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National Edition Opinion cover for January 27, 2014 - The angry Democrats and their scorched-earth strategy (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)
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The Royal Caribbean International's Explorer of the Seas crusie ship, bottom left, is docked at Charlotte Amalie Harbor in St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. U.S. health officials have boarded the cruise ship to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea. (AP Photo/Thomas Layer)
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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2013 file photo, the paws of a wolf killed by Jeff Powell as the animal is checked into the Michigan Department of Natural Resources station at Wakefield, Mich. Michigan’s first wolf hunt in four decades was held Nov. 15 - Dec. 31. Wildlife biologists said that 17 of the 23 wolves killed were in places within known territories of packs with reputations for “conflicts,” a term that includes repeatedly attacking livestock or pets and exhibiting “fearless behavior” around people. Reducing such conflicts was a major goal of the hunt, officials say. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Cory Morse, file) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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FILE - This April 18, 2008, file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife shows a gray wolf. Michigan’s first wolf hunt in four decades was held Nov. 15-Dec. 31, 2013. Wildlife biologists say that 17 of the 23 wolves killed were in places within known territories of packs with reputations for “conflicts,” a term that includes repeatedly attacking livestock or pets and exhibiting “fearless behavior” around people. Reducing such conflicts was a major goal of the hunt, officials say. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Gary Kramer, File)
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Mariner museum’s president and CEO, Elliot Gruber, talks about funding shortfalls affecting the USS Monitor artifacts at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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The tanks containing the turret, engine, cannons as other artifacts from the USS Monitor in the wet lab are closed and covered at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. The turret is in the tank with the green tarp and the steam engine is in the large tank with the black tarp. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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USS Monitor center director, David Krop, opens one of the closed tank containing one of the Dahlgren guns from the USS Monitor that is under conservation the closed wet lab at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. The turret is in the tank with the green tarp and the steam engine is in the large tank with the black tarp. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Wet lab conservator, Will Hoffman monitors computer readouts of sensors placed on USS Monitor artifacts under conservation at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. The turret is in the tank with the green tarp and the steam engine is in the large tank with the black tarp. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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USS Monitor center director, David Krop, on a public observation walkway, looks out over closed wet lab of the USS Monitor artifacts at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The large green tarp covers the turret tank. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Wet lab conservator, Will Hoffman, replaces artifacts from the USS Monitor into containers at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The museum is facing federal funding shortfalls that threaten to delay the conservation of the USS Monitor artifacts. The museum has seen a steady decline in annual funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amid budget cuts and shifting federal priorities. The turret is in the tank with the green tarp and the steam engine is in the large tank with the black tarp. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This conceptual image provided Jan. 15, 2014, by The Preservation Society of Newport County shows a proposed visitor center that would sit on the grounds of Newport, R.I.'s most famous mansion, The Breakers, built by the Vanderbilt family. Some nearby residents are fighting the plan. The society said the visitor center would be unobtrusive and would provide necessary services that currently are lacking at the popular tourist attraction. (AP Photo/The Preservation Society of Newport County)
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In this Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014 photo, cattle is rounded up for an auction sale at the 101 Livestock Market in Aromas, Calif. California's worsening drought is forcing many ranchers to sell their cattle and other livestock because their pastures are too dry to feed them and it's getting too expensive to buy hay and other supplemental feed. California only got a fraction of its normal rainfall last year, leaving reservoirs and groundwater levels at record lows and prompting many cities to cut water usage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014 photo, Jim Warren, top, owner of the 101 Livestock Market gathers cattle for an auction in Aromas, Calif. California's worsening drought is forcing many ranchers to sell their cattle and other livestock because their pastures are too dry to feed them and it's getting too expensive to buy hay and other supplemental feed. California only got a fraction of its normal rainfall last year, leaving reservoirs and groundwater levels at record lows and prompting many cities to cut water usage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
