THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Samir Kuntar, good riddance

On Dec. 19 an airstrike in Syria (presumably done by Israel) ended the bloody saga of Palestinian Liberation Front terrorist and Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar. Kuntar didn't murder thousands, as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his followers did. Yet Kuntar was arguably even more emblematic of the evil that is Islamist terror.

January 3, 2016

EDITORIAL: China, the killer capitalist

China's enormous emerging market, and its investment in the infrastructure to support it, is pulling U.S. policy off course. The Communists in Beijing, as they still call themselves, are some of the toughest capitalists anywhere. The latest evidence is at the World Bank.

January 3, 2016

EDITORIAL: U.S. spying on Benjamin Netanyahu

If we take them at their word, Barack Obama and his not so merry men have demonstrated incompetence once more in "inadvertently" listening in to conversations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of Congress and other American friends of Israel who saw the president's sweetheart deal with the mullahs in Iran as the disaster that it is. On the other hand, the eavesdropping may have been deliberate.

January 3, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Christianity, Democratic Party incompatible?

I am a white Christian, and I take offense at "Black professor chastises white Americans: 'Admit to the racist poison inside of you'" (Web, Dec. 28). Since 90-plus percent of black votes go to Democrats, many blacks may think I am racist because I oppose Democrats. That isn't true.

December 31, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Multiple faults in Tamir Rice case

I did stupid stuff at the age of 12, but I never would have been so moronic as to have displayed a very realistic toy gun to the police. But simply put that's what Tamir Rice did ("Prosecutor's comments on the Tamir Rice police shooting case," Web, Dec. 29).

December 31, 2015

EDITORIAL: Brave new bad-credit world

If you admire efficiency, you have to respect the Communists in China. They're a step or two ahead of American liberals in their drive to mold and manipulate the peasants and sheep to do their bidding. American liberals only demonize (so far) those who disagree with them; the Chinese demonstrate that it's possible to consign such idolatrous types to outer darkness with neither arrest nor beating.

December 31, 2015

EDITORIAL: Yes to legal guns

All presidents want to leave a lasting imprint on history, a legacy, with a record of their wise words and good deeds. Sometimes a president with a spotty record comes along and tries to fake a good legacy, which can be difficult since what a president does speaks so loud that no one can hear what he says. Barack Obama is trying to write such a legacy with executive orders.

December 31, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton no commander-in-chief

The evidence against Hillary Rodham Clinton for compromising classified information continues to mount. Aside from her failure to uphold her oath to defend America from enemies (both foreign and domestic), as evidenced by the American deaths in Libya, Mrs. Clinton has breached the security of highly classified information.

December 30, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Consequences of regime change

The ancient Greeks warned, "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Those words are as true today as they were 2,000 years ago.

December 30, 2015

EDITORIAL: Japan, Korea try to smooth ancient squabble

Familiarity breeds contempt, and family squabbles are the worst, to be avoided if at all possible. That goes for nations as well as individuals. Perhaps no two strong societies have had as much contact over the centuries as Japan and Korea, contact at the price of considerable fuss and friction.

December 30, 2015

EDITORIAL: Cutting government down to size

Bigger is not always better. Bigger government is nearly always badder. That's what Americans are saying in a new Gallup Poll about the danger of overweening authority. There's a near-universal recognition that the institutions erected "in order to form more perfect union" are instead facilitating expensive flapdoodle. Small wonder that a majority say the nation is on the wrong track.

December 30, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Terry McAuliffe’s costly ‘green’ agenda

Clinton bagman and soon-to-be former governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe continues to latch onto the specious science of climate change and Obama boondoggles in the renewable-energy realm ("As climate panel weighs in, McAuliffe stakes out solar goal," Web, Dec. 21). How many tax-funded failures must 'Terrible Terry' be involved in before he turns matters over to serious businessmen and scientists?

December 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Solar energy a win-win

"Setting the sun on a boondoggle" (Web, Dec. 17) was interesting, if somewhat inaccurate, like many of your anti-solar-energy commentary pieces. I am involved in residential solar applications, now installing my third owned system. A typical 10.0-kilowatt system installed by any of several reputable vendors costs approximately $35,000 turnkey.

December 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Only Obama sees his successes

Any doubts about whether President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and their aides had taken up residence on another rock in the universe -- perhaps Pluto, which recently lost its status as a planet -- vanished with the arrival of a State Department report on American foreign-policy "successes" of 2015.

December 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Americans feel like strangers in America

The warm and comfortable feeling of "home" is partly a state of mind, but it's as tangible as the familiar squeak of a front door or the welcoming hug of a loved one. The man bereft of the sights and sounds of home is a restless soul, never knowing the affirmation of belonging in a place "where everybody knows your name." For many Americans, the land of the free and the home of the brave doesn't feel much like home anymore.

December 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Of women, hair and shoes

Women, God love 'em, have always been obsessed by what they wear at head and foot: hair and shoes. They're very particular, which pleases men, inappropriate as that might be. Compliments offend some women today, but they're still universally particular about their hair and their shoes. There's never enough time to deal with either one.

December 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: Guantanamo and common sense

There's grumbling at Guantanamo, the lawyers tell the London Guardian. The remaining prisoners are miffed at President Obama because they think he's not doing enough to spring them before he returns to organize the Chicago community, which sorely needs it.

December 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ryan a sell-out

Last week's massive budget deal, brokered and pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan, delivers one clear message to the public: Our government is corrupt.

December 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reverse course on blood-ban move

After years of lobbying by homosexual activists, the Obama administration, via the Food and Drug Administration, is trying to sneak an irrational and irresponsible policy change by the public.

December 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: Subsidizing the sun

Sunshine is free but solar power isn't. American taxpayers have been subsidizing the cost of turning sunlight into electricity for a decade, and just as the sun was beginning to set on life support, the solar industry prevailed in a plea for more government welfare. Lawmakers could have held the feet of the welfare kings and queens to the fire and forced it to compete on a level playing field, but crony capitalism thrives on Capitol Hill.

December 27, 2015