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Tents and droves of people cover the Mall at last year's National Book Festival. Christopher Buckley, one of this year's featured authors, describes the event as "sort of a cross between a state fair and a Walter Isaacson Aspen Ideas festival, only without the aspens and bears."

Book festival brings a ‘weird, wonderful energy’ to Mall

By Kelly Jane Torrance - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Under heavy guard: The Washington Navy Yard was closed to all but essential personnel on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, the day after a gunman launched an attack that hit office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the military installation. (Associated Press)

Democratic reps call for hearing on Navy Yard shooting

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

**FILE** Speaker of the House John Boehner, Ohio Republican, and GOP leaders talk to reporters following a Republican strategy session at the Capitol on Sept. 10, 2013. (Associated Press)

Boehner bashes Obama in mocking video; says Obama will deal with Putin, not GOP

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Atheists launch PAC backing nonreligious candidates

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Adm. Mike Mullen. (Associated Press)

Benghazi investigators gave Hillary Clinton heads-up on findings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama pauses as he speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. Before speaking about the economy, Mr. Obama spoke on the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, mourning what he called "yet another mass shooting" that he said took the life of American patriots. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama defends partisan speech after Navy Yard shooting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The circular firing squad

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

MURCHISON: Presidential trash talk

By William Murchison

Former Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press) **FILE**

Former defense secretaries Gates, Panetta fault Obama on Syria

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

People gather to look at the site of a car bombing near Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2013, one year to the date of an attack there killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. (Associated Press)

State Dept.: FBI can’t get into Benghazi to arrest suspects

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, talks March 7, 2013, to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul: Misguided sentencing laws hurt black defendants

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Madness at the Navy Yard

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Acting Internal Revenue Service chief Danny Werfel. (Associated Press)

IRS spied on tea party after granting tax-exempt status

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (center), North Dakota Democrat, arrives to join other lawmakers and national security officials on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, for a closed-door briefing on the situation in Syria. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers have not tightened travel belts, fly in the face of budget rhetoric

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

**FILE** People fill up the room at the job fair on July 15, 2013, in South Burlington, Vt. (Associated Press)

Government job cuts create a historically slow recession recovery

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

By Henry C. Jackson - Associated Press

** FILE ** Hawaii's newest senator, Brian Schatz, who was the state's lieutenant governor, smiles as he talks with reporters on the apron after deplaning from Air Force One on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Washington. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie appointed Mr. Schatz to the post a day earlier to replace the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Civil rights panel members urge rejection in Hawaiian tribal status fight

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

"We as a society have a fundamental choice of whether to cut back on [entitlements] or to raise taxes to pay for them. And so far, we've chosen to do very little of either," says Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf. (associated press)

CBO says government finances will be in dire straits by 2038

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama, Feinstein reignite fight for gun control after Navy Yard shooting

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Traditional Russian matryoshka wooden dolls depicting President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are on display in St. Petersburg on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, during the G-20 summit of world leaders. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

CURL: ‘Pwned’ by Putin: Obama learns about the Cold War

By Joseph Curl