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Kelly Riddell »
IRS, AP and Benghazi Show the Failure of Obama's Big Government 01:05 PM ET

The leadership failures and bureaucratic dysfunction exposed by the Internal Revenue Service scandal should be a wake up call to anybody who believes bigger government can solve this nation's problems.

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Pat Garofalo »
Coburn Wants Oklahoma Tornado Aid Offset With Budget Cuts 11:57 AM ET

A massive tornado ripped through Moore, Okla. and surrounding cities yesterday, leaving scores of Americans dead. Photos from the scene show complete and total devastation, nothing but dirt and timber where once whole neighborhoods stood.

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Susan Milligan »
Crowdfunding Zack Braff's Film And Robert Griffin's Gifts Is a Mistake 10:20 AM ET

It's understandable that not everyone gives money to the poor. Sometimes people can't spare enough from their own budgets to give to the needy. Some people believe their tax dollars should serve this purpose in a more targeted manner. And there are those who believe that we are all responsible for ourselves and should make our own economic futures.

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Peter Roff »
Poll Shows Americans Find Obama's IRS Story Barely Believable Yesterday

You don't have to believe in the tooth fairy or that the U.S. government has hidden the bodies of space aliens at Area 51 to think something is fishy in the way the news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had been singling out conservative political groups for special, even extraordinary, scrutiny.

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Keith Lee Rupp »
Do Benghazi, AP and IRS Scandals Reflect Obama’s Leadership Style? Yesterday

"Remember, a fish always rots from the head down," a colleague of mine would cackle loudly in his Baltimorean accent. He would do this every time he observed an organizational foul-up at the magazine where we worked decades ago. His voice began ringing in my head last week as we watched a trifecta of scandals wash over the West Wing.

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Susan Milligan »
In Marine Umbrella Incident, Republicans Still Deny Obama Is President Yesterday

Have we become so obsessive-compulsively, potato chip scarfing-like addicted to scandal that we are really having some sort of national discussion about umbrellas?

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Why a College Degree May Not Be Worth It

Former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett explains why a college degree may not be worth the cost.

Two-Party Politics Is Failing the U.S.

Professor Charles Wheelan explains how centrists could change the Senate landscape.

The Rover Has Landed

NASA scientist Roger Wiens talks about the role Mars Rover Curiosity plays in the future of space exploration.

World Report

The Not-So-Definitive Syrian Red Line

The White House needs to stop explaining what the president might have meant by "red line" and simply set a policy.

Economic Intelligence

GOP Must Rethink Consumer Bureau Obstruction

Republicans have vowed to block any nominee unless the new Bureau is substantially weakened.

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Robert Schlesinger

An End to the NRA’s Angry Swagger

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans, and even of NRA members, favor universal background checks.

Mary Kate Cary

Washington’s Toxic Stew

President Obama's burgeoning problems affect more than this week’s three scandals.

Mort Zuckerman

Meeting the Growing Threat of Cyberattacks

We have yet to establish security standards to prevent large-scale cyberattacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure.

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