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Progress on immigration

2013-05-22 10:35:00

Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...

The Sun buries Obama scandals

2013-05-22 07:00:00

It looks like this heavily Democratic state's main publication is going to ignore the problems of this administration just like the White House is. What is on the front page of The Sun? is there any mention of Benghazi? The IRS and their illegal actions...

GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals

2013-05-20 08:54:00

Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...

Amid scandal, Obama focuses on jobs in Baltimore

2013-05-17 12:07:00

President Barack Obama told several hundred people gathered at a Baltimore manufacturing plant on Friday that he would keep his administration focused on the economic recovery -- despite a series of political scandals that have rocked the administration...

President talks economy, jobs in Baltimore

2013-05-17 18:25:00

As he traveled through Baltimore to promote his jobs agenda on Friday, President Barack Obama found himself sitting near a 29-year-old man who was uncertain how to reset his life after being released from prison two years ago. In one of the few...

Harris links IRS scandal to Obamacare in address

2013-05-18 06:23:00

Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland used a rare opportunity to speak on behalf of the Republican Party on Saturday to tie the unfolding IRS scandal to President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul of the nation's health care system. Noting that the Internal...

IRS follows Obama's lead

2013-05-20 04:00:00

Of course the president deserves some of the blame. Yes, it's extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And...

Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control

2013-05-20 07:47:00

As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...

Missing Blue Angels? Blame Obama

2013-05-14 04:30:00

In her column ("An Annapolis tradition, grounded," May 13), Susan Reimer writes that Congress should be ashamed that because of sequestration the Blue Angels will skip the U.S. Naval Academy graduation this year. Really? How about President Barack...

Obama's 'Katrina moment'

2013-05-17 06:05:00

It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...

Taxing the tea party

2013-05-13 10:22:00

Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an...

Obama administration assaults press freedom

2013-05-14 09:50:00

In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don't intend to do the wrong thing, to overstep or cause harm, but they become so convinced, so certain of their purpose,...

President Barack Obama speaks next to Vice President Joe Biden (L) about the devastating tornadoes and severe weather impacting Oklahoma, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, May 21, 2013.

2013-05-21 07:33:00

President Barack Obama nominates Penny Pritzker to be Commerce secretary this month at the White House.

2013-05-20 13:30:00

Journalist Charlie Rose attends The New Yorker's David Remnick Hosts White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Pre-Party at W Hotel Rooftop on April 26, 2013 in Washington, DC.

2013-05-20 13:26:00