THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bees at risk

"Earth Talk: How can the public monitor pesticide levels?" (Web, July 10) highlighted the dangers to bees of the overuse of pesticides. Too often we are ignorant on the fragility of bee colonies and how our pesticide use affects them.

July 19, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Too tired of trickery to care?

Is there any reason to believe that the evidence underpinning special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Russian government officials would be any more credible than the phony Steele dossier being used to justify the investigation into President Trump ("Mueller team meets with lawyers for Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller," Web, July 18)? Considering the intense pressure the Mueller team has been under to justify its open-ended investigation of this president, isn't it just a little curious that evidence has suddenly surfaced to indict someone — anyone — for election meddling?

July 19, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump seems to understand that diplomacy is rarely a quick fix

Ours is not an age for reflection, patience and slow-dancing. Our age demands instant gratification. Sooner than that, if possible. Thus the slow-dancing in the latest exchange since the famous Singapore handshake, originating in a hand-carried letter to Pyongyang. The response came back in another hand-carried letter, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continuing as postman.

July 19, 2018

EDITORIAL: A grand night for baseball

Baseball is the reason God made summer. Summer stretches out with the solace and symmetry of a long fly ball to deep center field, climbing ever higher and hanging in the sky as if the afternoon could go on forever. Whether watching a ball game from a box seat on the third-base line or through a hole in the right-field fence, we could only wish it would.

July 18, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Unknowable stock market

It seems we hear every day from various news sources that the stock market surged because of new labor statistics, housing starts, etc. And the reverse also seems to be the case; newscasters say the market went down because of some natural disaster or some negative government statistics. The fact is, no one really knows why the stock market moves in any direction and news outlets, writers and other wizards should stop claiming that they know something they can't possibly know.

July 18, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Tell Congress to butt out

How history repeats itself. Few today probably know how divided the country was right after the adoption of our Constitution in 1787 and the seating of the government in 1789. In the decade of the 1790s, the Federalist Party of Washington, Hamilton and Ames was in power, and the Republican Party of Jefferson and Madison could not stop the Federalists' agenda.

July 18, 2018

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump learns the fightin’ side of America is not a place to be

The most depressing thing about Donald Trump's astonishing cuddle-up with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is that it reveals how small the president's mastery of history and power politics. Worse, he does not hear the minor chords in the music of America, a gift most Americans acquire in the womb.

July 17, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: End EB-5 program

Daniel J. Mitchell's defense of the EB-5 Regional Center Program omits key information and proceeds to discredit arguments nobody is making ("Helping a program that creates American jobs," Web, July 16, 2018). His key complaint is that the Senate Judiciary Committee's recent hearing on EB-5 had a single witness, whom he claims was sympathetic to Chairman Chuck Grassley. Tellingly, he never names that witness.

July 17, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Election meddling nothing new

The ongoing discussions about President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the latter's attempted influence in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections is nothing new. It reminds me of Capt. Renault in "Casablanca": "I'm shocked — shocked! — to find that gambling is going on in here." Only Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was honest enough to tell the truth.

July 17, 2018

EDITORIAL: No one is buying what Peter Strzok is trying to sell

'Bias" isn't complicated, and recognizing it is so easy a child can see it, and usually does. Every parent discovers this. If bias and the appearance of bias were persons, they would be identical twins whose mother couldn't tell them apart. Though usually personae non grata in law enforcement, these twins palled around with key players in the investigations of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. So, too, the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified emails, and it fueled hatred for one and affection for the other. There won't be a satisfactory explanation for the sordid behavior of the Justice Department and its subsidiary, the FBI, until the curious decision that exonerated Mrs. Clinton and targeted Mr. Trump is explained, and in full.

July 16, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sexes replaced by ‘human’

Recently a teacher friend shared the news that teachers may no longer say "boys" and "girls" but rather must address the kids at school as "humans" in the classrooms. I was shocked to hear this because not only are the schools in California going overboard with everything, but they're outright confusing everyone in the process.

July 16, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Abortion unlikely to become illegal

The Democratic Party has been very successful in raising money by scaring people about the possibility of losing the ability to get a legal abortion. The left points to a possible Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade with a strong suggestion that such a decision would make abortions illegal. This is not accurate, for two reasons.

July 16, 2018

EDITORIAL: Everybody’s got a complaint but nobody has a chill pill

Gershwin got it right: "Summertime, and the livin' is easy, the fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." It's the season for sitting on the bank of the creek with a fishing pole and letting life come to you. But sometimes those fish aren't biting, and the flies and mosquitos are. The dog days are soon upon us, and the grumblers will be wondering where to get a peaceful, easy feelin'. It's the summer of our malcontents.

July 15, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Gohmert had to act as media

Why is it that I had to find out from Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican — and not the media — about former FBI agent Peter Strzok's adultery ("Rep. Gohmert to Strzok: How many times did you lie to your wife about Lisa Page?" Web, July 12)? Is it because the media was embarrassed that it did not mention this?

July 15, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: FBI, DOJ don’t deserve roles

Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok's congressional testimony revealed inherent bias, mendacity and corruption within the FBI's Counterintelligence Division ("Trump says after Strzok hearing that 'rigged' Mueller probe is hurting U.S. relations with Russia," Web, July 13). Mr. Strzok proclaimed that the vulgar and partisan messages with his mistress Lisa Page via FBI smartphones could never create biased investigations. He testified, "And the suggestion that I, in some dark chamber somewhere in the FBI, would somehow cast aside all of these procedures, all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this is astounding to me. It simply couldn't happen." Yet Mr. Strzok conveniently omitted that these "safeguards" included the former FBI Director James Comey, the now-fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr and of course, the now-resigned FBI girlfriend-attorney Lisa Page. These people were the checks and balances to which Mr. Strzok alluded. This all suggests something rotten in the Counterintelligence Division.

July 15, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump warns NATO that Uncle Sugar doesn’t live there any more

President Trump knows how to make a point by showing up late for a meeting. He arrived 30 minutes late Thursday at a session of the NATO summit, missed scheduled meetings with two world leaders, and talked to reporters for an unscheduled 35 minutes and then flew off to London for greater opportunities for tardiness.

July 12, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Abortion not legal right

The 1973 Supreme Court decision that legitimized on-demand abortion in the case of Roe v. Wade is not "settled law." The court did not permanently legalize abortion in the United States by admitting it could not resolve "the question of when life begins." It clearly stated: "If personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."

July 12, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Supreme Court not Congress

Citing his concern about Judge Kavanaugh's adherence to judicial precedent, Sen. Chuck Schumer has announced he will take the unprecedented step of questioning Judge Kavanaugh about his personal opinions on cases that may come before him on the court of appeals on which he currently serves and on the Supreme Court to which he has been nominated ("Chuck Schumer: Brett Kavanaugh must divulge personal views on abortion to win confirmation," Web, July 9).

July 12, 2018

EDITORIAL: Government unions block attempts to demand government excellence

Donald Trump says he wants excellence and higher productivity in government and you might think liberals, always eager to expand the work of government, would stand up and applaud. But there's not even the sound of one hand clapping. The reaction of the "progressives" to attempt to modernize civil service rules that monitor the hiring and firing of federal workers — reforms that could start taking place this week — has been a mixture of one part fear and two parts loathing.

July 11, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kavanaugh wrong for court

Brett Kavanaugh is the wrong choice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. If he is confirmed to the Supreme Court, everything that we hold dear as a nation will be at stake.

July 11, 2018