THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Nurture precious potential

After decades as an instructor for college STEM courses, I am beyond despair over the potential of college students, supposedly our best and brightest, to continue defending and building upon the oldest democracy on Earth: America.

February 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: Democratic candidates add Mike Bloomberg to their bashing of billionaires

Money can buy almost anything, but it can't buy safety from the arrows of the envious. That's the takeaway from televised debate crossfire that a six-pack of bitter 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls trained on one another, and on a billionaire newcomer just entering the race. It's hard to pick a winner out of the chaos, but the losers are obvious: Michael Bloomberg and the American people.

February 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A barren Democratic field

After watching the blithering and blather of the Democratic candidates for president in Las Vegas, I am convinced there was zero leadership potential on that stage. Michael Bloomberg was dense and unprepared, but the most outrageous candidate of all was Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose mindless policies, ill-defined and opaque, would financially overwhelm American society with endless promises of free goods and services for everybody — except, that is, the wealthy, who would undoubtedly leave this country before the destruction of the Sanders policies were finalized.

February 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bloomberg’s poor debate showing

Unfortunately for Michael Bloomberg, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas ("Tom Steyer: Sounded like Mike Bloomberg was running in the 'wrong primary,'" Web, Feb. 20).

February 20, 2020

EDITORIAL: Justice Department prosecutors have managed to trigger ‘Stone-gate’

Hell hath no fury like a deep stater scorned. Anyone believing that losers in the campaign to take out President Trump would apologize or slink away is sadly deluded or comfortably stoned. Though the core of their strategy failed when the Senate acquitted the president of articles of impeachment, the president's enemies battle on to wound him by grinding up his associates while protecting their own.

February 19, 2020

EDITORIAL: Beijing expels three Wall Street Journal reporters in retaliation for an opinion piece

Far be it for the Chinese Communist Party to understand the sanctified split between news and opinion that characterizes most American newspapers, including this one. At most newspapers, reporters strive to report objectively; opinion writers like ourselves are granted a bit more leeway to editorialize. (Some readers may not notice this spirit of objective news is not always rigorously upheld by the likes of The New York Times.) Ideally, news and opinion are wholly independent departments, staffed by discrete groups of writers and editors.

February 19, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Haven’t heard last of Hillary

For love of God and country, do not be fooled by the demise of the Democrats, their squad of far-left decoys and diversions over the past three years, or the silly notion that Bill and Hillary Clinton are not conniving for the White House again in 2020.

February 19, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bernie and ilk peddle fascism

Your recent editorial, "Bernie the puppet master" (Web, Feb. 17), does a fine job of summarizing the Democrats' socialist economic plans. However, you left out two important facts.

February 19, 2020

EDITORIAL: Rob Manfred ruining baseball with weak response to Astros’ chicanery

If Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred hated baseball and wanted to destroy it, he wouldn't be acting any differently. America's pastime needs new leadership, stat.

February 18, 2020

EDITORIAL: Why Congress should fund Trump’s ballistic missile defense proposal

The intellectual glitterati scoffed when Ronald Reagan first proposed the idea of ballistic missile defense but it's now a reality, thanks to the continued efforts of those who believed in the concept and would not let it die. Increasing threats of this kind from adversaries devoting significant resources to new ammunition and delivery systems make it more important now than it has been in some time. We've been waiting to see what President Donald Trump would do, what his legacy in this area would be and, with the release of his FY21 budget, we now know.

February 18, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump, not Obama, created boom

I find it laughable that former President Barack Obama is trying to take credit for the booming Trump economy ("Trump rips Obama's 'con job' after 'trying to take credit' for strong economy," Web, Feb. 18). In 2011, because the economy was so stagnant and doing so poorly, Mr. Trump was inspired to write a book titled, "Time To Get Tough: Making America #1 Again." In it he excoriated Mr. Obama's policies and offered up his own alternatives, which ultimately were adopted as the central tenets of his 2016 presidential "MAGA" campaign platform.

February 18, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Vote for left is vote for discomfort

I am a 36-year-old wounded veteran who has only been 'back on my feet' for two years, when I was given an opportunity to have a job that provides me with more income than I ever had in previous jobs. More importantly, it has provided me a career.

February 18, 2020

EDITORIAL: Bernie Sanders’ love for socialism stronger than abhorrence of tyranny

It's a cruel irony: Just as U.S. economic metrics hit new peaks, along comes a guy who says he wants to transform the nation. Even crueler, crowds of naive followers hope he succeeds. Bernard Sanders and his "Bernie bros" are just what Americans don't need.

February 17, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Stone sentence was too harsh

The Justice Department was right to disavow the prosecutors' draconian recommended sentence of seven to nine years of prison for Roger Stone ("EXCLUSIVE: Edwin Meese backs Trump's 'legal right' but says intervening in criminal cases not 'wise,' Web, Feb. 16). Even anti-Trump former prosecutors agree that sentence was excessive and have predicted that Judge Amy Berman Jackson will likely impose a lower sentence.

February 17, 2020

EDITORIAL: Michael Bloomberg is a plutocrat in a populist age, but his riches may win votes

Mitt Romney, the Utah senator and former business executive, is merely "rich." When the then-Massachusetts Republican ran for president against Barack Obama in 2012, he was estimated to be worth around $200 million. President Trump is also only "rich," with a net worth somewhere in the $3 billion range, according to various estimates. Tom Steyer, the San Francisco hedge fund titan who is also running for president, is similarly situated, worth about $1.5 billion (yet he can't seem to find a decent tie to buy for himself).

February 16, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The enemy is us

Sometimes, reading the headlines, one would think America is being taken over by a foreign enemy. But turning on the news one sees that the enemy is not foreign.

February 16, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Consequences of evaded reality

I was 16 in 1979 when Russia invaded Afghanistan. My father told me to avoid conscription at any cost, as my life in Afghanistan, unlike in Eastern Europe, wouldn't be worth an hour's purchase. In 1981 I joined St. Petersburg University, where a professor said not every country is "democracy material."

February 16, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Spare a dime?

I appreciated Wendy Young's "Deeply flawed Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) causes suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border" (Web, Feb. 8). However, the piece implies that the Americans are the bad guys. Wrong. How about offering a solution to the problem rather than pointing fingers?

February 16, 2020

EDITORIAL: Among Democratic presidential hopefuls, it’s far left vs, far, far left

The mainstream media would have us believe that the Democrats' presidential field is divided between "progressives" (a euphemism for ultraliberals) — Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — and what they call the "more moderate" candidates — former Vice President Joe Biden; former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

February 13, 2020

EDITORIAL: Jussie Smollet’s tall tale unraveled last year and he finally faces the music

The story was the literal definition of incredible. Jussie Smollet, a C-list actor on a good day, claimed that last January, on a frigid Chicago night, he was assaulted at random by two people in one of the city's ritziest neighborhoods. The two strangers, white men both, threw a noose around the actor and poured "an unknown liquid" on him while shouting homophobic epithets and "this is MAGA country!" (Streeterville, Chicago, is not MAGA country.)

February 13, 2020