THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cut waste for better tax plan

The Republican tax plan may provide relief for low-income families and the very wealthy, but people in the middle are going to be squeezed. The plan proposes eliminating deductions for medical expenses, adoption, replacement of property damage from disasters and student loan payments. New limits will be placed on deductions for retirement savings, mortgage interest, property tax and state and local income-tax payments. For many people, these are kitchen-table issues.

November 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: Harry Reid’s nuclear option releases flood of new appeals judges

Dams are breaking all over town. Donna Brazile's new book, "Hacks," has broken the dam that has been holding back a flood of insider stuff about how the Democratic National Committee smoothed the way for Hillary Clinton to win the party's presidential nomination last year.

November 6, 2017

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump demonstrates that U.S. is dominant global force

"I came, I saw, I conferred," may not match Julius Caesar's historic description of his foreign adventure, but President Trump's 12-day Asia trip is meant to conquer doubts that the United States is still the power to be reckoned with across the Pacific (and everywhere else). When disruptive forces test traditional regional alliances, over issues of trade, free passage on the open sea and the denuclearization of the rogue regime in North Korea, the United States is the indispensable bridge over troubled waters.

November 6, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton can’t be trusted

Political strategist Donna Brazile said recently she was shocked when she learned Hillary Clinton had co-opted the entire Democratic National Committee and rigged the primaries against Sen. Bernard Sanders.

November 6, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Science could help stop shootings

Brain analysis, rather than more gun laws or more guns, may be a better path toward reducing the incidence of mindless mass killings occurring across the nation.

November 6, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Judicial activism can be dangerous

U.S. District Court Judge Collen Kollar-Kottelly has engaged in judicial activism ("US court bars Trump from reversing transgender troops policy," Web, Oct. 30). The president has broad discretion in the area of national security. President Trump issued an executive order placing a moratorium on transgender military service based on his determinations regarding national security. Judge Kollar-Kottelly overturned major portions of it.

November 5, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Liberals misplace their sympathies

Liberal talking heads Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews recently vented their righteous indignation about President Trump's "death penalty" tweets regarding the Islamic State terrorist murders in New York City.

November 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Harassment stories have become all the rage

The Frenchman has had the reputation since forever, earned or not, of being the sexiest dude on the planet. Ooo la la, and all that. Who knew the Americans, traditionally regarded as unschooled in the arts of seduction, would challenge Gallic supremacy in these arts?

November 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Issues have divided nation before

If we were to believe the mainstream pundits, that the slander and calumny that passes for debate about politics and the slovenly popular culture is something new, we might think that nothing like this ever happened before.

November 5, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Release jailed veterans who did duty

A few years ago I made a friend through your paper. After I started writing letters to The Washington Times, a woman in California contacted me and told how much she enjoyed what I wrote. We've been friends ever since. As a 100-percent disabled combat Marine Vietnam veteran and former law-enforcement officer, I've always written from experience and knowledge, which prompted my friend's first contact.

November 2, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Time for a new party

It's time to get rid of the old establishment Republicans and start a new political party in America. If the new Tea Party, evangelicals and all other groups that want to abide by the Constitution could be combined into a new political party like in 1854 when the Republican Party replaced the Whig Party, it would be unstoppable.

November 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: Devout Muslims feel pain after terrorist attacks

Confederate soldiers shrieked the rebel yell at Gettysburg, American paratroopers cried "Geronimo!" when they jumped into France on D-Day, and radical Muslim terrorists cry "Allahu akbar" when they kill innocents on the streets of America. Whether meant to calm nerves or strike fear in the hearts of opponents, the cries become a signature, sometimes a cry of bravery and heroism, but sometimes a cry of cowardly revenge.

November 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: Ralph Northam ad roils campaign

Desperation can make men who say they want to be good do bad things. Ralph Northam, the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, had been leading Ed Gillespie, the Republican, for months. His election was a lock. Everybody told him so.

November 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: Decline of common language threatens way Americans communicate

It's natural to feel out of place in a strange land. But Americans can sometimes feel that way in their own land. The comfortable bonds of a common culture are weakening as the pace of migration quickens, and with rapidly shifting social currents goes the fundamental means of communicating in a shared language. A common language is the glue that holds a culture together. The familiar sound of English is fading in some quarters even as it spreads across the planet.

November 1, 2017

EDITORIAL: Prospective immigrants deserve something better than a lottery ticket

"You can't win if you don't play" is the slogan pitched to prospective buyers of lottery tickets, some of whom are put off by the observation of certain mathematicians that your chances of winning the lottery are about the same whether you buy a ticket or not. Prospective immigrants waiting to get into the United States deserve something better than a lottery ticket.

November 1, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Robert E. Lee, George Washington worthy of respect

Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, removed plaque memorials for President George Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Why? Because Washington owned slaves and Lee fought for the Confederacy.

November 1, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Today’s sailors hardworking, too

In "Iron ships and girly men" (Web. Oct. 29) Gary Anderson baselessly attacks the young men and women manning the ships of the U.S. Navy, drawing wrongheaded conclusions about the caliber of sailors being produced by the Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.

November 1, 2017

EDITORIAL: If Republicans stumble on tax reform, nation will pay for it

As the Republicans take their mark in the tax overhaul race, the obstacle is not the clock but the mischief of the naysayers who are eager to tie the reformers' shoelaces together. That would stop the race if not the clock. With the nation's prosperity on the line, everything is at stake for both special interests and ordinary Americans.

October 31, 2017

EDITORIAL: Justice needed in Kate Steinle case

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who was arrested two years ago for killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle, out on an evening stroll with her father on the San Francisco waterfront, finally went on trial for murder last week. Mr. Zarate, a career criminal, is something of an illegal-immigration artist. He had been deported five times.

October 31, 2017

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: George Washington and Robert E. Lee worthy of honor

The recent decision of Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., to remove plaques honoring President George Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee ("Christ Church and the slavers' blood money," Web, Oct. 29) illustrates well the current trend in America of ignorance catering to political correctness with no regard for truth. And what is the truth?

October 31, 2017