THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s true, anti-Semitic colors

It cannot be lost on the observant that one of the last acts of the current president was his instruction to his U.N. representative to abstain from the Security Council resolution condemning Israel for building new settlements ("A final insult to Israel," Web, Dec. 25).

December 27, 2016

Life inside the bubble

The weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth on the inconsolable left continues seven weeks after Hillary Clinton blew her inevitable presidency, and the mourning now is mostly about the inevitability of a Donald Trump presidency and whether the correct-thinking can survive in the dirty, rotten world where cruel fate has cast them.

December 27, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s latest Israel betrayal

President Obama's collusion in the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, ostensibly an anti-settlement measure, was a shameful betrayal of our ally Israel ("U.S. rebukes Israel and allows U.N. condemnation of settlements," web, Dec. 23).

December 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: NLRB, not Trump, the problem

National Public Radio suggests it is a conflict of interest for President-elect Donald Trump to make appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB has been a problem for thousands of employers and employees for years.

December 26, 2016

EDITORIAL: President Obama’s parting shots

President Obama is making sure that Americans won't forget him soon. From shutting down promising sources of domestic energy production to throwing open the nation's prisons and borders, the lame duck in the White House employs a little quackery to make good on his promise to fundamentally transform America.

December 26, 2016

EDITORIAL: When a president runs a tab

Only the fiercest partisan churl begrudges the president, any president, a few days out of the Oval Office. Everybody looks forward to a summer vacation, and presidents have the same wants and wishes their constituents do.

December 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The real ‘tainted’ election

Donald Trump won; Hillary Clinton lost. Democrats now say it was because the election was tainted by outside interference. The irony is delicious to the many Americans who remember another election result that was truly tainted: the one between Mrs. Clinton and Bernie Sanders. In that contest the Clinton campaign colluded with the Democratic National Committee to ensure that Mrs. Clinton would win. Once the collusion became public knowledge there was justified outrage, but not from Clinton supporters. For them, evidently the ends justify the means.

December 25, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Only themselves to blame

With the 2016 presidential election now more than 40 days in our rearview mirror, the Democratic Party continues to play its version of political whack-a-mole with excuses of how and why Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. When a good football coach talks to the press after a loss, he doesn't blame his offensive coordinator, special teams coach, list of injured players, or the referees. He takes the heat himself.

December 25, 2016

EDITORIAL: A final insult to Israel

President Obama continues his long march to the rear, where he imagines leadership should reside, and last week enabled the worst elements of the United Nations to condemn Israel once more for its settlements on the West Bank.

December 25, 2016

EDITORIAL: Hope in the Sahara

As struggles against the established order go, conflict in the Western Sahara is small potatoes. The people there have been struggling for self-determination and nationhood for 46 years, since Morocco imposed its rule over the territory. Lately the warriors are lawyers armed with writs and torts instead of revolutionaries armed with knives, guns and bombs.

December 25, 2016

Cynthia Baker Grenier, longtime Washington Times culture critic, dies at 89

Cynthia Baker Grenier, a longtime journalist and a former features writer and editor for The Washington Times, died peacefully at her home in Northwest Washington on Nov. 12. She was 89.

December 22, 2016

Doing the right thing at EPA

Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma and Donald Trump's nominee for director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, calls himself "a national leader in the cause to restore the proper balance of power between the states and the federal government."

December 21, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Democrats just sore losers

There is no evidence that the leaked Hillary Clinton campaign emails are of Russian origin ("WikiLeaks figure says 'disgusted' Democrat leaked Clinton campaign emails," Web, Dec. 14). Wikileaks said the emails came to them from an inside leak, not from an outside hack, and former top National Security Agency official William Binney has stated that if Russia was the source, the NSA would have conclusive proof.

December 21, 2016

Keeping South Korea on balance

Donald Trump won't become president until Jan. 20, but the globe will demand his attention before the echo of his oath of office fades across the National Mall. Political turmoil in South Korea could well provoke mischief among U.S. adversaries in Asia during the intervening six weeks.

December 21, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pakistan still persecutes Ahmadis

Human Right's Day was established by the United Nations to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Sadly, as we all know, human rights are not universal in the world. One place in which they are not recognized is Pakistan.

December 21, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Repeal Obamacare now

On Dec. 19 President-elect Donald Trump officially received the required minimum (and then some) electoral college votes to win the presidency. Repealing Obamacare should be a top priority in the first 100 days of the Trump/Pence administration.

December 20, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump, stand up to China

President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip with China made it clear that Mr. Trump is willing to buck tradition as a negotiating tactic. But at what price? As history can attest, before they took office several U.S. presidents loudly criticized Beijing, leaving Taipei with high expectations. Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and George W. Bush all did this. But when push came to shove, the presidents who had the worst impact on Taiwan were often the ones who criticized China the most loudly. Is Mr. Trump really going to be the lone exception?

December 20, 2016

EDITORIAL: Farewell to Zsa Zsa

Some celebrities are famous just for being famous. You can find them all over the internet. Other celebrities are famous for being infamous. There are even a rare few, like Zsa Zsa, who died this week age 99, who are famous just for being who they are.

December 20, 2016

EDITORIAL: Fracking and clean water

Gauging the effects of hydraulic fracturing on the nation's drinking water is much like considering whether the glass of the precious stuff is half-full or half-empty. When energy companies employ hydraulic fracturing in search of oil and natural gas they should take care, and most of them do, to avoid contamination of nearby reservoirs of drinking water. But the incoming Trump administration must determine again whether there's an unacceptable risk to supplies of fresh water.

December 20, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Compromise on election process

The debate about whether the Constitution should be amended to change the presidential election process is on again. Some advocate eliminating the electoral college in favor of a direct popular vote for president, while others believe the system should remain unchanged. Just as compromise solved the initial problems of the Framers, so it is that compromise can solve this problem.

December 19, 2016