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NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly had a contentious interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: NPR, Pompeo interview scandal raises the question of why NPR is state-funded

National Public Radio host Mary Louise Kelly recently violated one of the most important rules of journalism: Don't make yourself the story. Ms. Kelly was granted an interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and used it to ask some questions about this whole Ukraine business. That was well within her rights. So too was Mr. Pompeo's response: He didn't like the questions and made her quite aware of it.

January 29, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Never Trumpers won’t fare well

The Democrat-led impeachment circus should end. It is time for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call for a vote to dismiss the case against President Trump. Talks of more witnesses are a waste of time if the Senate can't hear from Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the so-called whistleblower or Rep. Adam Schiff.

January 29, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Charge Trump’s accusers

When I was in law enforcement many years ago, if someone came in and filed a false report against another person and we later learned it was false, they would be arrested. After watching Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler at President Trump's impeachment hearing fabricating evidence and lying by omission, I strongly believe that they should be charged by the FBI with criminal acts and brought before the Office of Congressional Ethics for violating their oaths of office.

January 29, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Just more trickery

Out here in real America -- you know, that place politicians fear to tread because they may be asked what a gallon of milk costs -- we have some questions regarding the impeachment of President Trump ("DOJ: Barr denies Bolton's book claim of being worried about Trump 'favors' to other countries," Web, Jan. 28).

January 28, 2020
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, is pictured during a "Fridays for Future" demo on the final day of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

EDITORIAL: Greta Thunberg, other young climate doomsayers should not get to dictate policy

At the annual World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin put self-appointed teenage climate-doom prophet Greta Thunberg in her place. After the Swedish 17-year-old's hectoring Jan. 21 speech in Davos demanding that world leaders wreck their countries' economies, putatively to save the planet, Mr. Mnuchin might well have been channeling a 1967 hit song whose lyrics included the line "Come back when you grow up, girl. You're still living in a paper-doll world."

January 28, 2020
In this Oct. 31, 2008, file photo, the Washington Post building is seen in Washington. The Washington Post Co. said Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, its fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled. Its cable TV and education divisions provided most of the lift, although the publishing segment also made money after large cost cuts.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

EDITORIAL: Washington Post journalist unfairly placed on leave for tweeting about Bryant charges

Felicia Sonmez, a journalist at Washington's other newspaper, was one of the few who weighed in after Bryant's death with a discordant note. As news of the helicopter crash broke, she tweeted a link to a Daily Beast article recounting the details of a 2003 sex assault charge that was brought against the then-Laker. (The case was eventually dropped and Bryant paid an undisclosed settlement.)

January 27, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Senate should acquit Trump

Republicans should resist the temptation to summarily dismiss the House's deficient impeachment charges against President Trump. Otherwise, Democrats will continue scavenging for more "evidence" to revive the charges by addendum, ad nauseum.

January 27, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bryant will be missed

I am an unapologetic Boston Celtics basketball fan. I cheer them on with determined TV-watching-fan loyalty. I have my short list of opposing players I loved to root against; these super stars are so despicably great at what they do, at getting their way too often at my Celtics' expense, that I can't help but to respect and admire them.

January 27, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What evidence?

It isn't practical to respond to each issue presented in Andrew P. Napolitano's recent op-ed, "Trump's trial is not a charade but deadly serious business based on constitutional norms" (Web, Jan. 22). But I can briefly respond to the following sentence: "In Mr. Trump's case, though the House chose delicately not to accuse the president of specific crimes, there is enough evidence here to do so."

January 26, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Give GOP witnesses, too

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her goslings had at least 19 "witnesses" appear before the committees during Mrs. Pelosi's official impeachment proceedings, which began on Sept. 24, 2019. Democrats were the only ones to call witnesses, as Mrs. Pelosi wouldn't allow the president or any Republicans to call witnesses. That makes the score 19 for the Democrats, 0 for the president.

January 26, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Rest in peace, Mr. Lehrer

I liked and admired PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer ("Jim Lehrer of the 'MacNeil-Lehrer Report' dies at 85," Web, Jan. 23). He believed news is a public good, not a commodity. He was always completely on the level in reporting, interviewing and moderating debates. His life was a gift that strengthened our democracy. We will remember him always and forever. Jim Lehrer, rest in peace.

January 26, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Trump bashing’ not always fair

I realize you are trying to be "fair and balanced" by printing former Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's opinion pieces, but I have to wonder why you would run some of what Mr. Napolitano writes ("Trump's trial is not a charade but deadly serious business based on constitutional norms," Web, Jan. 22). When you see one of his pieces, you know that you are going to get a Trump bashing.

January 23, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Magical words vs. critical thought

We really shouldn't denigrate the left or reject their ideas out of hand. After all, they are effectively schooling modern capitalists to substitute the phrase "socially responsible growth" with "profit."

January 23, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Left’s attempts have faltered

Americans are tuning out the latest attempt by Democrats to turn supporters of the president away from his assured re-election. The team of Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler and Chuck Schumer reinforce what Americans already know: The Democratic Party is now entirely off the rails with very little chance for redemption or recovery.

January 22, 2020
In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, photo, Equal Rights Amendment supporters demonstrate outside Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. Virginia moved a step closer to ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment on Tuesday, Jan. 1,4 2020, even as the measure's future nationally remains in doubt. A House committee approved a resolution to ratify the gender equality measure, which advocates hope will become the next amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Despite Virginia’s vote, ERA still dead

Backers of the federal Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia got their decades-long wish last week when the new Democrat-controlled General Assembly reflexively resurrected and ratified the moldering constitutional amendment.

January 22, 2020