THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Phyllis Schlafly, 1924-2016

Phyllis Schlafly called herself "just a housewife," and lost several races for public office. She was scorned by the political elites and mocked by feminists. Betty Friedan, an early modern feminist icon, told her she should be "burned at the stake" for opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. But when she died Sunday, aged 92, she was recognized as one of the most politically important women of her time.

September 6, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keeping Americans in the dark defies common sense

Jed Babbin's recent column ("Bob Corker's blunder helping Obama get Iran deal," Web, Aug. 30) appropriately criticized President Obama's United Nations Security Council Resolution promoting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Unfortunately, he grossly mischaracterized my role in the congressional debate over the Iran nuclear agreement.

September 5, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump won’t be ‘Arbenz’ed

After reading another fascinating article by Wesley Pruden regarding the media's obsessive desire to vanquish Donald Trump by whatever means necessary, I was reminded of one Col. Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, erstwhile president of Guatemala, who became a forlorn victim of the media ("When a presidential race rages out of control," Web, Aug. 11).

September 5, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop vote suppression

The presidential election is fast approaching. A question every voter should ask is: Will my vote for a president count or will it be a victim of vote suppression? Because of the all-or-nothing approach we use with the electoral college results, many votes for president are swept aside.

September 5, 2016

Obama’s relentless gun purge

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco (naturally), last week approved another step the Obama administration has taken to limit the right to own a gun, though guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. When the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the Constitution prohibits both federal and state governments arbitrarily interfering with the right of individual Americans to "keep and bear arms," it recognized that every constitutional right is subject to "reasonable restrictions."

September 5, 2016

President Obama inherited chaos in Middle East, made it worse

President Obama will soon be leaving the White House, and not a day too soon. He will leave behind a mess in the Middle East beyond exaggeration. The five-year-old Syrian civil war continues unabated, pitting several armed groups, each with foreign sponsors, against each other, leaving the United States caught in a web of its own contradictions.

September 5, 2016

Exercepts from Henry Ford’s ‘My Life and Work’

When you get a whole country -- as did ours -- thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind, which augurs ill for the future. Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves; our help may, however, go to Washington as a sort of central distribution point, where all our efforts are coordinated for the general good.

September 4, 2016

Excerpts from Reagans Labor Day message, 1981

Today, as we set our minds to a new season of work, we begin what I hope will be a new age of the American worker, an age in which all of us again are free to prosper.

September 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Immigrants: Exit the way you entered

To be an immigration restrictionist today is to reside in a political Groundhog Day where sensible enforcement strategies of yesteryear have disappeared into a black hole.

September 1, 2016

Outrage in Chicago

The Labor Day weekend in Chicago is not so much celebrated as feared. Americans elsewhere are preparing to spend the end of summer at the beach or around a neighbor's barbecue bounty, but in Chicago the police are bracing for a weekend of murder and mayhem on steroids.

September 1, 2016

What’s at stake in Mexico

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's invitation to the two American candidates for president to visit Mexico illustrates not only his interest in the American election, but his interest in how to use the expanding role of Mexico in domestic American politics.

September 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s bill’s come due

I am getting tired of all of the talking heads on TV telling Donald Trump what to do to bring up his poll numbers. If he needs to bring them up, then either the American people have been influenced to the point of stupidity or the polls are lying.

August 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama ‘orders’ aren’t law

It was appropriate that "White House defends Obama evading Senate on Paris climate deal" (Web, Aug. 29) mentions executive orders in the same context as this planned "executive agreement." President Obama has a clear history of trying to rewrite law by use of executive orders, which in reality are simple policy statements that almost universally include the stock disclaimer that they are not intended to rewrite any law.

August 31, 2016

Donald Trump looked, sounded confident in Mexico

Hillary Clinton and the Democrats -- and a considerable number of Republican summer soldiers who play "can you top this" with each other to see who can say the most hateful things about their party's nominee -- thought they had Donald Trump's number.

August 31, 2016

A vote for low-tech elections

Someone has been hacking into voter registration databases and the FBI is on it. After James Comey's blowing off the evidence collected by his agents of Hillary Clinton's email crimes, however, there's considerable cause to be afraid, very afraid, for the legitimacy of the November elections. With the push to make elections more convenient at the price of security, penetration by outside actors has become nearly inevitable.

August 31, 2016

Graduate students, organize

The National Labor Relations Board has never met a union it didn't like and now that it has a majority of very liberal Democrats, it's eager to assist in the creation of unions that go where no union organizer has gone before.

August 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, the bad guy

Do millions of Americans care that Hillary Clinton just insulted them and categorized them as racists? She attacked Donald Trump, saying he is promoting "paranoia and prejudice," and lumped all Trump supporters into a despicable pool of hatred.

August 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Illegals deportation untenable

Any implementation of a plan to deport more than 11 million illegal aliens is a fat financial tar baby to which the Democratic Party and its statist fellow travelers would love to see a Republican candidate or administration become permanently stuck, much the way President Lyndon B. Johnson marched his party and our nation deeper into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

August 30, 2016

Obama looking for a climate legacy in China

The emperor has no clothes, and it's "we the people" who are expected to butt out. President Obama has flaunted his disdain for the Constitution, and has assumed powers he was never meant to hold. Now Mr. Obama is playing coy about whether he will set U.S. climate change policy on his own uncertain authority.

August 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP, take back social media

The Republican Party cannot win the presidential election unless every single conservative leader, regional official, local politician, Trump-Pence surrogate, and Republcian voter take back social media — ASAP.

August 29, 2016