THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Mike Bloomberg DNC funding runs counter to campaign finance reform promises

Anyone who's followed the political career of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg knows he's a great one for telling other people what to do and how to live. An ex-smoker, he declared war on cigarettes and banned the "Big Gulp" and other large, carry-out soft drinks because he believed they contributed to obesity, raising the cost of public health initiatives. And, despite spending millions on efforts to keep everyday Americans from exercising their Second Amendment rights, he's usually accompanied by an armed security detail.

March 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Creditors should cut some slack

Being that the U.S. government has shown some compassion during this national emergency by issuing a 90-day reprieve on filing our federal income taxes, I believe all banks and creditors should follow suit.

March 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Clintons behind anti-Trump moves

With all due respect for Joe Biden, who is a fine man, given his apparent mental-acuity problems it's highly unlikely that he would complete even one full term as president of the United States if elected. Obviously, his likely female running mate (Hillary Clinton) would then be elevated to the Oval Office via succession without ever having won election herself.

March 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Most approve of virus handling

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released last past Friday revealed that 55 percent of Americans approve of President Trump's management of the coronavirus crisis, while 43 percent disapprove ("Trump's approval rating up since last week for coronavirus outbreak management: Poll," Web, March 20). Just one week earlier, in the same poll, those numbers had been 54 percent disapproving and only 43 percent approving. That's a huge reversal in just one week, reflecting strong public confidence in our president. But try finding that news on the websites of the mainstream media. It might be there, but you're going to have work awfully hard to find it.

March 23, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Media, lose belligerent tone

The media's tone when speaking to President Trump at the daily briefings is belligerent, combative and disrespectful. Meanwhile, their manner is polite and professional when speaking to the experts also at the podium with the president. This conduct borders on suicidal treason.

March 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden blunders on the border

Change that happens day by day is to be expected. The world shifting on its axis practically overnight is not. Just as Joe Biden has apparently hit paydirt on his third try for the top of the Democratic Party's presidential ticket, the nation he hopes to lead looks like an episode of "The Twilight Zone." The coronavirus that is putting American lives in peril is also shredding the trendy notion that borders are losing their relevance, which the candidate has adopted in his winning cause. The requirements of presidential leadership have recalibrated, and progressive policies that sacrifice national security for gauzy globalism are now trash.

March 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: Richard Burr needs to resign from Senate

If Richard Burr decides to give up this whole being a senator thing, he might pitch himself as a television host for the stock-market-obsessed television network CNBC. Mr. Burr, a Republican senator from North Carolina who chairs the Intelligence Committee, made some startlingly prescient market moves before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, which has seen U.S. indices drop some 30 percent. Unless the man is in secret possession of Warren Buffett-levels of financial genius, his moves were just a little too prescient, we suspect.

March 22, 2020

EDITORIAL: Private sector steps up to produce hand sanitizer, other firms pledge to make ventilators

If America is to get through the COVID-19 crisis in good shape, it will largely be because of the private sector. We've already praised those organizations that — at great risk to themselves — shut down significant portions of their operations to protect public health.

March 22, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Prosecute for insider trading

Once again, the powerful ruling class proves that it is shamelessly sneaky in using the classified intelligence its receives on world events to selfishly save its stock portfolios from a looming crisis — a perk the average American is denied ("Sens. Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler sold stock before steep market losses from coronavirus," Web, March 19).

March 22, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No time for left’s divisiveness

I'm an old-fashioned, America-first Democrat who is offended by opponents of President Trump wanting our economy to fail for political advantage. I am disappointed in the media giving celebrities a platform to constantly accuse the president of being a misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe or racist just to exacerbate the hatred and division in our great country. In fact, I find the use of these terms as offensive as the n-word. I dislike my Democratic leaders' hatred of the president and their apparent support of these spiteful individuals.

March 22, 2020

EDITORIAL: Leaders must forestall further collapse, stimulate the economy

No one with any sense would deny the coronavirus spread has had a deleterious effect on the U.S. economy. The panic selling on Wall Street has caused the gains created by Trump administration policies on taxes and regulation to be largely erased. Mortgage interests are creeping up despite the Fed dropping the rate at which it loans money to financial institutions to as close to zero as it can go. And people are preparing for massive layoffs, and days if not weeks without paychecks, as the push toward voluntary isolation moves forward.

March 19, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Replace the Comfort, Mercy

The photo accompanying "Everything you need to know about the hospital ship USNS Comfort deployed to N.Y." (Web, March 18) shows the full force and compassion of the United States wherever and whenever it drops anchor or pulls up to a pier.

March 19, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Coronavirus is indeed from China

I am getting totally fed up with the politically correct police who refuse to allow anyone to make a statement they think might offend someone. Just who are they to make such a determination and then splash it all over the media? In doing so, they're attempting to belittle that person or group.

March 19, 2020

EDITORIAL: China has much to hide

Apart from the obvious, there isn't much more to be said about this week's banishment of American journalists from China. On Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry demanded the credentials of American citizens working for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times and seems poised to take similar measures against Time magazine and the Voice of America.

March 18, 2020

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden shifts from also-ran to front-runner

Tuesday's party balloting in three populous states went heavily for the former vice president, who has ridden quickening momentum from also-ran to leader of the pack. The most recent results were hardly a surprise: The Real Clear Politics polling average showed Mr. Biden up 56.7 percent to 33.8 percent over Bernie Sanders prior to the balloting, and the FiveThirtyEight election forecast put the odds of a Biden ticket at better than 99-1.

March 18, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Can government save us?

I normally don't agree with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, but he is absolutely correct in invoking World War II/Great Depression rhetoric, arguing that it will take a federal response to mobilize the nation to fight the COVID-19 pandemic ("Bill de Blasio wants 'literally a nationalization' of some private companies over coronavirus," Web, March 16).

March 18, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Where to go from here

While there may be some question as to where, when and whom to blame for a thus-far, less-than-successful fight against the coronavirus, we must now find the solution rather than affix guilt ("Trump slams media's coronavirus coverage after days of praise," Web, March 18).

March 18, 2020

EDITORIAL: Let’s win the war against coronavirus by taking care of yourself, others

By the time you read this, you will have likely already felt the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic in some facet of your life. You are likely confined, for all intents and purposes, to an increasingly smaller radius that will, if we hit the point feared by many health care professionals, keep you pegged to your property except for occasional trips to the grocery store.

March 17, 2020

EDITORIAL: Who cares what we call the virus?

What's in a name? To keyboard commanders of varying stripes stuck at home, a lot, apparently.

March 17, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Smokers, self-quarantine

Now is prime time for all on the reverberating coronavirus public stages to connect "social distancing" with the longtime dire need for tobacco smokers to surrender their "right" to exhale their public toxic exhaustion. Innocent kids, pets and bus stops have been violated too long by tobacco addicts.

March 17, 2020