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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump running U.S. like business

The political left and its supporting media spend all their time bashing President Trump, who just shrugs it all off with a well-timed tweet, always spot-on and right between the eyes. While these professional do-nothings maintain their perpetual malfeasance, we have a president who is exceeding his goals. How is that possible?

June 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Politics touches all

Charles Krauthammer is gifted with profound insight. In the introduction to his book, "Things That Matter," he explains that everything truly important (i.e., friends, family, happiness in general) is affected by and dependent on politics. To paraphrase: When the politics are right, the people prosper and flourish. When they are wrong, there is an ever-widening circle of destruction.

June 13, 2018

EDITORIAL: A full, accurate accounting of Russia scandal must include Hillary Clinton

There are two sides to every coin and maybe that goes for the Russian collusion epic, too. So far we've seen only one side of that coin. The Mueller investigation goes merrily along trying to find evidence that Donald Trump conspired with Moscow malefactors to put the 2016 presidential election on ice.

June 13, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: All hail Trump

The North Korea-United States deal is a great start for total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the opening of North Korea for development of trade and the improvement of life for North Koreans ("Trump promises new era of peace after 'complete denuclearization' pledge," Web, June 12). The North Korean press hails President Trump as a great leader and praised Kim Jong-un for signing the agreement, which is described as a victory.

June 13, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No morality without religion

Commentators have noted that in the late 1940s and 1950s, guns were ubiquitous in U.S. society — from rifle teams to gun clubs to hunting before and after school. Students brought their guns to school and turned them in to their coaches. People could simply walk into a hardware store and buy a rifle. Yet there were no school shootings. What happened between then and now?

June 12, 2018

EDITORIAL: President Trump seems eager to put his faith in a knave

No one at the White House or in Foggy Bottom envies the job at hand for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo or John Bolton, the president's national-security adviser. Someone has to peel President Trump off the ceiling and bring his feet closer to earth, and they have to do it.

June 12, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Let all claimants challenge China

A series of Chinese missile systems have reappeared on a disputed island in the South China Sea, days after satellite imagery appeared to show they had been removed ("China pulls missiles from South China Sea island in possible nod to Trump," Web, June 10). China's ambitions to become Asia's undisputed regional hegemon is perhaps most evident in the South China Sea, as Beijing creates military bases along remote reefs and islands in a 1.5-million-square-mile expanse.

June 12, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Wallace belongs at MSNBC

"MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace says GOP left her: 'This Republican Party is unrecognizable to me'" (Web, June 10) takes us back 10 years to when Ms. Wallace was a communications aide on Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. The vitriol she now spews about President Trump is like the hostility she showed to Mr. McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

June 11, 2018

EDITORIAL: Happy talk on the eve of the North Korea summit is dangerous for the unwary

The happy talk coming out of Singapore will mislead the rest of the world, which hankers for something, anything, that can eliminate the nuclear sword hanging over everybody. "Jaw, jaw," in Winston Churchill's famous formulation, is better than "war, war," but happy talk, whether by Donald Trump or Kim Jong-un, can be dangerous for the unwary.

June 11, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Charles Krauthammer leaves too soon

It was with sadness that I read the announcement by Charles Krauthammer of his imminent death ("Krauthammer a classic, classy neoconservative intellectual — whether you agreed with him or not," Web, June 10). He is a man of conscience and a fighter for what he considers to be a worthy cause. With devastating logic, he has demolished the views of his opponents concerning both national and international affairs.

June 11, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump grasps the opportunity to dial back nuclear doomsday

No politician owns the exclusive rights to "hope and change." As a campaign slogan, it worked well for a moment for Barack Obama, but in hindsight it was little more than an attractive but empty phrase. He wowed the world by signing the Iran Nuclear Deal, but left the terror-friendly regime in Tehran on course to complete a doomsday arsenal. President Trump, girding himself for a nuclear summit with North Korea, promises to deal only in the hard currency of reality.

June 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Zero tolerance for filth

It is truly a national disgrace when tastelessness and moral depravity can pass for humor and the overriding residual focus is only on the reaction and response by two television networks.

June 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Colorado owes baker

Incredibly, the U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for two gay men. What would the original court ruling have been if these gay men had tried to force a Muslim bakery to bake a wedding cake for their marriage? What would the Colorado court have done? I am sure they wouldn't have touched this issue.

June 10, 2018

EDITORIAL: Mitch McConnell’s masterstroke

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is not the most charismatic, telegenic, or gripping figure to have graced the politics of the republic. His soft-spoken Southern manners tend more toward the soporific than the stimulating, and they sometimes lead his critics to underestimate him.

June 7, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Only climate cause up for debate

As is the case with all major media sources worldwide, your article regarding Department of Defense programs addressing readiness for the predicted consequences of climate change confuses the issue ("Despite sea change at White House, Pentagon steps up climate change," Web, June 3).

June 7, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Thank you, Mr. Trump

For eight years the rights of Americans were subjugated to the politically correct, ever-changing morals of the Obama administration. Absurd changes occurred, including permitting men to use women's restrooms if they were undecided about their gender on a given day. Even basic freedoms, once accorded to people of faith, were challenged. Who could forget the battle incurred on the Catholic charity Little Sisters of the Poor, as they fought President Obama's mandate to provide birth control to employees?

June 7, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump wants to return unspent appropriations, Congress trembles

It's difficult to imagine that the U.S. Government has more money than it has figured out how to spend, but President Trump wants to give back $15.4 billion of such money and Congress is unhappy about it. This money is in appropriated, but unspent, funding from earlier years.

June 6, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cancel Miss America

Enough already. I am a staunch conservative, loyal supporter of and even ambassador for The Washington Times. But why is it necessary to waste editorial space to take a swipe at women ("The new Miss America," Web, June 5)?

June 6, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Civil War over, move on

More than 100 Confederate monuments have been moved or destroyed in recent years, all due to outraged juveniles who have no understanding of why, how or even when the Civil War was fought. Yet the men who actually fought those battles, survived horrific wounds and lost dear friends, the men who should have good reason to resent monuments erected in memory of their foes, respected the soldiers of the vanquished South and even saluted them as they laid down their arms and marched home from Appomattox. It was a uniquely American end to a tragic conflict. Seventy-five years later, in July 1938, almost 2,000 surviving soldiers from both sides met as friends at Gettysburg, where President Roosevelt lit the Eternal Light Peace Monument.

June 6, 2018

EDITORIAL: Supreme Court sounds a timid defense of religious freedom

A half-baked cake may be better than no cake at all, but not much better. The Supreme Court's decision that a baker with religious convictions against it doesn't have to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding was the work of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who seems to have a schoolgirl crush on anything gay.

June 5, 2018