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Jim Greer, owner of Angus MacGregor's Trading Post, is moving his gun shop and model train store to Pennsylvania because of Maryland's new gun legislation starting next month, Waldorf, Md., Thursday, September 12, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaking ABC's "This Week" on Sunday said that he will not allow a debt increase without winning some concessions on lowering spending. "We are not going down that path. It is time to deal with America's problems. How can you raise the debt limit and do nothing about the underlying problem?" (Associated Press)
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"Obviously we prefer a U.S. government which is working to one which is not," Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in reference to the shutdown. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Could controversy and political correctness cause the Washington Redskins to be redefined as Redskins, as in the potato variety? There's already a "Redskins Mr. Potato Head" out there at the team store. (PPW TOYS)
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llegal immigrant advocates interrupted Sen. Ted Cruz’s speech to the Values Voters Summit on Friday more than a dozen times on, calling on the Texas Republican and potential presidential candidate to support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. “How scared is the president?” Mr. Cruz said. “Oh, they don’t want the truth to be heard. They definitely don’t want the truth to be heard.” (Associated Press)
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A Public Policy Polling survey found that Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has past others including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to become the top pick of GOP primary voters in the 2016 presidential nomination race. (Associated Press)
