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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at a banquet in Seattle. Leaders from Michigan to Beijing attended meetings Tuesday with Xi in the U.S. and signed an agreement to work together to advance renewable energy and clean technologies to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

EDITORIAL: A challenge to Xi Jinping

Little things can mean a lot, but it isn't always easy to decipher exactly what those little things mean. Almost on the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival in the United States for an elaborate state visit, something happened over the Yellow Sea, which separates China and the Korean Peninsula.

September 24, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. 21, 2015. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton’s campaign on suicide watch

Anot-so-funny thing is happening to Hillary Clinton on her way to the coronation. By this time she was supposed to be busy getting accustomed to the purple, looking forward to high times next summer at the Democratic National Convention in Tampa.

September 24, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No more ‘first’ trophies for left

From where many Americans stand, it appears that the Democratic Party has degenerated into a bush-league political team obsessed with easy-win, first-place trophies (i.e., first black president, first female president). Never mind that Hillary Clinton, their current favorite, actually has less paid political experience than the highly intelligent but very foolish man currently holding the job of president.

September 23, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ben Carson right on Muslim president

I would suspect that a few million people agreed with Republican presidential contender Ben Carson's recent comment that he would not approve of a Muslim president. And why would he? Pure and simple, Islam is not so much a religion as a form of religious government.

September 23, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry answers a question about the ongoing crisis in Syria during a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in London. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

EDITORIAL: Iran deal leaks

If there's a market for black satire, Barack Obama and John Kerry have a future in the movies. They have outdone Peter Sellers and George C. Scott in the 1960s dark comedy, "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

September 23, 2015
President Obama will need to more than double the number of Americans enrolled in Obamacare exchange plans to reach 21 million next year, the target set in budget projections, in what is shaping up as the next major test for the health care law. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The painful costs of Obamacare

Just when it looked like Obamacare couldn't get worse, new statistical evidence shows that it can, and has. Healthcare insurance is getting more expensive for most workers because of an increase in deductions.

September 23, 2015
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pauses as he speaks at a news conference Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Madison, Wis., where he announced that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

EDITORIAL: Exit Scott Walker

Six months ago no one would have bet that Rick Perry of Texas or Scott Walker of Wisconsin would have been the first to step off the Republican presidential merry-go-'round. Both looked like authentic contenders.

September 22, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate change cash grab

Modern climate alarmism was launched with the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report featuring the now-infamous "hockey stick" graph. This showed that global temperature was flat for 1,000 years and then soared skyward from about the year 1900 on. Unfortunately, there is no way to say this politely: The graph was based on lies.

September 22, 2015
This Nov. 11, 2014, file photo shows the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated by the setting sun on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

EDITORIAL: Americans suspicious of government

Americans have always been skeptical of their federal government. It's in the republic's DNA. The founding fathers even wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution, just in case. But skepticism in our time has become something close to contempt. The Gallup Poll finds that almost half the country says the United States government is "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary Americans."

September 22, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Syria refugee crisis Vladimir Putin’s opportunity

The current influx of "refugees" streaming into Europe is surely tragic, although whether these individuals are fleeing the war in Syria or the economic situations in many Middle Eastern countries is debatable. In fact, German officials now acknowledge they can not verify where many, if not most, of these people have come from.

September 21, 2015
The U.S. Navy warship USS John McCain, an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, is docked at the Subic Freeport to take part in the joint US-Philippines naval exercise called Cooperation Afloat Readiness And Training (CARAT) at the former US naval base of Subic, about 70 miles west of Manila, Philippines Thursday, June 26, 2014. After more than a decade of helping fight al-Qaida-linked militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as the Abu Sayyaf have largely been crippled, officials said Thursday. The move reflects shifting security strategies and focus in economically vibrant Asia, where new concerns such as multiple territorial conflicts involving China have alarmed Washington's allies entangled in the disputes. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

EDITORIAL: Can new technology replace Naval war ships?

The U.S. Navy is unique. Now that Britain's Royal Navy, which for centuries enabled Britannia to rule the waves, has declined along with the rest of the empire, America's ships dominate the waves simply because no one can compete in every ocean sea across the globe.

September 21, 2015
Holy orders: Pope Francis looks out from the Hill of the Cross in Holguin, Cuba, Monday as he entreated the island nation to adapt some of its more conservative views. Francis faces some backlash from U.S. Catholics for his more liberal views on such issues as same-sex unions and climate change. Story A8. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The naive intentions of Pope Francis in Cuba

Pope Francis arrives Tuesday to a hearty welcome in the United States, fresh from a triumphant visit to Cuba, where the Castro brothers not only put out a red carpet for him but put on a show of how to suppress dissent. Catholic dissidents to the Castro rule were knocked about by "state security" when they showed up for the mass the pope no doubt intended for all.

September 21, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ann Coulter owes U.S. an apology

As an American first and a Democrat second, I have had it with Ann Coulter. Yes, she has every right to express herself, but really, where in a decent society does she get off with her "f---ing Jews" tweet during the second GOP presidential debates ("Ann Coulter accuses GOP candidates of pandering to 'fing Jews'; ADL responds," Web, Sept. 17)?

September 20, 2015
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, a worker hangs banners ahead of Pope Francis' scheduled visit, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. After months of angst over long security lines and onerous travel, organizers still expect more than a million people for Pope Francis’ outdoor Mass in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

EDITORIAL: A visit by Pope Francis

This is a big week for foreign visitors. Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, arrives and no sooner leaves Washington than the leader of China comes to town for a state visit. Pomp and circumstance were never so abundant. It's a good week to stay out of the tangle of blocked streets the visits will make of downtown traffic.

September 20, 2015
President Barack Obama, top, walks behind Chinese President Xi Jinping as they enter a room before a meeting after participating in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

EDITORIAL: Xi Jinping’s bluffing hand

The state visit of Xi Jinping to the United States this week will include a lot of the usual pomp and nothing much else, given the circumstance. There's little expectation that the lengthy list of critical issues between Washington and Beijing will be addressed in a substantive way.

September 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump no ‘Lonesome Rhodes’

Pointing an accusatory finger always points three fingers back ("Trump is 'Lonesome Rhodes,'" Web, Sept. 14). Columnist Cal Thomas is also a prime violator of Ronald Reagan's "11th commandment" not to speak ill of fellow Republicans.

September 17, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall event Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: The debt to Donald Trump

The Republican candidates, though no doubt feeling a little bedraggled and punch-drunk on the morning after, owe Donald Trump a debt. He gave them a needed splash of cold water in the face.

September 17, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Make U.S. mass transit a priority

Nations around the world, including our economic competitors, are making significant investments in transportation, especially mass transit. Congress needs to stop making transportation a partisan football that it kicks back and forth and instead make a real commitment to improving and expanding our transportation network — for everyone's benefit.

September 17, 2015