THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fossil-fuel hypocrite

President Obama recently explained his reasoning for rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline after seven long years of procrastination. He said he wanted to prove to the world that America will voluntarily lessen its reliance on fossil fuels to lead the international fight against climate change.

November 12, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Silent on Palestinian atrocities

At the receent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to make progress in resolving the Israeli/Palestinian quagmire when he failed to recognize the real obstacle to peace: continuing demonization of Israel by Palestinian leadership.

November 12, 2015

EDITORIAL: Milwaukee debate focuses on right stuff

Everybody but some of the media wise guys agrees that the fourth Republican presidential debate this week in Milwaukee was better than the MSNBC train wreck that preceded it. The practiced pontificators didn't like it because it had no fireworks, no memorable gaffes and no memorable sound bites, no throwing of shoes, eggs or lamps and with only one or two boos for questioner or candidate straying toward the unexpected.

November 12, 2015

EDITORIAL: Scrap televised debates

Nobody but pollsters actually like the public-opinion polls. The public is suspicious that they're used to manipulate public opinion. The growing plethora of polls is a menace.

November 12, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Charge pollution ‘dividend’

Thank you for the great Nov. 4 op-ed "Why conservatives should set a price on carbon pollution" (Web) pointing out that we need to take a market-based approach to energy. Right now the political clout of fossil fuel-corporations gets them massive government subsidies and we socialize the costs of carbon pollution.

November 11, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Continue aid to Israel

The first step in talking about the situation in Israel should be to correct any misconceptions relating to the current Arab-Israeli conflict ("Obama, Netanyahu to discuss U.S. military aid to Israel," Web, Nov. 8).

November 11, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama bordering on lawlessness

The Constitution matters. The much-abused document on which the republic stands has been rescued from the trash bin where President Obama threw it, and still stands between the government and his "progressive" goal of using a flood of illegal immigrants to build a permanent "progressive" majority. The reprieve is welcome but Mr. Obama has not learned much.

November 11, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama retreats

How quickly Washington forgets that Ronald Reagan's forthright stand against Soviet totalitarianism and the tyranny of Communist China was the object of derision at the time. The elites sniffed and scoffed at the cowboy president. He was so unsophisticated. The late Clark Clifford, expensive lawyer, fixer and tutor of the elites, called him "an amiable dunce."

November 11, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fund public transit now

It's time for Congress to get serious about investing in public transit. It's good news that both the House and Senate have passed multi-year transportation bills, but it's not enough simply to move forward with the same transportation strategy we've always had.

November 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. can still fix Iran deal

President Obama may not have any interest in war, but war may have an interest in him, as the old Russian proverb goes. Congress and the next president must correct the dangerous Obama defense policy on ground forces before it does real harm to the U.S. military.

November 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: Submission to tyrants in Iran

When the nation's negotiators shake on a deal at the bargaining table, the result ought to be peace and good feeling. But not when one of the parties agreeing to peace in our time is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Once it signed its long-sought nuclear deal with the United States and its global partners, the mullahs went home to search for more rope.

November 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: Mob rule on University of Missouri campus

If the campus is an accurate reflection of the rising generation, the nation has frightful prospects. The "kids" are in the streets again, trying to reprise the fun of the '60s, long before they were born, but the decade that formed many of their professors.

November 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: An upsurge in misery in Cuba

Barack Obama's attempt to woo Fidel and Raul Castro away from their regime's totalitarian roots has turned from disaster to catastrophe, giving a new and ugly meaning to President Obama's campaign slogan of "hope and change." So far there's been no change and no hope, but more misery.

November 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: USPS red ink is Washington’s

The U.S. Postal Service is older than the country itself, delivers to 153 million homes and businesses, and consistently ranks as the public's most trusted federal agency. Yet misinformation about it abounds. Some such misinformation unfortunately appeared in Drew Johnson's column of Oct. 29 ("Postal service lies cost us billions," Web).

November 9, 2015

EDITORIAL: The sickening toll of Obamacare

Obamacare was supposed to provide more Americans with more affordable health care. The result would be fewer Americans suffering budget-breaking medical expenses and more Americans living a healthy life.

November 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Congress, fully fund GMD

As North Korea moves toward testing its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, Congress must ensure that our nation is defended by fully funding our defenses against these threats ("U.S. and South Korea formulate plan to deal with North Korea's missiles," Web, Nov. 4).

November 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Say no to Kosovo in UNESCO

Recently the authorities of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo have filed application for membership in UNESCO. This request is not only legally unacceptable, it is morally and logically absurd.

November 8, 2015

EDITORIAL: Japan Post Holdings unleashes enormous deposits

This week Japan Post Holdings, where many Japanese put their household savings, began the privatization of one of the largest accumulations of capital in the world. The 144-year-old Japanese postal system, originally modeled after state corporations in France and Germany, sold shares in Japan Post Bank, which holds $1.5 trillion in Japanese household savings deposits, and Japan Post Insurance.

November 8, 2015

EDITORIAL: Will NATO rise to the geopolitical challenge

Nowhere in the muddle of Barack Obama's foreign policy, such as it is, are contradictions so apparent as in America's relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

November 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump the straw man

Has the star of the faux reality show "The Apprentice" tapped into a vein of discontent in America, and is he leveraging it to make "America Great again?"

November 8, 2015