THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Deplorables’ may not forgive

Before Hillary Clinton castigates Donald Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables," perhaps she should take a closer look at her own political base as well as her own political machine — not to mention her candor and the Clinton Foundation ("Hillary Clinton backpedals as 'deplorables' threatens to become her own '47% moment,'" Web, Sept. 11).

September 13, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s corrupt history

Hillary Clinton has serious problems when it comes to transparency and character. She sent classified emails over nonsecure channels. She was involved in the Whitewater/Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan scandal.

September 13, 2016

Panic contagious in Democratic ranks

Hillary Clinton's pneumonia, being of the bacterial and not the viral persuasion, is apparently not contagious. It's safe to shake her hand and share a cough. But the panic afflicting the Democrats is clearly contagious. Panic is Hillary's most obvious contribution to the 2016 race. She sees handwriting on the wall, and it's a warning writ large that something is gaining on her.

September 13, 2016

The cost of better gas mileage

The roadside cross, displaying a name, perhaps plastic flowers and sometimes a teddy bear attached with duct tape, is a symbol of the broken hearts left behind by someone who died on that spot. After years of declining traffic fatalities, the number of lives lost on the nation's roads and highways is rising again.

September 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton email release being slow-walked by State Department

Whether Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November or is sent back to one of her estates to recover her health, it's unlikely that handling emails at her old shop at the State Department will ever be the same. The growing list of scandals over her misuse of electronic communications has trained a spotlight on the system's failures that she shamelessly exploited.

September 12, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s non-stick IRS

Who knew that ensuring fair and lawful tax collection was so problematic? Internal Revenue Service agents recently admitted to delaying tea party and other conservative group applications for tax-exempt status, and composing non-standard questions for those applicants ("IRS refuses to abandon targeting criteria used against tea party, conservative groups," Web Sept. 7).

September 12, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The cult of global warming

In 2015 the World Economic Forum had a prophetic vision that unless the world mended its wicked ways, "global warming will become catastrophic and irreversible." This past July U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that global warming was as dangerous to the world as Islamic terrorism.

September 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s miserables, deplorables and loose tongues

Hillary Clinton is the pluperfect wonk. She grooves on the trivia of policy and conversations with whoever carries a checkbook. But she doesn't understand campaign politics and has no appreciation of the fine points of the game she insists on trying to play.

September 12, 2016

Thad Cochran plays the catfish game

The catfish is a tasty critter that long ago outlived a less than glorious reputation. The Native American catfish is a sluggard that lives in the bayous and rivers of the Deep South, eager to suck up whatever moves among the tin cans, bottles and accumulated trash on the bottom of the stream (and not to be confused with "catfish" who swim through the internet in pursuit of gamier prey).

September 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton finally gets Donald Trump is real competition

Hillary Clinton, who once thought she could coast down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, has a new view and a new strategy. She has to remind everyone that Donald Trump is mean, egotistical, and nuts, and persuade them that he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office and all those knobs, switches and buttons that could dispatch half the world to dark oblivion.

September 11, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Zap Zika

Why spray dangerous chemicals to kill mosquitoes? The chemicals might harm humans or other animals. My hometown was close to swamps. My community sprayed to control mosquitoes. But that did not seem to work. The mosquito problem finally went away when everyone in the neighborhood got a bug zapper.

September 8, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Right to work, right to prosper

The National Right to Work Committee has called attention to the fact that right-to-work states enjoy a higher standard of living than do non-right-to-work states. Independent studies show that families in right-to-work states have, on average, greater after-tax income and purchasing power than families living in non-right-to-work states.

September 8, 2016

LETTER OT THE EDITOR: Convince Hillary Clinton on Iran

While I believe we should vote for Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin, we should nevertheless make a suggestion to Hillary Clinton in the event she becomes president.

September 8, 2016

Lame-duck Congress lazy, cowardly

Conservatives are rightly apprehensive about the prospect of yet another lame-duck congressional session after the November elections. Republican and Democratic leaders are said to be conspiring to punt on budget, economic and social policy decisions until after voters have cast their ballots.

September 8, 2016

Fixing what’s wrong in prison

Nearly everyone — Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives — has concluded that the nation's criminal justice system is not working. But nobody has figured out how to fix it, or even to summon the energy to try. The government locks up many who shouldn't be in prison, does little to prepare them to re-enter society when they get out and everyone wonders why so many freed prisoners return to the Big House.

September 8, 2016

Racism, reverse racism, reparations join campus lexicon

Fashion goes in cycles. Women's hems go up, they go down. Sometimes they go away, and the pantsuit is in, as Hillary Clinton grimly illustrates. Attitudes undergo alterations, too, and the R-words that everyone claims to hate are everywhere: racism, and the double-R word, reverse racism. Martin Luther King would surely not be pleased.

September 7, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Polls beg for follow-up questions

I take exception to the part of the recent CNN poll that states 50 percent of the population believe Donald Trump is honest and trustworthy compared to 35 percent for Hillary Clinton.

September 7, 2016

Mandated wage increases endanger hourly employees

Not everyone felt like celebrating the contributions of the American worker on Labor Day. Hourly employees have been suffering the pain inflicted by the movement agitating for higher wages imposed by law.

September 7, 2016

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton sprint toward November

And now the fun begins. All that has gone before doesn't count, or at least not very much. The preliminaries are over, the palookas have been dispatched to undercards elsewhere, and with the passing of Labor Day the candidates, and more important, the voters, can get down to the serious business of choosing a president.

September 6, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, swears at Obama

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte swears at President Obama for surrender of much Asia to Red China. After an eight-year legacy of weakness, China, Russia and rogue nations are advancing against America and our allies around the globe.

September 6, 2016