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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop rewarding illegal immigration

The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: Diverting food for fuel

By Paul Driessen

**FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Immigration, student loans top congressional agenda

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat (Associated Press)

PRUDEN: Obamacare called ‘The fiasco for the ages’

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Illustration: LGBT flag

DONNELLY: The Pentagon’s costly same-sex salute

By Elaine Donnelly

A Metropolitan Police Department camera sits high above home in the Berry Farms Neighborhood in Southeast. Police say they track criminal activity in areas to determine where the cameras are most useful. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Shuttering the revenue cameras

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

"Implementation of the ACA has not lowered costs or increased access as promised. Individuals, families and employers still face increasing health insurance costs, new taxes overseen by what we have recently learned is a politically-biased IRS, burdensome mandates, and massive uncertainty because of this flawed law." — Sen. Jerry Moran (left), Kansas Republican. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tweaks, twists and turns of Obama’s health law; mandate delay just the latest

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

DIBACCO: The first ‘greatest generation’

By Thomas V. DiBacco

Wax figures of President John Adams, left, and President Thomas Jefferson, right, are on display as part of an American Presidents exhibit at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. A new gallery opening in Washington will show wax figures of all 44 U.S. presidents together in the nation's capital for the first time. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NAPOLITANO: Jefferson is weeping

By Andrew P. Napolitano

**FILE** People wait under a tree after they were detained by Border Patrol agents on June 25, 2013, at a field in Edinburg, Texas. Agents took into custody 69 people suspected of entering the country illegally. (Associated Press/The Monitor)

Immigrants account for all job gains since 2000: native-born workers’ employment has fallen

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama, center, and and Gov. Chris Christie meet with local residents as they tour neighborhood effected by superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Brigantine, N.J. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Bad weather changes congressional environment voting: Study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama wipes away sweat during a speech at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obamacare’s employer mandate delayed to 2015

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden has left Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and entered Russia his lawyer said on Thursday Aug. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s father suggests son’s leaks may be protected by Constitution

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Mark Weber

SENSENBRENNER: The Senate’s amnesty echoes only failure

By F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Push for carbon tax, not regulation

The Washington Times

Illustration: Tax burden by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: What austerity?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

President Obama listens to the audience's response to a question he asked during a Rose Garden event with college students on Friday, May 31, 2013, at the White House, during which the president called on Congress to keep federally subsidized student loans rates from doubling on July 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Student loan rates double after congressional inaction

By Phhilip Elliott - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this March 8, 2012, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

PRUDEN: A bigger bed for the honeymoon

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Still opportunities to cut spending

The Washington Times

Illustration by Donna Grethen

RIDDELL: Food-stamp fiasco in the farm bill

By Kelly Riddell