THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: BDS movement helps no one

Clifford D. May deserves our commendation for bringing some logic and common sense into the boycott-Israel issue ("Jobless and desperate Palestinians," Web, Oct. 27).

October 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Opening borders not in U.S.’ interest

America has always been a refuge for oppressed people. We willingly open our doors to those who want the opportunity to live peacefully in a country where freedom is valued.

October 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama’s road to disaster in the Middle East

The one great lesson from the Vietnam War is that waging war by increment is a recipe for disaster. It never works because armies are not designed to wage war piecemeal. You do a puppy no kindness by cutting off his tail an inch at a time.

October 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Debate moderators an embarrassment

I was appalled Wednesday night watching the Republican debate on CNBC. Instead of focusing on economic issues such as jobs, interest rates, Dodd- Frank and taxation, the moderators asked 'pinhead' questions.

October 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: GOP presidential campaigns get serious

The Republican debate this week may have been the actual beginning of the 2016 Republican campaign for the presidency. All that has gone before was mere entertainment. The "real" candidates began to emerge and the CNBC-TV moderators, as bad as they were, helped with separating the wheat from the tares. The sifting and winnowing is finally under way.

October 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clinton still evading Benghazi justice

On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. The resulting investigation led to the impeachment and eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. No one lost their life, no national security concerns were in play, jihad was not a factor and justice was served.

October 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tsai not planning ‘formal independence’

Tsai Ing-wen, the Democratic Progressive Party's presidential candidate, has not and will not propose "formal independence," as The Washington Times' recent editorial, "Concern in the Taiwan Strait" (Oct. 25), wrongly states. Dr. Tsai's clearly articulated goal for her administration is maintenance of the current status quo, based on the existing ROC constitutional order and the more than 20 years of negotiations and exchanges with China.

October 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: The consequences of a ‘living wage’

Everyone wants a raise, but only a few of us expect to get it by government edict. Some workers at the bottom of the payroll will see a larger paycheck — if they don't get a pink slip first. It can get cold in the real world because despite all the government can do there's still no free lunch.

October 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: Ben Carson’s rise

Ben Carson represents the best of America. Whether he should be the president of the United States is another question that is not under consideration here. But his ascent to the top of the public-opinion polls tells a lot about both the man and the country he wants to lead.

October 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to let ‘Redskin’ name go

To add to the recent discussion regarding the Washington Redskins name, it is important to note the origins of the moniker. After all, American Indians are not red.

October 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: The lesson of Lois Lerner

Almost any prosecutor, so courthouse wisdom goes, can persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, with or without cheese. Barack Obama's prosecutor, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, was "persuaded" to throw out the case against Lois Lerner, the high-ranking officer at the Internal Revenue Service who targeted Tea Party groups for special attention in the run-up to the 2010 and 2012 elections.

October 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: Vladimir Putin trying to recreate Soviet Russia

Vladimir Putin never sleeps, unlike his most famous counterpart elsewhere. He has refigured the Russian domestic scene in the Soviet image, one that gladdens the hearts of the remaining Soviets who never thought they would see his like again.

October 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pass budget deal before Nov. 3

To those 535 people on Capitol Hill: Get to work. The Treasury's borrowing authority must continue without interruption ("White House calls on Congress to approve two-year budget deal," Web, Oct. 23). The current statutory debt limit must be suspended.

October 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Consider John Kasich

I understand the appeal of voting for people who have never held public office. I, too, believe in a 'citizen government.' However, there is much to be said for one who has the correct experience for a particular task. Consider Donald Trump. Mr. Trump is a very successful businessman. It is unquestioned that he is at the top of his profession. Yet he did not start at the top; he gained his level of success through years of hard work and experience. Same with Dr. Ben Carson. You can be sure Dr. Carson did not begin performing delicate and complicated brain surgeries on Day One of his career. He had years of training and experience that enabled him to perform at this level. So why would one automatically dismiss someone with governmental experience, especially one who is running for the country's top position?

October 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clinton redux would destroy U.S.

Just as Barack Obama's severe shortcomings did not stop the liberal media from anointing him the first black president even before he was elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton's deceptions to cover her failures in the Benghazi terrorist attack will have no effect on that same media crowning her the first woman leader of the United States.

October 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Environmental lobby dictates climate science

The business of Washington is politics, but politics doesn't sell without "good optics." The White House that passed out white lab coats to a phalanx of doctors backing Obamacare in a Rose Garden photo-op, is lining up big-name companies now to pledge allegiance to "a low carbon-dioxide future" in advance of next month's climate change conference at the United Nations.

October 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Paul Ryan for Speaker of the House, Daniel Webster for majority leader

"Personnel is policy," most of the time, and whom a president, governor, senator or mayor surrounds himself with is a good way to judge whether he will stay true to his convictions, beliefs and values once comfortably in office. Once elected, such officials tend to attract either "yes men" or advisers with rogue agendas while taking care to appear to be reliable "yes men."

October 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Muslim refugees Europe’s death knell

In the current unofficial global war against radical Islam, the Islamic State is demonstrating greater command than its opponents of the use of economic maneuvers in asymmetric warfare. It is doing this while exploiting our fear of "lone wolves," with the unwitting aid of a gullible liberal media.

October 25, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Captain, company have responsibility to crew

As a formal naval officer who was an officer of the deck underway, a navigator, a meteorology officer and on-track for ship command, I am appalled by the decision of the captain of the El Faro container ship to head into a ferocious storm at sea ("Memorial service to be held for crew member aboard El Faro," Web, Oct. 13).

October 25, 2015

EDITORIAL: Concern in the Taiwan Strait

There might be a lesson in Taiwan for political parties in democratic states elsewhere about what to do when stuck with a bad candidate and an approaching election. Taiwan, where politics is always about survival, will elect a new president in January and the ruling Kuomintang, direct descendants of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists who fled the Mainland Communists in 1949, was saddled with a nominee running 20 percentage points behind in the public-opinion polls.

October 25, 2015