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This picture released by Cubadebate on its website early Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, shows Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Castro has written an article on Sunday in state-media criticizing those who spread rumors he was on his death bed. (AP Photo/Alex Castro, Cubadebate)

EDITORIAL: Light on the opening to Cuba

Children, ex-wives and discarded mistresses can be the ruin, or at least the headaches, of dictators. Fidel Castro's son, a photographer, has confirmed the fears of the critics of Barack Obama's "opening to America" in an interview with a Chilean radio station. Alex Castro, the regime's official photographer, went to Chile to promote his photographic books at an international book fair.

October 25, 2015
This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a close-up of the red planet Mars. (AP Photo/NASA) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Mars is calling

If you're not moving forward, you're falling behind. Like the hare that snoozed during his race with the tortoise, America is conceding leadership in human achievement in space. American astronauts conquered space decades ago, but now its astronauts must hitch rides aloft with the Russians.

October 22, 2015
House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, and the committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., have a heated discussion on the dais on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, as Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before the committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Congress’ failed Benghazi responsibility

The tragedy in Benghazi is a profound public issue. Four American lives were squandered. A sovereign but woefully unprotected American diplomatic station on foreign soil was attacked by terrorists. The American people were sold a false narrative (a lie, in plain English) for weeks about the true nature of the attack.

October 22, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let Taiwan into Interpol

Interpol's 84th general assembly is being hosted by Rwanda from Nov. 2, 2015 to Nov. 5, 2015. Police chiefs and other senior law-enforcement officials from around the world will gather at the event to discuss a range of policing and security issues, including foreign terrorist fighters and cybercrime.

October 21, 2015
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

EDITORIAL: Benghazi committee must ask Hillary Clinton tough questions

Capitol Hill often resembles a three-ring circus, but there must be no clowning around at the face-off Thursday between Hillary Clinton and the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Hillary's future as the face of the Democrats could rise or fall on the credibility of her answers to questions about her role in the events leading up to the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.

October 21, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: How to really create wealth

I have been extremely lucky the past couple of weeks. My net worth, along with the net worth of more than 320 million other Americans, has gotten billions closer to that of the Walton family, the founders of Walmart. Recently the Waltons' net worth dropped $10 billion in one day due to declining profits and stagnant sales.

October 21, 2015
Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, gave members until Friday to decide whether they agree with his vision for the party, one that includes trumpeting big ideas, making clear policy choices and a cooperative effort to change the way the House operates. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Paul Ryan, as speaker of the House

Paul Ryan looks like a lock for a job he says he never wanted. We believe him. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he values time with his family, his guns and the tax code. That sounds like the usual cliche of the pol departing Washington, but we believe him on this, too.

October 21, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S.: Israel ally no more

Sadly, under the present U.S. administration, there is no possibility that Israel will receive American support against the reign of terror of the Palestinian Authority and its leaders.

October 20, 2015
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures during a speech to supporters at a rally in Richmond, Va. Trump has long boasted about his enormous wealth and how he doesn’t need anyone else’s money to fund his (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

EDITORIAL: Republicans can stop Trump by offering something better

What looked like the cloud no bigger than a man's hand only weeks ago has become a dark and threatening cloudbank on the horizon. Nobody any longer says that Donald Trump can't win the Republican nomination. Some pundits are even saying maybe he could even be elected president.

October 20, 2015
Maria Teresa Eneim O'Leary, 85, an Alexandria businesswoman, mother of five children and widow of Jeremiah O'Leary, a White House correspondent for two Washington newspapers, died at her home in Alexandria on October 13.

Maria O’Leary obituary, Alexandria businesswoman

Maria Teresa Eneim O'Leary, 85, an Alexandria businesswoman, mother of five children and widow of Jeremiah O'Leary, a White House correspondent for two Washington newspapers, died at her home in Alexandria on October 13.

October 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S., not Russian, policy failing

President Obama confidently assured us as recently as last Friday that the ongoing Russian military action in Syria will fail. In fact, his entire national security and foreign policy team tell us almost daily that Russia and its Iranian allies will not succeed in keeping Syrian President Bashar Assad in power.

October 19, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ethical, moral citizens on their own

The issues of worldwide atrocities and gun-ownership rights can logically be conflated in this time of crisis against humanity. On the one hand, we have a president and administration that turns a blind eye to the Christian holocaust taking place in the Middle East, while they fervently defend Muslim communities in the United States.

October 19, 2015
Ken Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis, is pleased that Ben Affleck mentioned Canada in his Oscar speech. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Farewell to Ken Taylor

Americans were reminded this week of what a tried and true friend it has in its Canadian neighbor, a relationship all but unique in the world. That reminder, Ken Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran who hid six Americans in the ambassador's residence during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, died last week at 81.

October 19, 2015
Democratic presidential candidates from left, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage before the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

EDITORIAL: Celebrating Hillary Clinton’s debate win misses the point

Electing a president can be confusing to those who skipped seventh-grade civics classes. Keeping straight the difference between delegates and electors, or primaries and elections, is difficult. The pundits and others paid to know better often confuse the differences between the parties and the public.

October 19, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lamar Odom gets star treatment for drug abuse

Unless you have been living under a rock or have had your head buried in the sand the past two decades, you are aware that illegal-drug use is pervasive to the point of being an epidemic in this country. A vital part of this problem is the use and promotion of the user lifestyle by celebrities.

October 18, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama no friend of Israel despite American Jewish vote

I found the recent op-ed by Eliana Rudee interesting indeed ("American Jews in Israel witness Obama's prejudicial 'slap in the face,'" Web, Oct. 11). Ms. Rudee complains that the words and deeds of the Obama administration seem to indicate animosity toward Israel. She says she is witnessing first-hand the consequences of President Obama's prejudices.

October 18, 2015
A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/File)

EDITORIAL: Obama must confront Islamic persecution of Christians

Christians don't count. President Clinton, who has a curious affection for Islam, and the dominant media, which has an aversion to religious faith generally and to Christianity in particular, share an indifference to the growing martyrdom of followers of the Christ, and particularly in the Middle East.

October 18, 2015