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“With each day that passes without enacted postal reform further impacts the Postal Service’s already dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells congressional lawmakers. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Postmaster asks for flexibility

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

President Obama runs to the stage before speaking to workers and guests at the Linamar Corporation plant in Arden, N.C., on Feb. 13, 2013, as he travels after delivering his State of the Union address. (Associated Press)

On the road, Obama told to go home

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama laughs during the beginning of the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner, Friday, June 19, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Obama goes 8 for 20 from last year’s State of Union pledges

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama’s bicycle ride on June 8. (Associated Press)

Will Obama take executive action on climate change?

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** File ** President Obama looks to Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, after announcing Mr. Kerry's nomination as the next secretary of state in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Dec. 21, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

Secretary of State John Kerry seeks to free $700 million for Palestinian aid

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Woman tossed out of Obama’s State of the Union speech for shouting support for gun control

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Text of President Obama’s State of the Union address

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey (left) joins Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to tell lawmakers about the potential effects of the looming and “potentially tragic” cuts to the defense budget. (Associated Press)

Military chiefs give warnings on sequestration

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Marco Rubio on Tuesday will deliver the State of the Union opposition response in English and Spanish. (Associated Press)

GOP’s Rubio tells Obama to end obsession with taxes, while tea partier Paul attacks spending

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens at right as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

Obama outlines activist second term in State of the Union

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Obama issues plan to protect US business networks

By ANNE FLAHERTY and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

President Obama waves as he walks down the West Wing Colonnade of the White House on Feb. 12, 2013, ahead of State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill later that day. (Associated Press)

Obama calls for spending programs that won’t add to deficit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** China is now the world’s biggest and fastest-growing source of air-polluting greenhouse gases as it relies increasingly on coal to generate electricity. (Associated Press)

Emissions pledge seen within reach

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration: Federal Reserve by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

STANEK: Suspension may be sign of the end for debt ceiling

By Steve Stanek

President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 11, 2013, during a Medal of Honor ceremony for retired Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha. (Associated Press)

Obama’s State of the Union a wish list for liberals

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

STUTZMAN: Printing more money won’t stop economy from shrinking

By Rep. Marlin Stutzman

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PAUL: From illegals to taxpayers

By Sen. Rand Paul

Dan Pfeiffer (Associated Press)

White House: GOP spreading ‘myths’ about Obama’s fiscal approach

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"We're in a different kind of war,” Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat (left), said on NBC's "Meet the Press.” about the use of drones. “We've got to strike a new constitutional balance.” (Associated Press)

Drone use raises a lot of doubts on the Hill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times