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CARSON: When servants behave as rulers

By Ben S. Carson - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, said the National Security Agency "has knowingly acquired tens of thousands of wholly domestic communications even though this law was specifically written to prohibit the warrantless acquisition of wholly domestic communications." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Documents show NSA overreach in data collection

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

EDITORIAL: Payback in London

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. Clapper is apologizing for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: A big stick for a little guy

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: President’s economic record abysmal

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**FILE** Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, speaks to reporters on Jan. 9, 2013, in Nashville. (Associated Press)

Sen. Lamar Alexander gets primary challenger in Joe Carr

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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WOOLERY AND YOUNG: A few radical ways to shut down Obamacare

By Chuck Woolery and Mark Young

A "step-by-step approach is the way to do it with enforcement coming first," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, regarding immigration reform. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Illegals snared as immigration debate continues

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Morgan Griffith, R-Va. (Associated Press)

GOP Rep: House would have nixed NSA program

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat, and the committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, arrive on Capitol Hill on July 31, 2013, as the panel questioned top Obama administration officials about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs for the first time since the House narrowly rejected a proposal last week to effectively shut down the NSA's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records. (Associated Press)

Senate to hold hearings on NSA privacy violations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, June 27, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi calls NSA privacy revelations ‘disturbing’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Freeze federal hiring

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** FILE ** The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was gutted in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack by Islamic extremists. (Associated Press)

Benghazi truth-seekers press for ‘paparazzi’ blitz on lawmakers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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BEAUPREZ: EPA’s renewable fuel folly

By Bob Beauprez

**FILE** New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers a speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., on July 30, 2013. During her speech, the first as the head of the EPA, McCarthy told an audience that curbing climate-altering pollution will strengthen the economy. (Associated Press)

On climate change, Obama, EPA plan action without Congress

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael R. Turner

FAA ‘committed’ to approval of drones, but a lot has to be figured out first

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration Crony Capitalism by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EPSTEIN: Cronyism becomes a way of life

By Dan Epstein

ZURITA: The real cost of abortion

By Brenda Zurita

Illustration Global Warming by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Wearing out words

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES