THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Defund killers of preborn

The Catholics for Choice full-page ad supporting taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, an organization which profits from killing the preborn and selling their organs, is misleading on several points (A5, April 26).

April 27, 2017

EDITORIAL: Pigs on patrol

The noble pig is the most maligned animal of forest and barnyard. The pig sometimes wallows in mud but since he doesn't sweat that's the only way he can keep cool when the weather turns warm (and then hot). Pigs actually make good pets. Pigs can be housebroken — not easily, but it can be done — and they're peaceable and friendly.

April 27, 2017

EDITORIAL: President Trump’s tax reform

President Trump presented his eagerly anticipated tax-reform scheme Wednesday and the reviews were, as expected, mixed but hopeful.

April 26, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The group it’s OK to hate

Irrespective of his personal conduct, Bill O'Reilly's firing reflects the triumph of political correctness and the unfettered power of allegations of sexual misconduct to eliminate straight white males from positions of power and influence ("The high price of Fox hunting," Web, April 20). To Wesley Pruden's insightful analysis, I would add "diversity" as a potent part of the progressive left's arsenal to deny educational opportunities and employment to straight white males and move them to the margins of society while simultaneously privileging all who fall under the "diversity" umbrella.

April 26, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Government to the rescue

It is fair to conclude that the political left regards all matters as the domain of government — an "enlightened" government run by them. Family, faith and freedom are seen as threats to government control, and thus must be undermined.

April 26, 2017

EDITORIAL: The Russian riddle

News is not called news for nothing. Terror attacks, cruise missile strikes, nuclear provocation -- it all adds up to the headlines of today burying the headlines of yesterday. That's why it's essential to circle back to one story that must not be forgotten, the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Inquiring minds want to know whether the political mischief, if any, was cause or effect.

April 26, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Scalpel, not hatchet fixes voter rolls

In a recent editorial, The Washington Times urges the League of Women Voters and Common Cause to join an effort by Judicial Watch to remove voters from the registration rolls in Montgomery County, Maryland ("Preserving voting rights in Maryland," April 23). Based on our knowledge of Maryland's voter-registration system, we cannot support this misguided effort.

April 25, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Help or get out

House Speaker Paul Ryan has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. Prior to becoming speaker in October, 2015, Mr. Ryan served on the House Ways and Means Committee as well as on the House Budget Committee. With all of this experience, why didn't he have a health-care bill ready? Why didn't he have a budget bill? A tax-reform bill?

April 25, 2017

EDITORIAL: Getting serious about North Korea

President Trump has called the entire U.S. Senate to the White House Wednesday for a rare top-level briefing on what's going on with "the crazy fat kid" in North Korea. The president will have all hands on deck and he expects 100 senators to be there. They'll be greeted by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

April 25, 2017

EDITORIAL: A barrier to the wall

The U.S. government just dodged a headlong run into a wall. Democrats threatened to vote against an interim budget deal if President Trump includes a down payment on a wall on the southern border. It's a mark of the lengths politicians of the liberal persuasion will go to destroy the Trump presidency. National security is held hostage in a high-stakes game of chicken.

April 25, 2017

EDITORIAL: Riding the tiger

"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount," a Chinese proverb cautions the unwary. That's where the Democrats, flailing in a search for a way out of the wilderness, find themselves in their warm embrace of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

April 24, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP, speak up on costs

The Republican Party is failing to articulate key facts, primarily financial, affecting proposed and operative major legislation. This is akin to a bank failing to inform a customer that a credit card has been maxed out.

April 24, 2017

EDITORIAL: Addicted to uranium

When gentlemen compete, they honor the rules of the game and accept the referee's calls. But no one would mistake the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran for gentlemen, and their gamesmanship in pursuing nuclear weapons is deadly serious. As the mullahs make a bid for more uranium, They have been called out for cheating. The United States is obliged to withhold approval of a new supply of the radioactive material until the regime can prove it's not up to mischief. Anything else is simply tomfoolery.

April 24, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No freedom on liberal campuses

"Wellesley students advocate hostility on campuses to silence conservative 'hate speech'" (Web, April 20) exposes the eerily Orwellian nature of the events unfolding in our institutions of "higher learning." At Wellesley College, the case is being made for using force and violence to stifle the free speech of those who "refuse to adapt their beliefs." In February, students rioted and set fires at the University of California, Berkeley, to prevent an appearance by conservative personality Milo Yiannopoulos.

April 24, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Good riddance to O’Reilly

It is only fitting that the long career which made Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly a fabulously rich man and enabled the network to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenue should end in disgrace ("Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News after 18 years hosting No. 1 prime-time program," Web, April 18).

April 23, 2017

EDITORIAL: Preserving voting rights in Maryland

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense, and this is often lost on conservatives. That might be about to change. In battles over protecting voting rights, conservatives are usually put on the defensive by lawyers of the litigious left as they seek sympathetic liberal judges to strike down common-sense ballot-integrity measures enacted by the states.

April 23, 2017

EDITORIAL: More reefer madness

Marijuana has gone mainstream, its reputation hardly recognizable from the 1930s when a popular movie called "Reefer Madness" depicted in melodramatic fashion the dangers of smoking cannabis.

April 23, 2017

EDITORIAL: Confusion in the marketplace

The Maryland legislature has just sent a bill to Gov. Larry Hogan that will, if he signs it, sow confusion in the state's generic drug marketplace and subject consumers to considerable harm. It's bad economics laced with a large dose of politics that begs him to pull out his veto pen and limber up his writing hand.

April 20, 2017

EDITORIAL: Genital mutilation takes a hit

A Michigan physician was charged this week with the ritual mutilation of the genitals of two sisters, one 6 and the other 7 years old, revealing a sordid -- and illegal -- practice in certain Muslim communities that has put up to 500,000 young American girls at risk of this barbaric mutilation.

April 20, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP good at splitting own vote

The crowded field in Georgia's 6th Congressional District election (11 Republicans vs. one Democrat) poses the question of whether Georgians are aware of the perils of splitting the vote within their own party. They came very close to snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Either they are very young voters or they have forgotten history.

April 20, 2017