THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Cryptocurrency not a great alternative to greenbacks

There was a time when "a penny saved is a penny earned" was all anyone needed to know about money. That is so 20th century.

January 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Don’t believe everything you hear

By any measure, most everything connected to the economy was in a downward trend during the last years of the Obama presidency. So when the mainstream media and the Democratic leadership tell you that any good news you hear about the stock market, the economy and outlook for the country is due to President Obama's policies having just started to work, don't believe them.

January 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reason for anti-Trump digging

Many who opposed Donald Trump winning the last election took some solace when they suddenly heard about the "deep-state" and "shadow government," and President Obama buying a house near the White House with his close confidante Valerie Jarrett. They thought somehow this could keep the Trump administration within the guidelines of law and civility and stop the new president from doing things they didn't want him to do.

January 8, 2018

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump reluctantly pulls the plug on the search for illegal voters

Democrats, other liberal activists and even one of its own appointed members cheered the demise last week of Donald Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. The cheers may be premature.

January 8, 2018

EDITORIAL: Snow and ice is what we should expect from global warming

The brutal cold weather making everybody miserable almost everywhere -- the mercury has fallen to the low 70s even in Southern California and into the low 60s in Miami. It has to be blamed on something or somebody, so why not blame it on global warming?

January 7, 2018

EDITORIAL: Washington rolls out new weapon in war on rats

Neither man nor rat gives quarter in their ancient war on each other. Neither side takes prisoners, and after all these years there's no winner, though rats have survived. The District of Columbia, which has rats aplenty, is deploying a new and lethal weapon with the hope that springs eternal.

January 7, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Transgendering’ is the annihilator

According to the recent article "Media now resorts to extreme narrative: Trump's 'insane'" (Web, Jan. 3), Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, recently cited an MSNBC report that claimed President Trump's "profound sexual and masculine insecurities are literally threatening to annihilate the planet."

January 7, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Doubting agencies is security risk

President Trump continues to believe Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments, and he continues to question U.S. intelligence agencies' analysis of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Naturally, he does not want the validity of his election questioned, but his criticism of our intelligence agencies and the FBI poses a risk to national security.

January 7, 2018

EDITORIAL: Prospects of a Dow 25,000 is the source of the soaring optimism at hand

A Dow 25,000 was the stuff of fevered fantasy, difficult for the most enthusiastic fan of Donald Trump to imagine on the eve of his inauguration. The Dow was bumping "only" 18,500 on Election Day 2016. But here we are, one year on, and a Dow 25,000 looks to be on the horizon.

January 4, 2018

EDITORIAL: More tales of nonsense, jealousy and mayhem at the White House

Washington is a circus with many rings. If you're bored with Robert Mueller's pursuit of Donald Trump's Russian friends, which doesn't appear to be going anywhere, there's always a new chapter in the president's verbal duel with Rocket Man in North Korea.

January 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Team’ mentality wastes time

Today gives lesson to the warning of the Founding Fathers and George Washington's farewell address about the danger of factions (now known as political parties and caucuses). The Founders saw factions as oriented for dominance and power over other factions, which would result in public division, distraction from good governance and general public unhappiness.

January 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner bad for Donald Trump

That the ubiquitous former Trump adviser Steve Bannon believes Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner are idiots is hardly surprising. But they hardly redeem Bannon for his lack of character assessment in the Judge Roy Moore affair. Donald Trump Jr. and Kushner are silly, pompous nincompoops who are godsends to Saturday Night Live. They are a couple of empty Armani suits, overindulged by a president who should know better.

January 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Say no to inaugural ‘freebies’

"Corporate interests cut checks to fund governor's inaugural" (Web, Dec. 23) quotes a spokeswoman for Virginia Governor-elect Ralph Northam as saying that this month's inauguration is not a political event, but a celebration to bring all Virginians together — thus justifying large "donations" to the inaugural committee from corporate and business interests. This is absolute garbage.

January 3, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Winston Churchill saved the modern era

From my perspective of 80 years, "Darkest Hour" is the most important film ever made. It shows clearly why British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was Time's "Man of the Century." Against the opposition of the leaders of his own Conservative Party, the members of his Cabinet and the Labor and Liberal parties, Churchill refused to negotiate with Hitler after the surrender of the French — even with most of the British army trapped at Dunkirk. The film depicts the wonderful words Churchill used to win Parliament's consent to fight alone against Hitler.

January 3, 2018

EDITORIAL: ‘Choose Life’ license plates, abortion clinic debate

Abortion mills are going out of business across a wide swath of the heartland. Kentucky has only one left, and the Republican governor, Matt Bevin, is trying to close it.

January 3, 2018

EDITORIAL: Steve Bannon a fly in Trump White House ointment

The Democrats are supposed to be the fighting party, preferring a brawl to a tea party.

January 3, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Try new resolution: kindness

With the new year upon us, many people are thinking about resolutions. Some common ones are to lose weight, exercise more, eat healthily or find balance and simplicity in daily life. But what if we all made a resolution to practice more love and kindness toward everyone, including ourselves?

January 2, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Repealing mandate fixes little

Repealing the Obamacare insurance mandate does not restore personal freedoms lost with Obamacare rationing. Rationing means government not reducing, but rather refusing to pay costs. Bureaucrats now have tools to control chronically ill, elderly and disabled people.

January 2, 2018

EDITORIAL: Orrin Hatch retires, guessing begins

Retirement fever is contagious. Orrin Hatch of Utah is the latest to say he's leaving the U.S. Senate, and the Republicans and the nation will miss him on Capitol Hill.

January 2, 2018

EDITORIAL: Rallying to the willing protesters in Iran

This is the second round of violent protests by Iranians against their government for suppressing their rights and attempts to enjoy those rights. Barack Obama didn't have much sympathy for the protests against the government suppression of voters in a national election in 2009.

January 2, 2018