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The House of Representatives has already voted to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt for withholding Fast and Furious documents. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

EDITORIAL: Outrage as Eric Holder taps Obama donor to investigate IRS targeting conservatives

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for RINOs to follow Tea Party

By our readers

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, came up with a solution that would allow the president to request a debt limit increase. To reject it, Congress would have to pass legislation that the president could veto, meaning it would take a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress to stop an increase. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: This is no bargain

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Host President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, arrive at the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors reception honoring the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: IRS doubles down

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

William Temple (left), dressed in a tri-corner hat, cheers for speakers during "Audit the IRS," a tea party rally against the Internal Revenue Service on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 19, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**

SOWELL: Sticking to Tea Party principles

By Thomas Sowell

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

SOWELL: Tea Party at the crossroads

By Thomas Sowell

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie visits a school a day after his landslide win. Tea partyers say the Republican National Committee spent money on his campaign that should have gone to Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II in Virginia. (Associated Press)

Tea party bitter with GOP over governor races, says Ken Cuccinelli was robbed

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures as she speaks to reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

KNIGHT: Democrats’ single message: Proclaim sanity is ‘extremism’

By Robert Knight

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tea Party, business principles line up

** FILE ** Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. (Associated Press)

KUHNER: Unfairly tarring the Tea Party

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

President Barack Obama meets with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. In the rocky relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan, the mere fact that Obama and Sharif sit down is seen as a sign of progress. Few breakthroughs are expected on the numerous hot-button issues on their agenda Wednesday, including American drone strikes and Pakistan's alleged support of the Taliban. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Cut the gangster talk

Illustration by Tim Brinton

TAUBE: John Boehner’s critics want to show him the door

By Michael Taube

House Speaker John A. Boehner (center right), Ohio Republican, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (center left), Virginia Republican, walk to a second GOP caucus meeting to discuss the "fiscal cliff" bill — which was passed by the Senate on Monday night — at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP loses more young, minority and female voters after shutdown

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

KEENE: Learning the difference between a wary friend and determined foe

By David Keene

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, gestures as he talks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, in Washington. Sen. McConnell and his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown after Republican divisions forced GOP leaders to drop efforts to ram their own version through the House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

KUHNER: The Tea Party’s coming vindication

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

KUHNER: A search for a silver lining

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

KUHNER: Mr. Cruz goes to Washington

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

KNIGHT: Lessons from the Colorado recall

By Robert Knight

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Tea party-linked lawmakers shun strike on Syria

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Jackson is the race-obsessed one

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES