THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: McCain will be missed

The late Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, was always a breath of fresh air. What you saw was what you got with the "Straight Talk Express." Mr. McCain could work across the aisle with Democratic Senate colleagues, including Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman and others, on a regular basis. His across-the-aisle partners also included Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on comprehensive immigration reform and Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold on campaign finance reform. Mr. McCain's history in the Senate harkens back to an age of collegiality no longer seen today. Like New York's late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Mr. McCain was an intellectual giant standing head and shoulders above today's newer generation of senators.

August 27, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No great gesture

Amid the accolades for a man who crossed the aisle with ease are mixed, truly vile divisional politics ("John McCain has died of brain cancer, Vietnam War hero and senator was 81," Web, Aug. 25). Exhibit A is the Democratic leadership of both the U.S. House and Senate offering to rename the Russell Senate Office Building to honor John McCain.

August 27, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump has paid more than lip-service to resolving the immigration disaster

Mollie Tibbetts, 20, a psychology student at the University of Iowa, went for a jog on July 18 and was never seen alive again. She was once a cross-country runner, a good athlete, and hope was fading but still alive when the first month passed and she was still missing. Then her body was recovered on Aug. 21, a life snuffed out before the life could begin in earnest. Miss Tibbetts' dreams of life and love vanished with her.

August 26, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Media against Trump

Freedom of the press does not mean the freedom to lie or tell half-truths. All news outlets have a duty to inform the public, no matter who is in office — and to leave their personal feelings at home.

August 26, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cuomo disrespects sacrifices

I really take offense at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's despicable remark last week that America "was never that great" ("Andrew Cuomo: America 'was never that great,' Web Aug. 15).

August 26, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Treason will be punished

Treason is a crime we identify as against the government -- but when the agenda becomes a personal assault, it takes on a whole new set of terms. The management at the top of the FBI and Justice Department must have thought they were wearing capes, that they were indestructible. These rogue patriots likely rose to the top because of their investigative skills, but they make lousy criminals.

August 23, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump economy soaring

The greatest story of 2018 is the President Trump economic boom. The boom is making the American military strong again and it is effectively leading in the world. The boom also makes it possible to establish a new military space service branch, which will make America dominant in space and the leader in space technology and the development of new weapons.

August 23, 2018

EDITORIAL: Robert Mueller has collected scalps, but not the blond mane he went after

The wheels of justice known for grinding slowly and exceedingly fine, are grinding molasses and marshmallows. Paul Manafort's trial is in the books, moving from the front page to the truss ads. To be sure, the conviction of Donald Trump's one-time campaign manager was more than a nothing-burger. He faces the rest of his life in a striped suit. But neither was it "the trial of a century." In short order, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen skipped the courtroom drama and copped a plea. He's a clotheshorse with expensive tastes and he might look good in stripes, and not even have to pay for them. Robert Mueller, who was expected to tame tigers and lions, has only put the cat out again. Democratic media predictions notwithstanding, the sun came up again this morning and Donald Trump is still president, and Hillary Clinton is still in the kitchen, baking cookies and trying to get the wifely hang of preserving the summer's string beans, squash and peaches.

August 23, 2018

EDITORIAL: Omarosa, like the Donald, was born for trash media

Nothing could so expose the mainstream media as an industry built on bashing Donald Trump like the rise of the star of Omarosa. She was born for trash media, particularly trash television. No one fuels a first-stage rocket like Donald Trump. To the fury of the media, no one can make a star shine brighter than the Donald, and every trashy scandal makes him stronger.

August 22, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Garnish foreign aid for wall

Taxpaying citizens of the United States foot the bill for the financial aid to foreign countries via their tax dollars to the federal government. Perhaps, then, one way to have Mexico help the pay for that wall President Trump wants built would be to give Mexico a mere 2 percent of the usual total amount of financial aid we give it — every year until the cost of the wall is paid off.

August 22, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Politics needs discussing

The person who originally said it is best not to discuss religion or politics was either a priest, a politician or both (yes, both can exist as one).

August 22, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: KKK insignificant

There are between 5,000 and 8,000 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members today, distributed in nearly 180 different Klan factions (or chapters), according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most of these chapters are located in the southern region of the U.S. This hate group, organised in 1865, used to have about 4 million members in 1925, when it was at its largest.

August 21, 2018

EDITORIAL: Less talk about opioids, more action

President Trump deserves considerable credit for putting the opioid addiction crisis on the front pages where it attracts needed public attention. Opioids, or heroin-based painkillers, are a devastating blight on millions of Americans, producing a sense of hopelessness and sapping the energy and industriousness of the nation just as we're on the wave of a major economic recovery.

August 21, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Turkey’s no friend now

Turkey is a member of NATO and for many years was both an ally and a good friend of the United States. Unfortunately that is no longer true. Sadly, during the past 20 years the influence of Islamist leaders have changed the course of Turkey and most recently unjustifiably damaged religious freedom in that nation.

August 21, 2018

EDITORIAL: Democrats are still looking for a substitute for success

Socialism, of all discarded economic systems, is sending shock waves across the political landscape in dark tones as Democratic candidates in the midterm congressional elections pitch their proposals for improving the nation's economy, which is already looking pretty good. Economics, the dismal science, seldom excites the pulse but everyone has an interest in what's in his wallet. More than banners and promises from "progressives" will be required to persuade voters that harsh government beats free enterprise.

August 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: All should respect the flag

I am the son of non-U.S.-citizen parents who proudly said to me many times over, "That beautiful piece of red, white and blue hanging off that pole is your flag, not ours." During renditions of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with their right hands over their hearts. Those not in uniform should remove their head coverings with their right hands and hold them at their left shoulders, over their hearts. Persons in uniform should render the military salute at the first note of the anthem and hold this position until the last note. When the flag is not displayed, those present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.

August 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: When will Clintons pay?

Whence comes justice in the federal bureaucracy? When will Hillary Clinton be brought to justice for storing and exposing classified information on her private, unauthorized file server? When will she be held accountable for her pay-to-play ploy in the Uranium One transaction, whereby her unique role as secretary of State allowed Russia to rob 20 percent of American uranium stocks in exchange for huge donations to the Clinton Foundation and garnered her husband exorbitant speaking fees?

August 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Radical left not morally superior

In recent times, many radical leftists have pretended to be paragons of virtue. They have condemned practices and policies of history (some of which were indeed despicable) and presented themselves as morally superior for having done so. I view this with disdain. The generations which preceded these self-anointed philosopher monarchs had to deal with evil: Slavery, Fascism, Communism and more. But what stikes me, an interested observer, the most is that these radicals have failed to condemn the epidemic of out-of-wedlock birth rates, the refusal of many elements to accept individual accountability (victimhood and a society-owes-me mentality), and the ruination of the nuclear family.

August 19, 2018

EDITORIAL: No one knows for sure how many illegal aliens already here

The illegal immigrants, by whatever name or label they're called, keep on coming. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York scoffed that "America was never all that great." He took it back only after he was inundated by several days of outrage and by the thousands who arrive every day having argued with him with their sore feet.

August 19, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Reinvention’ or ruination?

During the Clinton administration, Vice President Al Gore proclaimed a goal of "reinventing government." President Obama proclaimed his goal of fundamentally transforming America.

August 19, 2018