THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Bedfellows in Utah

Two high-ranking Utah Republicans in the Beehive State apparently have unlikely bees in their bonnets.

February 27, 2018

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Agreement contributed to atrocity

In the aftermath of the Florida school shooting, none of the diatribes about the evil of guns has elicited sensible discussion about or investigation into real preventive measures.

February 27, 2018

EDITORIAL: Free speech is sometimes a thorn in every government’s side

History, Henry Ford famously said, "is bunk." He might more accurately have said that history is not bunk, but a lot of interpretations of history are. Both winners and losers of the world's wars have been guilty of twisting reality.

February 26, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Drones the answer?

Some college campuses and public schools use surveillance drones to enhance school security. Perhaps it's time to deploy weaponized surveillance drones to protect our schools.

February 26, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Help Ukraine now

President Donald Trump must rebuke Russian President Vladimir Putin for election interference and global aggression after the news of the 13 indictments ("Feds charge 13 Russians with meddling in 2016 election," Web, Feb. 16). Mr. Trump was telling the truth all along. His Democratic accusers lose big.

February 26, 2018

EDITORIAL: ‘The gentlemen of the press’ melt under vicious attack by right-wing meanies

Once upon a time in a land now far away, newspapermen — this was before they promoted themselves to "journalists" — relished mixing it up with their critics.

February 25, 2018

EDITORIAL: We’re out of our minds looking for things to be outraged about

The times, they are a terror. Robert Mueller needs suspects in his pursuit of collaborators with the Russians, so he's recycling suspects he had already indicted once. Patriots in Seattle, terrified that Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart, if not Marse Robert himself, have been raiding on Puget Sound, and settled on the flag of Norway as an object of contempt when the familiar Confederate battle flag was not available.

February 25, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Anti-gun students puppets of left

I'm 19 years old and strongly disagree with the current student gun-control movement. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting last week that took 17 lives, there have been many young students who have made their voices heard on the issue of gun control, specifically the ban on AR-15 rifles. As well-intentioned as these students may be, I think they are making a huge mistake pushing for more gun control. Unfortunately, anyone who expresses an opposing opinion is typically branded "insensitive" by the media.

February 25, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Southern’ issues are nonsense

The United States spent eight suffering years under the boot of our first Marxist president. Maybe our local lightweight politicians wish to focus on sowing the continuance in this cultural and racial divide ("Is Maryland ready to rid 'Northern scum' from state song?" Web, Feb. 16). They may well tread on dangerous ground.

February 25, 2018

EDITORIAL: North Korea blinks

Sometimes what doesn't happen is the telling clue to what's actually going on, like Sherlock Holmes' "dog that didn't bark." Consider the case of the meeting between Washington and Pyongyang that didn't happen at the Blue House in Seoul.

February 22, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Perpetuating ‘the enduring myth’

It pains me to see that Rabbi Menachem Levine perpetuates what renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt calls balderdash and "the enduring myth" that Poles were worse than Nazis ("Why Poland's new Holocaust law is a mockery," Web, Feb. 20).

February 22, 2018

EDITORIAL: Billy Graham was rightly called the towering figure of Christian evangelism

Spreading the good news of the Gospel was Christ's great commission for his church, and in Christian teaching the commission was meant for every believer. The Gospel according to Matthew tells that upon His resurrection Christ gathered his disciples and said:

February 21, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left, not gun owners, to blame

The Red Chinese, North Korea and the USSR have been or were aware for decades that the only way to enslave a population was to disarm them. They also knew that a nation could be controlled through its youth. Add to these philosophical ideas the socialist doctrine that any means necessary can and should be used to achieve a desired end goal, and you have the main ingredients for why the United States is in such turmoil in 2018.

February 21, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Guns defend against evil regimes

In the 20th century, socialist nations murdered some 200 million unarmed citizens (some 800 citizens daily in the Soviet Union over 72 years, and over 5,000 daily in Mao's China over 27 years). Hitler made it illegal for Jews to own guns.

February 21, 2018

Billy Graham, famed evangelist, has died at age 99: Report

The Rev. Billy Graham, an itinerant Southern tent revivalist who became the foremost evangelist in the world, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more people than any other man in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.

February 21, 2018

EDITORIAL: Obsession with Russia diverts attention from more important scandals

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, but without the exclamation points. Indeed, they're already here. Robert Mueller announced another indictment Tuesday, this time of a Dutchman, but he has a Russian wife, which counts for something in the fear index. Mr. Mueller was expected to haul in at least a tuna by now, and so far has landed only minnows. But there's no doubt more to come.

February 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Stop arguing, start protecting

We are all wrestling with the tragedy and evil that came to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week. As a citizen and parent, I'd ask our leaders in the school system to focus on reality, not on theory or wishes. In the childlike part of our souls, most of us would love to live in a world without evil, but that is not the world in which we live.

February 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Legislators must act on guns now

As a retired school superintendent and former high-school principal, I was sickened by the images from the school shooting in Florida last week. As we all retreat into our respective positions regarding guns in America, I pose one question: Is change needed or do we accept the periodic slaughter of our fellow citizens? When we are unable to act on the most obvious of problems, we should never be expected to respond to more complex challenges.

February 20, 2018

EDITORIAL: Mueller’s Alex van der Zwaan indictment a distraction

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, but without the exclamation points. Indeed, they're already here.

February 20, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: New gun laws mean fewer rights

Before we pass any new gun laws there are a few questions to be answered. Which crimes have the already-passed gun laws stopped and which crimes will the new laws stop? What will we do differently to enforce these new laws?

February 19, 2018