THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Race and diversity don’t count on Olympic scoreboard

If race-consciousness becomes an Olympic sport, and who can say it won't, the United States will have a lock on the gold medal. Silver and bronze, too. There's no escaping race obsession that thrives in every crevice, cleft, nook and cranny in America. A body can step on it unaware everywhere.

February 11, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Time for term limits

Watching the stone-faced Democrats sitting on their hands during President Trump's State of the Union address prompted me to conclude that their wish is for bad things to happen to the country while Mr. Trump and the Republicans are in control.

February 11, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Labs shadows of former selves

Kudos to Peter Pry for pointing out the need to clean house at the Department of Energy, and to The Washington Times for publishing his op-ed ("Dereliction of duty at the Department of Energy," Web, Feb. 7).

February 11, 2018

EDITORIAL: A right turn in Costa Rica

Costa Rica, proclaimed National Geographic magazine only last year, is "the happiest country in the world." It's certainly one of the most stable, but there's more. "Costa Ricans enjoy the pleasure of living daily life to the fullest in a place that mitigates stress and maximizes joy."

February 8, 2018

Letter to the Editor: Many unrecognized Redskins

Congratulations to former longtime Washington Redskins General Manager Bobby Beathard on his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

February 8, 2018

Letter to the Editor: In U.K., killer NHS beyond reproach

Donald Trump is sadly right about the financial bankruptcy, management chaos and appalling treatment of patients in the British National Health Service ("British officials condemn Trump remarks on U.K. health care," Web, Feb. 5). The NHS kills thousands every year due to misdiagnosis, delayed detection of cancer and failed operations.

February 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: End to gerrymandering?

In "Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map" (Web, Feb. 5), you report that the Supreme Court is considering a number of district-redrawing cases. It shouldn't have to consider any. There ought to be a law on the books, or an amendment to the Constitution, mandating a solution that ends these disputes permanently.

February 7, 2018

EDITORIAL: British scientists find that sandwiches contribute to global warming

A judge in New York, where irreverence of everything is prized, once suggested that the grand jury system for bringing criminal indictments be abolished because district attorneys with a gift of glib gab can easily persuade grand jurors to "indict a ham sandwich."

February 7, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Group supports free expression

At the Open Society Foundations, we believe in recycling. But we were admittedly surprised to see how deeply The Washington Times apparently believes in it, too. How else to explain Rebecca Hagelin's Feb. 4 piece, "Disruption at home and abroad — follow the money: Part 1" (Web), which is built entirely on tired talking points about paid protesters that have been thoroughly debunked by multiple fact-checking outlets.

February 7, 2018

EDITORIAL: The market is spooked by foolish inflation fears

What triggered the 2,000-point Dow Jones Industrials index sell-off on Friday and Monday was the positive jobs report. That's correct. Positive. Not only did employers hire 200,000 more workers during January, but the pay of the average worker rose by 3 percent after inflation. This was the biggest gain in wages in a decade. The labor market tightens.

February 6, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Memo shows left’s malfeasance

You have to hand it to the Democrats for throwing another wrench in the works regarding the memo from the GOP, which shows wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton and her supporters at the top of the FBI and Justice Department.

February 6, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump restoring balance

We need sane voices of all political parties balancing and checking each other so we don't sway to extremes. Now through 2020, after we've seen the benefits of tax cuts, the explosion of employment in America and 401(k)s prospering thanks to a soaring stock market (predicted by Democrats to crash if Donald Trump was elected), we will see campaign ads showing that not one Democrat voted for these positive changes.

February 6, 2018

EDITORIAL: A precise census of the swamp is needed before draining

Every time there's a threat of a government shutdown, a threat once rare but now not so rare, there's a discussion of who is so important that he is declared "essential" and who must show up for work, anyway.

February 5, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left trying to pull the wool

The frantic statements by Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning media pushing back on the Nunes memo is evidence of a mind-boggling effort to deceive the American people. The left talks about invented motives, saying the memo was fabricated to remove scrutiny from President Trump. But it is the left that is lying.

February 5, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: End the VA and its animal torture

Why does the government have to perform the same research experiments over and over, for 40 years or more, getting the same conclusions at the cost of billions of dollars ("Curbing the use of canine guinea pigs," Web, Jan. 31)? And how many painful deaths must their animal subjects suffer?

February 5, 2018

EDITORIAL: Big talk at City Hall isn’t likely to replace oil, natural gas and coal

The civic shakedown of the oil and gas producers continues, and the frenzy has spread to California. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York started it in January when he said he would seek billions of dollars in reparations from five major companies, including Exxon, BP and Chevron.

February 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: GOP holds power to stop spiral

The Ninth Amendment reads, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The amendment's numerical precedence gives it primacy over the 10th Amendment. This flows from the clearly stated intent of the Framers to keep the ultimate political power in the hands of the people.

February 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bankrupt refiner made missteps

The oil industry's campaign to undermine the growth of domestically produced renewable fuels such as ethanol has certainly been ramped up lately. Today they're callously capitalizing on the financial woes of one of the oldest and least efficient refineries in the country, holding it up as a poster child to undermine public support for the nation's renewable fuel policy. Peter Weyrich apparently drank the Kool-Aid and is also blaming the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for Philadelphia Energy Solutions' troubles ("Securing American energy dominance," Web, Jan. 31).

February 4, 2018

EDITORIAL: Congressional Republicans in flight

Not so long ago the conventional capital wisdom, retailed wholesale by the pundit class, held that all that was necessary to replace the Republican Congress with a large, left-thinking Democratic Congress bent on revenge, was to count the votes. The liberal landslide was on the way.

February 1, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left’s comeuppance?

For the first 30 years of my life, I was a proud registered Democrat, following in the footsteps of my mother and my father, a steel worker and card-carrying union member. Our family was very conservative and traditional, as were most of the people in our small, heavily Republican town in southeastern Pennsylvania.

February 1, 2018