THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sick and tired of Democrats

I am a Chinese immigrant and have been a supporter of the Democratic Party since I got my U.S. citizenship. I have voted in Maryland for Rep. Chris Van Hollen several times, but I won't be voting for him this year as he runs for the Senate. I won't vote for him at any time in the future, either. My family and I have had enough of the Democrats.

November 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton as ‘the little woman’

Painting his critics as racists worked so well for Barack Obama that he prescribes a similarly false-witness strategy for Hillary Clinton in the dying hours of the sordid 2016 presidential campaign. He wants her to paint her critics as sexists and angry men who despise women.

November 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate change a threat, too

In this election year, many Republicans have proudly referred to the GOP as the party of Abraham Lincoln. It's important to note that President Lincoln chartered the National Academy of Sciences in 1863 to provide our country with objective advice on policy matters.

October 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Humpty-Dumpty promises

"When I use a word," said Humpty Dumpty, in an impatient and scornful voice, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." So wrote Lewis Carroll in his classic novel, "Through the Looking-Glass." It's clearly Hillary Clinton's favorite book.

October 31, 2016

Early voting and mockery of elections

Hillary Clinton wants her supporters, shell-shocked as they may be, to vote early this week. She knows what's in the new batch of emails -- if 650,000 emails can be called a mere "batch" -- and she knows that this week is not likely to be better than last week.

October 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton camp defies DoD directive

On Oct. 27, retired Marine Gen. John R. Allen appeared in a TV ad aired in the Washington, D.C., metro area endorsing Hillary Clinton for president of the United States -- a political activity.

October 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Vladimir Putin a formidable opponent

L. Todd Wood ("How Putin played our 'flexible president," Web, Oct. 20) is correct in his assessment of Russia's role in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails and his assertion that "Mr. Putin is funding many fringe political groups in the U.S. and Europe."

October 30, 2016

The price of offending an Obama crony

Offending one of Barack Obama's campaign contributors can be as career-threatening as thumbing a nose at the president himself.

October 30, 2016

The surprises of October

We've moved beyond "the October surprise." That's stuff for the 20th century. Now we have "October surprises," plural. The bombing run on the 2016 campaign comes from several sources — WikiLeaks, the FBI, Judicial Watch — and who knows what's still behind the bomb-bay doors.

October 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Rigged elections a fact

Just as we're having all this back-and-forth about whether the elections are rigged, a friend of mine remarked to me that she hasn't decided whether to vote in Washington or Maryland. How in the world can that even be a question? Could she possibly be registered in both places? And I have to wonder, if she can just decide which way to walk over the line to vote, could she possibly vote in both?

October 30, 2016

Challenging laws requiring doctors to perform sex changes

With the right Halloween costume, anyone can be a zombie, a Kardashian or an NFL linebacker, if only for a night. It's all good fun. Modern medicine is giving those seriously dissatisfied with themselves a chance to become someone else -- for keeps (more or less).

October 27, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: International trade a win all around

"When think tanks pass bad trade deals" (Web, Oct. 16) by Sen. Jeff Sessions and Peter Navarro contains inaccuracies and incorrect interpretations of information attributed to the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).

October 27, 2016

Democrats accuse Republicans of war on women, again

It's "baaaaack," and just in time for Halloween, the tired canard invented by the Democrats and their allies in the media, that the Republicans want to wage war against women. Like a serial killer in a horror movie, the canard just won't die.

October 27, 2016

Choosing the president

There's nothing new under the sun, as Ecclesiastes reminds us, but this presidential election campaign comes close. Rarely if ever have both parties nominated candidates who invite so much anger, frustration, indifference and even contempt.

October 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fourth estate dropped ball on election

There was a time when the fourth estate (i.e., the press or news media) was respected as an institution that represented and protected the public interests. Now it seems the focus of the media is on pandering to the public's worst instincts in order to attract a large audience and thus increase profits.

October 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fund TB eradication

What many think of as a disease from the days of "La Bohme" — tuberculosis — is today the world's leading infectious killer. According to new data from the World Health Organization, the age-old scourge is even worse than we knew — with more people falling sick, more people dying and more cases of dangerous, drug-resistant strains than we previously thought. How is this possible when TB is both preventable and curable?

October 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Antonio Guterres fit to replace Ban Ki-moon

In his Oct. 11 op-ed "Ready for the U.N.'s top post?" Brett D. Schaefer is ill-informed about Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, who was the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for more than a decade.

October 25, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Consequences of shunning Donald Trump

Many Republicans are turning away from supporting Donald Trump, and many do so fearing that his election will lead to the end of the Republican Party as it existed before Mr. Trump. Are they blind to what could happen if he loses?

October 25, 2016

Fairfax County tries to impose ‘meals tax’

It's always for the kids. Every time a local government wants more money from taxpayers, the taxpayers are told that it's not for lavish salaries or programs of limited value, but "for the kids." It's for schools, teachers, first-aid kits, fire extinguishers and stuff like that.

October 25, 2016

Department of Justice does a number on policing

Putting on a blue uniform has seldom been this hard. Thugs and killers have always despised the men and women who keep the peace, but now their bosses often no longer have their backs. When the badge is bent out of shape to suit the times, civility slides toward the ragged edge of barbarism.

October 25, 2016