THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Let states manage forests

Nicolas Loris makes a strong case for state management and control of energy extraction on federal lands ("Let the states manage resources on federal lands," Web, June 18). The headline really caught my attention, as I thought the op-ed was referring to all federal lands. Instead it discussed energy production on federal lands. I was hoping that the national forests would be mentioned. State management of the national forests has been proposed as a model to promote healthy forests, support rural economies and fund rural schools. State-managed forests have a record of substantially larger per-acre, harvested-timber volumes, with significantly larger per-acre revenues that help support local economies.

June 24, 2018

EDITORIAL: Justin Trudeau withdraws his cheap promise of an open order

Talking the talk is easy. Walking the walk is not so easy. Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, thought he could take an easy shot at the United States, and Donald Trump in particular, for American determination to get out-of-control immigration under something resembling control. Lesson apparently learned.

June 24, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Remove Rosenstein

The Justice Department should be ashamed for not following the law and the Constitution of the United States in that it is withholding documents from Congress. Its people have also lied about the contents pertaining to national security. Since when is buying a conference table for $75,000 a matter of national security? It's merely an embarrassment to the DOJ for how it handles taxpayer money. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should be removed, and an honest person — one who is responsible to the people and laws of the country — should replace him. American citizens are tired of all the lies.

June 24, 2018

EDITORIAL: Children are more than political props, and chaos is not acceptable

It's in the DNA of the human family to hear to the cry of a helpless child. Democrats and their media partners know it, and have weaponized the migrant child in their obsession to destroy Donald Trump and his administration, and by any means necessary.

June 21, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Make Fonda pay for tweet

When a Democrat holds the office of the presidency, conservatives are warned not to personally attack the First Family, especially the president's children. Pundits were warned not to attack Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton or the Obama girls.

June 21, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Opinion vs. truth

In their op-ed "Unearthing American evolution in Jamestown" (Web, June 20), Kym Hall and David Givens blithely quote Indiana Jones: "[A]rcheology is the search for fact, not truth." Then they write, "Fact is something that cannot be changed while truth depends on a person's perspectives and experience." The two have defined "opinion," not "truth." The latter exists whether you believe it or not.

June 21, 2018

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump’s order prohibiting separation of children was the right thing to do

The mamas are happy. The papas are happy. Best of all, the little children (and some big ones) are happy. Most of the rest of us are happy. Only Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democratic congressional candidates have mixed feelings about President Trump's executive order prohibiting the separation of children from their parents arrested for illegally crossing the border from points south.

June 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left cares about winning, not kids

On a daily basis, America's so-called "family courts" separate hundreds to thousands of children from their fathers without so much as a peep from the Democratic left -- in fact, they created the separation laws. In contrast, the separation of illegal-immigrant children from their fathers (and mothers) is met with howls and screeches heard across the land ("Democrats in no rush to help Trump, GOP clean up family separation mess," Web, June 19).

June 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Project won’t harm Mount Vernon

Dominion Energy has long been a major supporter of Mount Vernon. As such, it was disheartening to see a complete falsification of the purpose of one of our energy infrastructure projects and its potential impact on this historic icon and nearby community ("When energy and commercial development clash," Web, June 7).

June 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: U.S. can’t house world

Immigrants ask permission, fill out forms, wait patently in line and respect the laws of the country to which they wish to immigrate. Invaders, by contrast, just break in and take what they want. Most Democrats and some Republicans don't seem to understand the difference.

June 19, 2018

EDITORIAL: President Trump’s feud with Jeff Bezos threatens to cost everybody

Several months ago President Donald Trump "went postal" on Amazon, continuing his feud with Jeff Bezos, who is said to be the world's richest man, and owner of The Washington Post, which the president frequently denounces as a fountain of fake news.

June 19, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: After taxes, procreation a luxury

The high overt and covert rates of taxation easily account for lowered American birth rates, since taxpayers can no longer finance large families for themselves when they are financing other peoples' children and welfare through their taxes ("U.S. births hit a 30-year low, despite good economy," Web, May 30). More children for welfare families and third-world immigrants who have their shelter, food, medicine, education, clothing, goods, etc., provided at the expense of the taxpayer whose children are never born. Call it the cowbird phenomenon. The cowbird pushes another bird's eggs out of the nest and replaces them with her own eggs so the victim bird ends up raising another bird's children while her own children lie as broken eggs under the nest.

June 19, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump can resolve political crisis at the border with a phone call

A crying child on the border, hugging his mother's legs and begging not to be separated from her, breaks everybody's heart (except those with a heart of stone). Such a child, in a newspaper photograph, or 30-second video on television or online, sweeps explanations, discussion and all else away.

June 18, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Mars finding could reveal life

A car-sized, nuclear-powered, robotic science lab has been exploring the planet Mars for the past five years. It is looking for signs that Mars once could have supported life. That journey itself started in 1976 with a previous Mars mission called Viking, which was inconclusive. Earlier this month NASA announced significant findings regarding this elusive search for life beyond Earth ("New Mars discoveries advance case for possible life," Web, June 7).

June 18, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Jews not allowed on own holy site

I appreciate that L. Todd Wood recognizes that the Jews are the only group in the Middle East to allow access to people of all faiths to pray in every holy place in Israel, and that President Trump is acknowledging the ancient bonds of the Jewish people and their ancestral land, Israel ("How and why Trump got it so right about Jerusalem," Web, June 14).

June 18, 2018

EDITORIAL: Frightening allies could be Trump’s way to get good things done

Not everyone has the chops to be a leader of nations. Appealing to the better angels of human nature is a lofty approach to leadership, but the unforgiving streets of New York City have taught President Trump another way to get results. After more than a year of watching the president in action, some people still don't appreciate what a little fear can accomplish. Mr. Trump doesn't want a trade war — he just wants his trade partners to have dread of one. Dread can change behavior.

June 17, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump right on tariffs

It is amazing how poorly informed U.S. citizens are when it comes to our institutionalized, supply-side trade and economic policy. The primary function of this system is to supplant domestic productivity with foreign imports and services, not to secure export markets. Disparaging comments about proposed tariffs causing possible trade wars are misleading and inappropriate ("Trump tariffs hit $50 billion of Chinese goods," Web, June 15).

June 17, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Separation law’ already on books

When I tuned in to last Friday's Washington press briefing, I thought White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had fallen into a shark tank during a feeding frenzy. Playboy reporter and CNN contributor Brian Karem followed the usual bias of CNN's Jim Acosta and went ballistic over Ms. Sanders' response about following the law when it comes to the separation of children from the adults who accompanied them at the border (illegal intruders).

June 17, 2018

EDITORIAL: Italy, France trade insults about a migrant ship looking to land

The Group of 7 economic summit in Quebec last week was not quite a family feud, but it didn't bore anyone. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got in a few licks on each other, Mr. Trump's "bromance" with French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to be on the rocks, and his relations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May, never particularly warm, continued to be strained if not frosty. But Mr. Trump struck up a good relationship with newly installed Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Their relations showed a little bonhomie rather than bashing.

June 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: North Korea accord a ‘duck’

In the forming of President George H.W. Bush's administration, budget director nominee Richard Darman indicated in a response during a Senate confirmation how he would know if there was a tax increase: "[I]f it looks like a duck, it's a duck." The recent Trump agreement made with North Korea in Singapore passes the 'duck test.' It is a terrible agreement that sacrifices key Asian allies and brings nothing to the safety of the world.

June 14, 2018