THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Shunning Curt Schilling

Rewriting history was a full-time job in the old Soviet Union, with bureaucrats in the Kremlin staying up late to eliminate public figures from the nation's collective memory, depending on whomever collided with a whim of the dictator of the day. Out-of-favor comrades of Lenin, Stalin and others were arrested, tried in kangaroo courts, and executed.

May 2, 2016

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton steps off the reservation

Words, words, words. Words are the evil that makes life miserable. Some people think if only we could abolish words, everyone would live in perfect peace, happy harmony and sweet silence. Hillary Clinton demonstrated the other day just how destructive words can be. She thought she was needling her wayward husband, and it turned out she was cutting herself.

May 2, 2016

EDITORIAL: Obama’s legacy in the Pacific

Among the reliable allies of the United States in the modern era, dating from the end of World War II and the arrival of the Cold War in Asia, few have been more reliable than Japan. Friendship between Japan and the United States remains the keystone of American strategy for peace and stability in the region.

May 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: School vouchers cheaper, more effective

Even though the Obama White House, perhaps mindful of its current resident's 'legacy,' will not try yet again to kill the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program begun by Congress in 2004, it was not above recently issuing a snarky statement that the federal government should spend all-out in order to improve public schools for "all students" rather than "using federal resources to support a handful of students in private schools" ("White House won't veto D.C. school voucher bill," Web, April 27).

May 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ted Cruz would fix Iran deal

Perhaps we can avoid a nuclear Armageddon by electing Sen. Ted Cruz as president. I believe Mr. Cruz is the most likely candidate to re-negotiate President Obama's Iran deal, which allows the Middle Eastern nation to house nuclear weaponry at suspected (as opposed to known) sites, as well as 24 days' notice in which to move the weapons.

May 1, 2016

EDITORIAL: Justice Department want to freshen labels on ‘justice-involved youth’

This is the age of euphemy, and sophomores rule. Nobody can screw up the courage to say what he means, and even if he could he had better not. Political correctness has something to do with it, but mostly it's an inability to confront reality, and the language reflects that. The evidence lies all about. There are no more dead-end streets, but streets with No Outlet.

May 1, 2016

EDITORIAL: The Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren ticket

Picking the running mates for the nominees is great fun, and it's harmless because it doesn't settle anything. Only a nominee gets to vote, and only the nominee knows.

April 28, 2016

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech promised change, but no specifics

Donald Trump's foreign policy speech this week astonished some of his snarky critics who were surprised that he had a foreign policy, beyond building a wall on the Rio Grande and sending the bill for it to Mexico. What they got was what he has been saying for months, in coherent language more easily committed to the teleprompter that presidents and prime ministers rely on.

April 28, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Harriet Tubman is Harriet Tubman, gun or no

I found "No whitewash for Harriet Tubman" (Web, April 24) very interesting. Feelings of understanding and conflict coursed through me as I, too, contemplated which image of Harriet Tubman should grace the front of the $20 bill. While taking the time to think truly about the actual significance of this overall historical honor of Ms. Tubman, my African-American pride started to take effect.

April 28, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan can mediate Asia tensions

The tensions in Asia are bound to undergo changes ("An American 'wall of missiles' to deter China" Web, April 25), but there is a mediator available to ease these in the South China Sea. Instead of positioning the arsenal platforms to counter China, Washington should take a close look at Taiwan's role within the region and determine how Taiwan can unravel the dangerous escalation in U.S.-China relations.

April 28, 2016

Powerball numbers for Wednesday, April 27 revealed

Powerball continued to build into big-jackpot territory Wednesday, as numbers were drawn again Wednesday night for a $282 million prize eight weeks after the last big winner.

April 27, 2016

EDITORIAL: Restaurants replacing calorie counts with smaller portions

Expanding waistlines are the price Americans pay for the horn of plenty. The nanny lurking in the shadow of big government reckoned that she can help the greedy shed the extra pounds by ordering restaurants to offer menus that clearly label nutritional content. Experience shows it probably won't work, and coaxing diners to order smaller portions might.

April 27, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Use captured funds wisely

The war against the Islamic State continues unabated, with the bad guys losing 1,500 to 2,000 fighters per month, according to the Pentagon. In fact, the terrorist group has reportedly lost so many front-line fighters that it is no longer able to replace dead soldiers one-for-one, instead only replacing 25 percent. We have also reportedly been successful in destroying a large chunk of the Islamic State's oil business.

April 27, 2016

EDITORIAL: A ‘presidential’ Donald Trump

Donald Trump declared victory in the wake of his impressive five-state sweep through the "Acela Primary" (aka, the "I-95 primary)" so called because the primaries were in the states along the route of both the highway and Amtrak's signature fast train. The Donald's declaration might not reflect mathematical accuracy, and his nomination might not yet be inevitable, but it was the right campaign politics.

April 27, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Voter ID upholds exiting laws

While elated to see the federal court uphold voter ID for my North Carolina neighbors ("Federal ruling on N. Carolina voting laws bolsters voter ID," Web, April 26), I am deeply saddened that a measure to prevent fraud and corruption of the American political process by the political left had to find sanctuary in legal corridors.

April 27, 2016

EDITORIAL: Obama’s leadership offers nothing for the Europeans

Angela Merkel, Germany's long-serving chancellor, speaks carefully with Teutonic precision. In her conversations with President Obama on his visit to Britain and Europe she spoke with a certain plaintive tone, seeking reassurance that America hasn't really withdrawn from the leadership on which Europe has relied for 75 years.

April 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Cruz-Kasich alliance will fail

Fox News host Megyn Kelly tried to knee-cap Donald Trump at the first Republican debate with her very first question. Since then the erstwhile Republican establishment (yes, Megyn, that would include you) have deployed every tactic, dirty trick, sleight of hand and Machiavellian scheme at its disposal to try to derail the Trump funicular as it chugs inexorably toward the top.

April 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Two-party system a failure

This election season we have seen that the Republican and Democratic parties no longer provide the United States a valuable service, assuming they ever did. The Democrats have offered us the most dishonest, least trustworthy, most openly avaricious, most judgmentally challenged candidate for the presidency — possibly in the history of the United States. Yet they support her for no better reason than that she is a Democrat.

April 26, 2016

EDITORIAL: Obamacare on the skids

Names identify people, places and things, but sometimes, particularly in politics, a name can be a disguise. After six years, the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has been fully unmasked. It's clearly not affordable, either for a person seeking health insurance, companies that sell insurance coverage, or the U.S. government. It's a telling symbol of President Obama's dysfunctional leadership.

April 26, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Brexit’ a solution for UK

President Obama warns that were the United Kingdom to leave the European Union ("Brexit") our special relationship would be undermined and international order destabilized ("Obama warns British over leaving European Union,' Web, April 22). But this assumes that continuity of foreign policy is the default option. Dare one mention Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya?

April 25, 2016