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama raises his glass for a toast by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during a luncheon at the United Nations, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

2013 ‘one of the worst’ years in U.S. history

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times