THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Tax cuts key to reviving economy

"What's in your wallet?" is more than a punchline in a TV commercial. It's the question that breadwinners ask themselves every day. How they answer determines whether they're gaining or losing ground in the race for prosperity.

October 24, 2016

Jim Bunning, a sad note in World Series Week

This week millions of Americans, including political junkies who are sometimes more passionate about baseball than politics (particularly after a nip or two of fine old Kentucky bourbon in the shank of an evening with old friends), will interrupt their arguing over the occasional merits and manifold shortcomings of Hillary and the Donald, to retire to the sport pages and the World Series.

October 24, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Where are the Bushes?

Where are the Bushes during this election cycle? Why have they apparently been silent, and whom does their silence benefit? Let's remember which party they belonged to when they ran and got elected. The family comprises two former presidents of the United States and one former governor of Florida, and today their voices are absent. Jeb Bush even promised to support the chosen GOP candidate.

October 24, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Consider cap on election spending

I cannot wait until this election is over. Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI and the American people, using a private email server in her home for State Department business. WikiLeaks divulged how some Clinton supporters were paid to disrupt Donald Trump's campaign events.

October 24, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bill Clinton the real danger to women

The recent disclosure of Donald Trump's past 'locker-room' blather remains disheartening. But what are more than taxing to digest and countenance are the self-righteous pontifications from the likes of assorted major media columnists and other hypocritical miscreants of the far left regarding this regrettable Trump behavior.

October 23, 2016

Donald Trump teases GOP elites

Donald Trump may be having a little fun, even if his friends and foes, who are worrying about what happens on Nov. 8, are not. They're not sure why he said he wouldn't accept defeat, nor what, exactly, he meant. He hardly clarified his meaning to them the next day when he said he would accept the voters' verdict "if I win."

October 23, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton unsafe at any ‘speed’

While all of Queen Clinton's media and all of the establishment cockroaches are scurrying out from under their rocks and clamoring for Donald Trump to withdraw from the race, it is perhaps worthwhile to recall Hillary Clinton's own hypocritical track record on issues of character ("When character is in season," Web, Oct. 19).

October 23, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama-sanctioned misogyny OK

President and Mrs. Obama have invited numerous rappers to the White House over their years in residence, rappers whose lyrics are not only as misogynistic as the Donald's spoken words back in 2005, but much more violent ("And they call it puppy love," Web, Oct. 18).

October 23, 2016

The peril in the polls

Public-opinion polls can be infuriating. They're often read as if they're telling us how to vote, rather than a speculation on how what we'll do. Indeed, some voters who want to be part of a fashionable majority will take them that way, and hitch a ride on a bandwagon.

October 23, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Integrity, honesty absent at FBI

The FBI and Department of Justice are prosecuting retired four-star Gen. James Cartwright for mishandling classified information, in the apparent belief that this shows the American public the FBI is willing to prosecute even big-shots.

October 20, 2016

Donald Trump has exposed how mainstream media cooks the story

Donald Trump and his regiments marched out of Las Vegas Thursday morning in high spirits. Maybe they were just whistling past that famous graveyard where hopes go to die. Or maybe not. Some post-debate polls show the race still tied, and if that's true the debate changed very little. There's still the election, to settle the dispute once and for all, or at least until 2020. (That campaign begins Nov. 9.)

October 20, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Remove corruption to fix U.S.

In 1974, we removed a president for lying to the American people and covering up a political burglary. We correctly deemed this necessary to confirm the 'rule of law' and strengthen our republic. In those days no one man or woman was above the law. The 'cancer' on the presidency and government was duly removed.

October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton passing buck on promoting campaign violence

With so many campaign reporters in the tank with her, eager for a little warm and cuddly, Hillary Clinton's fear of talking to them is a puzzle. She can be sure of not getting very many tough questions, and her answers will be carefully presented to an unsuspecting reader/viewership. They all share the same assignment, to destroy the Donald.

October 20, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pay attention to politics

Given where we find ourselves politically, what are we to do? Thomas Mann said, "In our time the destiny of man presents its meaning in political terms." Given the tremendous power derived from government's monopoly on the legal use of force, make no mistake: It is unwise to ignore politics. Politics is the imposition of will.

October 19, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump too far removed from the people

Donald Trump is an obnoxious idiot who is trying buying his way into the presidency. He will create nothing but division and hate and make the United States a target for all kinds of reactionaries. He is using the tool of demagoguery and extremist politics to get votes as he plays the racist anti-immigration card to the maximum.

October 19, 2016

Pot on the ballot

When the topic is illicit drugs, a two-way conversation can generate three opinions (or more). A disjointed nationwide discussion is underway over the benefits and dangers of marijuana that will rattle at the ballot box on Nov. 8. Whether they vote to join the current crop of tokers or to stand firm for smoke-free sobriety, Americans in several states can't claim to be clueless about the consequences of the high life. It's already here.

October 19, 2016

Donald Trump may be rewriting rules for party coalitions

The enduring American political parties have always been coalitions. The country is too big and populous, with too many strong regional and other economic demands to meet the models of European-style ideological political configurations.

October 19, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s terror ties

Out of concern for fighting terrorism in their nations and worldwide, political leaders from Egypt and Libya have a simple request: Keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.

October 18, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We are our own solutions

None of us will be 'freed' by a politician. However, a single vote can liberate a person. When we step alone into the voting booth in a few weeks, my hope is that we see at the bottom of our ballot, visible only to us, our own names. Why? Because our problems in this life, our true bondages, are in the mirror. If we will look at the mirror again, closely, we will see the solution to our problems.

October 18, 2016

Covering issues beyond skill of the media

Nobody's any longer paying serious attention to "the issues," unless the Donald's sex tape and Hillary's felonies and misdemeanors qualify as issues. Hillary naturally gets a pass, either because the media has decided that her crimes are old news or, more likely, trashy behavior is what everyone now expects from the Clintons. Besides, what's wrong with trashy behavior?

October 18, 2016