THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Maryland not home of lacrosse

Is it really true that "Marylanders think of their state as the spiritual homeland of lacrosse"? ("The Mohawks who made Maryland's lacrosse sticks," Web, May 13). While I certainly would not wish to take away from the fine tradition of high-level lacrosse played in Maryland since around the turn of the 20th century, anyone who thinks the state is the "spiritual homeland" of the game really knows absolutely nothing about lacrosse.

May 16, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Violence on border no ‘protest’

The media has a strange characterization of recent events on the Israeli border. Even an article in The Washington Times uses the word "protest" and the phrase "in Gaza" ("Israel faces diplomatic fallout after dozens killed in Gaza," Web, May 15). These are glaring errors.

May 16, 2018

EDITORIAL: The Saudis owe Trump one, and should open the oil tap

It's rare for the list of everyday annoyances to get shorter, not longer. But shrink the list did when the high price of oil crashed a decade or so ago, leaving Americans with a happy jingle in their pockets. Now several factors are converging to drive up the price of oil again, and motorists are feeling familiar pain in the wallet. Dread may return with every fill-up. The difference this time, though, is that the United States has new oil reserves in the Earth's fractures beneath North Dakota, and now maybe Saudi Arabia wants to be a pal.

May 15, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Prosecute Hillary now

The Washington Times reported recently that "Reynaldo Regis, 53, of Fort Washington, Maryland, searched classified databases without authorization during the time he worked as a CIA contractor He then copied the classified data into his personal notebooks he stored at his home."

May 15, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Liberation-free women’s lib

Upon reflection, the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s was more like "open season on women." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among sexually active teens between the ages of 15 and 24, one in four has a venereal disease. Many of these individuals will suffer serious life-long consequences. Do you think they feel liberated?

May 15, 2018

EDITORIAL: This year, in Jerusalem

The world did not end when President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate scheme, nor did the heavens fall when he insisted that the United States deserves a fair shake in the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement.

May 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left’s history of sabotage

Former Secretary of State John Kerry's secret meetings with Iranian officials and the connection of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton to the creation of a phony dossier may have shocked some people, but not those who know history. The progressive left has a long record of trying to undermine and sabotage the policies with which it disagrees.

May 14, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Graham should pipe down

Sen. Lindsey Graham's mock indignation over an innocuous observation by White House communications aide Kelly Sadler is worth a chuckle ("Lindsey Graham wants White House apology for Kelly Sadler's 'disgusting' John McCain remark," Web, May 13). We're a nation that is being riven by the hyper-emotional, and it's not just by a traumatized teen-ager or the usual suspects who intentionally misconstrue their opponents' remarks for a perceived advantage in the polls.

May 14, 2018

EDITORIAL: A teaching moment for Tehran, Pyongyang is at hand

Diplomats should not be confused with donkeys, but the carrot and the stick are useful tools to encourage both diplomat and donkey to do the right thing. Though a novice, President Trump has aggressively wielded these implements to deal with rogue regimes in Iran and North Korea. The sight of three Americans freed from North Korean prison returning to American soil is evidence that change, limited but real, is at hand.

May 13, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Nicholson must answer on climate

So, Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate and former Marine Kevin Nicholson "questions the "cognitive thought process" of veterans who are Democrats" ("Bipartisan veterans backlash against GOP Senate candidate," Web May 3). Mr. Nicholson recently said, of his challenger in the race: "I disagree with a thought process that leads you to vote for a Democrat like Tammy Baldwin, who doesn't take any of these issues on national security seriously."

May 13, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left trying to block good

I don't get the Democrats — or the news media that support every dirty tactic the Democrats use to block President Trump from doing his job on behalf of the American people. Networks such as CNN and MSNBC have taken their bias to an all-time low, making up stories and giving their opinions rather than reporting the news.

May 13, 2018

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump’s bold diplomacy

There was no end of gnashing of teeth and furrowing of brow when President Trump declared in December that he would honor a campaign promise, routinely made and routinely broken by several of his predecessors, to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the actual capital of Israel.

May 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sputnik wasn’t spying

"'Possibly the greatest achievement of any intelligence service'" (Web, May 8), the book review by Joseph Goulden of Monte Reel's "Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War," contained an extremely inaccurate criticism. Mr. Goulden writes that the book was "marred somewhat" because in condemning the U-2 overflights of Soviet airspace the author fails to mention the Sputnik satellite flights that began in 1957, three years before Francis Gary Powers' ill-fated U-2 mission.

May 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Maker of our own woes

That the U.S. has been subsidizing most, if not all, of its major problems is becoming more and more evident. Since the Department of Energy was created, we pay per month what we used to pay per year to heat our homes. Since the Department of Education was created, the government has spent a great fortune subsidizing ignorance and the brainwashing of students in favor of socialism. Add to this what has been paid to Iran to support global terrorism. This is either insanity or treason.

May 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A diminished ‘legacy’

With President Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the deeply flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, another significant piece of former President Obama's legacy has been removed. This follows earlier withdrawals from the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Accords. Other significant moves include removal of the "individual mandate" from Obamacare, part of the tax-reform package, approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and reduction in the size of several national monuments.

May 10, 2018

EDITORIAL: Boy Scouts of America, with declining ranks, set out to recruit girls

The Boy Scouts of America have been taught for more than a century to "Be Prepared." But the Scouts have never been prepared for this. Facing a long, steady decline in membership, since the men in charge opened the ranks to a variety of LGBTQ applicants, the organization is doubling down on what they did wrong. They're taking the Boy out of Boy Scouts.

May 9, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump diplomacy brings three Americans home from Pyongyang

Donald Trump diplomacy, which so offends delicate sensibilities in the United States and in the ministries of the West, nevertheless continues to pay rewards. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo comes home from North Korea on Thursday with three political prisoners released as a propaganda sweetener in advance of the president's talks with Kim Jong-un about suspending his nuclear weapons program.

May 9, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Schneiderman gets just desserts

So the wheel of fate has turned on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Trump hater and supposed paragon of virtue ("Eric Schneiderman's stunning fall puts aggressive anti-Trump legal agenda in jeopardy," Web, May 8). It is poetic justice that Mr. Schneiderman's resignation under dubious circumstances is playing out in the national media.

May 9, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Make German seat permanent

Richard Grenell, the new U.S. ambassador to Germany, has said Germany should have joined the military strike of the "P3" group in Syria. P3 stands for "Permanent 3," the three permanent Western members of the U.N. Security Council: The U.S., the U.K. and France.

May 9, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump’s excellent Iran move

There is nothing historic about the lunacy of President Obama's appeasement of a terrorist state ("Trump makes good on Iran threat," Web, May 8). It was a "deal" formulated in the purple haze of mullah madness by a kindred spirit who sold out American resolve. As for the limp-wristed Europe, which raised a white flag once again, they will now have to show some backbone for once in their sorry lives.

May 9, 2018