THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Victim deserves apologies

On June 22, 2016, The Washington Times ran a scathing piece on racist, anti-refugee sentiment in Idaho ("Story of Syrian migrants gang-raping Idaho girl embellished by anti-refugee movement: Authorities," Web). The article was short on facts and made it seem that people were lying and making things up about poor, disenfranchised refugees purely out of hate. Yet the five-year-old girl in question wasn't just "touched." She was raped, pushed, slapped, punched and urinated on. The young boys who did it (ages 9, 10 and 14) laughed and danced around her as she lay there terrified. They even filmed the entire situation. It was only by the grace of God that an off-duty nurse wandered into the laundry room to stop this abuse.

May 11, 2017

EDITORIAL: When government waste is radioactive

Government waste is bad; radioactive government waste is badder. Billions of dollars were spent on a nuclear-waste repository in Nevada and it sits abandoned. President Trump should cut out the regulatory obstruction and redeem one of the most embarrassing boondoggles ever, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.

May 11, 2017

EDITORIAL: Unrealistic minimum wages and maximum grief

The continuing increases in the minimum wage is curdling the cream in the coffee at many restaurants, and nowhere more than in New York City, the nation's top town for a variety of good eats. A $2 minimum wage increase to $11 became effective at the end of 2016, and the impact on restaurants, just now emerging, has been startling.

May 11, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Comey booting overdue

President Trump should be commended for his firing of FBI Director James Comey. It was obvious to anyone paying attention that Mr. Comey had further compromised the FBI during the Obama era by politicizing it with his exoneration of Hillary Clinton. And then when he tried to "set the record straight" just 10 days before the presidential election, he only exacerbated matters.

May 10, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Health care not just political game

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a total disaster, but when it comes to health care both parties would do well to keep the American working class in mind. From what I have seen in my experience working in human services, those who are legitimately down on their luck and truly need health care do not receive it. Obamacare essentially provides coverage for the healthy. However, this coverage is unaffordable for those most vulnerable, and contributes to the dissolution of American families.

May 10, 2017

EDITORIAL: ‘Groundhog Day’ in South Korea

With electing a new president, South Korea has fallen into a familiar pattern that promises to revive a governing philosophy of years past. Unfortunately it's a philosophy that failed in previous attempts to deal successfully in the one area crucial to the survival of the nation, resolving the long-standing internecine conflict on the Korean Peninsula. The menace from a nuclear North Korea is likely to persist with no end in sight.

May 10, 2017

EDITORIAL: Gathering of the mob

The sky is falling, or it soon will be. That's the verdict of the chattering class in Washington, where making smoke, sometimes without a fire, is the leading industry. The sacking of James Comey, the director of the FBI, has put the cat among the pigeons, and they rarely fly in tight formation.

May 10, 2017

EDITORIAL: Travel for the brave and foolish

Travel can be broadening, but in certain places it can turn out to be confining, too. Travel to North Korea, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is particularly dangerous for tourists who don't pay close attention to the rules.

May 9, 2017

EDITORIAL: The Russia-Rice mashup

Spending other people's money is the favorite pastime in Washington, but taking up the magnifying glass to follow the trail of mischief-makers, real and imagined, is a close second. The trail of Russian collusion, if any, with associates of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election has gone stone cold, but the investigation of the suspected Obama administration spying on the Trump team continues to turn up evidence. The trail is leading uncomfortably close to home.

May 9, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let losers lament

In the immediate aftermath of the most devastating loss in 240 years of presidential politics (a loss where the inevitable was trounced by the deplorable) Hillary Clinton went for a prolonged sojourn in the woods around her home, the same home where a private email server rested peacefully in her basement for years, gathering dust and state secrets.

May 9, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Whither goest France?

The presidential election in France highlights the recent shift from a Europe of patriarchal nation states to an open border and a criminally tolerant, matriarchal form of government. This shift to matriarchy gained dominance following one of history's deadliest periods in humankind, one which ended in the slaughter of 50 million Europeans during World War II. Currently matriarchal rule supports open-border immigration, government nanny-state policies and social feminism.

May 9, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More cleaning to be done

It seems the American people must come to the aid of our country again by helping President Trump clean the "swamp" -- beginning with the Republican Party. Now that it is glaringly clear that the RINOs are the plug holding up progress, House Speaker Paul Ryan needs to be removed and replaced with someone loyal to the people and our president. And in the next election, we must target the obstructionist leeches.

May 8, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop funding tyranny

Political correctness has become a vehicle for violent censorship on colleges campuses ("The Method to PC Madness," Web, April 30.) At first, college students feigned fear to obtain "safe spaces" to prevent being exposed to opposing views. However, of late they have changed tactics. Now they choose to silence those contrary views through violent censorship.

May 8, 2017

EDITORIAL: And can’t we get a laugh?

There was a time, and not so long ago, when the conversation at the water cooler got no more heated than a discussion of how sharp or disappointing the previous night's episode of "Seinfeld." Jerry Seinfeld now complains bitterly that hypersensitivity spawned by political correctness is killing comedy.

May 8, 2017

EDITORIAL: When protest becomes a laugh riot

Demonstrators angered that Americans have turned their backs on the liberal-left agenda are trading earnest discussion for angry rhetoric, and sometimes violence. When protests break the law, ruffians who fancy themselves above the law are surprised to find themselves treated like common criminals. Democratic societies traditionally show a degree of tolerance for the excesses of political conflict, but patience is running out and the system is striking back.

May 8, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MoneyGram merger on up-and-up

Your recently published editorial, "A Wary Eye on China (Web, May 1) repeats false and baseless allegations about Ant Financial's proposed merger with MoneyGram. Ant Financial is a private, entrepreneurial global technology company dedicated to serving underbanked consumers globally. This transformational combination will grow MoneyGram's business and create jobs in America.

May 7, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump must battle BAT

As a delegate, member of the Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee to Trump for President, and ardent supporter of President Trump, I'm enthused by his bold vision for a simplified, yet pro-growth tax-reform plan. But he must not allow his proposal to become poisoned in Congress by a Border Adjustment Tax (BAT).

May 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: The unfriendly skies

America's airlines have their faults, but they can't be accused of discrimination. All passengers are treated the same, reduced to cargo, and the beauty part is that the cargo is self-loaded.

May 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: A first bite of an apple

The eagerly anticipated presidential executive order to make it easier for churches and pastors to participate in election campaigns falls short of what many religious conservatives, many of whom supported Donald Trump for president, hoped for. Mr. Trump signed it with considerable Rose Garden ruffles and flourishes, but many of his friends called it "disappointingly vague" or at best "just the first bite at the apple, not the last."

May 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: Waking up the Dreamers

"True immigration reform," said the Federation for American Immigration Reform just three weeks after Donald Trump was dispatched to the Oval Office, "must begin with the recognition that our policies exist to serve and protect the vital interests of the American people."

May 4, 2017