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Ernest Istook

Ernest Istook is a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma. Listen to Ernest's broadcasts online at Washington Times Radio. Subscribe to his daily podcasts on iTunes: Get Ernest's free email newsletter by signing up here.

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President Barack Obama and the first family stands, right, after lighting the 2014 National Christmas Tree during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s 12 Days of Christmas

By Ernest Istook

Performers dance with an effigy of the Loch Ness Monster during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday July 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Global warming causes terrorism? Also acne and crab grass

By Ernest Istook

Gun control propaganda blinds us to Oregon shooting lessons

By Ernest Istook

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., center, speaks with the committee's ranking member Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, as they arrive for a committee's meeting to debate and vote on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. Republican and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reached a compromise Tuesday on a bill that would give Congress a say on an emerging deal to curb Iran's nuclear program. Also pictured is Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., third from left. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Blame Congress, not just Obama, for awful Iran nuclear deal

By Ernest Istook

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, disputing energy industry estimates, argues that average Americans ultimately will see lower electric bills as a result of regulations under President Obama's climate change agenda. (Associated Press)

EPA power grab is water torture for the economy

By Ernest Istook

Corporal Klinger from TV's M*A*S*H would be at home in President Obama's transgender Army.

Obama’s transgender soldiers will distract from our national defense

By Ernest Istook

Congress gave Obama the power to make a bad deal with Iran

By Ernest Istook

Map of sanctuary cities. (Center for Immigration Studies/www.cis.org)

Boycott sanctuary cities because they are unsafe

By Ernest Istook

Cashland's Facebook page

Big Brother kills choices for low-income Americans

By Ernest Istook

This July 4, the rockets’ red glare requires lots of red tape

By Ernest Istook

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By Ernest Istook

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By Ernest Istook

Istook: America is now the land of make believe; truth and reality got lost

By Ernest Istook

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2015 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the Islamic State group, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Biden faces the daunting decision of how and when to re-enter public life after burying his 46-year-old son. On Wednesday, Biden returns to Washington for lunch with the president and a meeting with the Ukrainian leader, but he'll head straight back to Wilmington, evoking memories of the nightly trips home that Biden took after he lost his first child decades ago at the start of his political career. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Protecting Obama’s ‘equities’ keeps the rest of us in the dark

By Ernest Istook

Lost Gun Rights Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Obama swats free speech, gun control

By Ernest Istook

Istook: America’s middle class shrinks as government suppresses opportunity

By Ernest Istook

A woman who declined to give her name, sits at a table in the casino during a liquidation sale at the closed Riviera Hotel and Casino Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas. The Riviera Hotel and Casino closed May 4, but everything inside the 2,075-room hotel-casino must go. National Content Liquidators has started selling it all at a public sale that started 9 a.m. Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Today’s Indian wars are fought at the casino

By Ernest Istook

Carla Chery illustrates how she shops on a budget at her neighborhood supermarket in New York. Ms. Chery, a stay-at-home mom who networks with other moms on her blog, says she uses coupons to keep her family of four fed on a tight food budget. Government regulations are hurting everyday people and wrecking family budgets. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)

How red tape, runaway regulations wreck your budget

By Ernest Istook

Opponents of same-sex marriage hold a rally at the Utah State Capitol Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage rallied in Utah on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of laws banning such marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Supreme Court to decide for believers what marriage is

By Ernest Istook

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