THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Concealed carry reciprocity would make America safer

The right to self-defense is fundamental to a free people. So says the Second Amendment, and Americans hearing it loud and clear are the proud owners of guns enough to arm nearly every man, woman and child. When ne'er-do-wells turn their weapons against the innocent, it's responsibly armed citizens who must provide defense in the absence of the police. That's why rules that force concealed carry permit holders to leave their firearms at home when they travel are foolish rules. Congress must finish the job of empowering the good and responsible man and woman with a gun.

December 5, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Real meaning of ‘white Christmas’

There are two things we might want to think about this holiday season: a "white" Christmas and the coming of Santa Claus. A "white" Christmas is not about snow. It's about spiritual purity at the second coming of Jesus Christ, which Santa's coming represents. Santa's red clothing represents the blood Jesus shed for our sins, which only He can make "white." Where the Christmas favorite "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" says "He knows if you've been bad or good ... you better watch out," it's talking about our spiritual condition. God knows where we have all fallen short of His glory.

December 5, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Freed killer will just return

It is marvelous that killer and illegal alien Jose Zarate was not convicted of murder because, of course, his victim, Kate Steinle, was merely was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

December 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Supreme Court listens for voice of a wedding cake

Nowhere on the left end of the political spectrum is the call for "tolerance" more deceitful than among the organized sexually confused. Tolerance, Jonathan Capehart, a gay (but not very cheerful) editorial writer for The Washington Post, tells a television interviewer, should not be a two-way street. "It's a one-way street." Tolerance for me, but not for you.

December 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: Robert Mueller investigation hasn’t delivered much of anything

The world customarily slows down in December — except at the mall — to gather itself for a new year. But 2017 has not been a typical year. The world is upside down, turned inside out and spinning like a child's top. The centerpiece of the clown show is the relentless Democratic campaign to bring Donald Trump's presidency to ruin. The destruction of Michael Flynn is little more than collateral damage.

December 4, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Agency misuse needs better look

In many Third World nations, a change in government leadership usually brings about criminal investigations of the past leaders. This is done to prevent the previous leadership from returning to power, or at least to make it much more difficult for it to do so. However, in examining the Obama administration's misuse of the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and God knows which other government agencies, it is clear that a thorough investigation by an impartial team is necessary. The misuse of government agencies was so bad and so exceptional that "forgive and forget" should not be an option.

December 4, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Predatory women harm all women

At last someone has acknowledged that the predator game works two ways ("When the prey becomes the predator," Web, Nov. 30). I am proud of all the women who had guts to out their predators — whether the predator was Matt Lauer, John Conyers, Al Franken or someone none of us knows. It is ugly beyond words that these women were treated like sex toys and that they feared losing their jobs if they complained. Their workplaces were toxic.

December 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: Jury’s verdict in Kate Steinle case shows danger of sanctuary cities

The San Francisco jury that would not recognize Jose Garcia Zarate as guilty of the murder of Kate Steinle not only mocked simple justice, but further identified San Francisco as a city exiled from the American mainstream, and intensified the debate on whether like-minded cities and counties can declare themselves outside the laws that govern everyone else.

December 3, 2017

EDITORIAL: FBI has opened an investigation into the antifa movement

The antifa movement has had a free ride in American public opinion since its hooligans first came to public notice in the riots at the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va.

December 3, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Too much Twitter?

The old World-War-II-era posters with the warning "Loose Lips Sink Ships" may need to be updated given Twitter and the various forms of "social" media that abound. This is especially true for politicians.

December 3, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left’s utter ‘free speech’ hypocrisy

The irony of free speech in the current political environment certainly hits home with two recent Times articles. A speaker delivered a talk titled "It's OK to Be White" on the University of Connecticut campus was booed, harassed and had his notes taken from the lectern ("Conservative speaker arrested at UConn after fight at 'It's OK To Be White' speech," Web, Nov. 28). Later the speaker, Lucian Wintrich was arrested for a breach of peace.

December 3, 2017

EDITORIAL: Socialist experiment has made misery in Venezuela

Not so long ago Venezuela, which stumbles along as if on a national breadline, was the wealthiest country in Latin America. And why not? It has the world's largest proven oil reserves and abundant fertile farmland. Its governmental institutions were once efficient and largely free of corruption. With a few good funerals, times could be good again.

November 30, 2017

EDITORIAL: Following the Pence Rule could have saved some politicians a lot of grief

That's Vice President Mike Pence getting the last laugh in the wake of the torrent of sexual-misconduct charges against Washington politicians, journalists and entertainment industry titans who are suddenly not so titanic.

November 30, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reform Mauritania now

The United Nations sets aside Dec. 2 as its International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. From sweatshops and prison labor, to trafficked women and men forced into unpaid work or prostitution, some 40 million people around the world are held in horrific conditions. But if there's an open sore, it's Mauritania in West Africa.

November 30, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reaping fruits of sexual revolution

Why is anyone surprised to learn that in our present social climate there is and has been for the past 40 years rampant sexual improprieties and assaults against women ("The return of virtue," Web, Nov. 29)? We are reaping the rotten fruits of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s, during which the "Free Love" movement erased modesty and respect for women. The fairer sex became fair play and stigmas were removed from the exploits of amorous behavior. The #MeToo hashtag is a joke. I doubt there is a woman alive who has never experienced a sexual impropriety in her lifetime.

November 30, 2017

EDITORIAL: Society should beware of automation, machines

Human progress is bound only by the limits of human imagination, and the boundaries are disappearing at warp speed. Information technology is lending an invisible hand to major sectors of human activity, and robots are muscling in on the rest. Whether it's all, or just mostly, to the good is a subject for ethicists, philosophers and theologians. For everyone else, the challenge is simply how to adjust.

November 29, 2017

EDITORIAL: Sorting out sex is not easy for the earnestly politically correct

Some of our "genders" are out of control. It was never like this when everyone had not a gender, but a "sex," for better or worse. Anyone confused about which could look at a driver's license, or a student ID, and there it was, in black and white. But this was not good enough for the arbiters of political correctness.

November 29, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Social Security, the Hill’s elephant

In an otherwise strong and credible call to arms on the risk of congressional Republicans walking away from the Budget Control Act, Stephen Moore and Andrew Wofford devote only one line to the matter of Social Security ("Testing Republican spending restraint," Web, Nov. 13). The authors abruptly dismiss the topic, stating that benefits should be exempt. This is unfortunate and requires greater justification.

November 29, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Citizenship first, party second

Politicians have always sparred with their opponents, yet in the Trump era, have we reached a tipping point? Due to the politics of character assassination, we are losing the ability to discuss issues and policies. Should we not be Americans first, then Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives, second?

November 29, 2017

EDITORIAL: North Korea’s test demonstrates Kim Jong-un’s ability ‘to hit anywhere in the world’

Another day, another provocation, and another launch from North Korea's den of nuclear iniquity. But the launch Tuesday of a long-range missile, sans nuclear tip, is particularly sinister.

November 28, 2017