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A man climbs the border wall to cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, on Sept. 11, 2008. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Illegal immigration surges again with no Obama border security

What a difference a year makes. Or does it? Last summer the border was overrun by a surge of children from Central America, sent northward by their parents on the news that President Obama had relaxed enforcement of immigration laws. This summer the parents are making the hike, too.

August 12, 2015
Crowds chant in the street along West Florissant Avenue, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was punctuated with gunshots. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

EDITORIAL: Loretta Lynch’s police praise counters ‘Ferguson effect’

Ferguson is still a tinderbox, but there's hope and change this time. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has distanced herself from her predecessor, Eric Holder. She praises cops for taking responsibility as peacemakers, and she isn't looking for opportunities to incite turmoil. She might start a process of healing the rift between minority communities and the men and women in blue who protect them.

August 12, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan president, pursues China peace

Since President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan took office in 2008, the Republic of China in Taiwan (ROC) government has been striving for the improvement in cross-Strait relations ("Drifting toward crisis on Taiwan," Web, July 29). Over the past seven years the two sides across the Strait have held 10 rounds of talks and signed 21 agreements, attaining a level of peace and stability unprecedented in the past 66 years.

August 11, 2015
FILE - In this May 8, 2015 file photo, gas station attendant Carlos Macar pumps gas in Andover, Mass. The economy is thought to have shrunk in the January-March quarter and may barely grow for the first half of 2015 _ thanks in part to sharp cuts in energy drilling. And despite their savings at the gas pump, consumers have slowed rather than increased their spending. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

EDITORIAL: Gas prices low thanks to American oil industry ingenuity, not Obama

The good news is that it's been a year since the price of gasoline hit the skids. The even better news is that the price could stay down there for a long time. The oil "freight train," as it's called, is on a roll, and OPEC is on the ropes. American industrial ingenuity is taking consumers past the obstacles to affordable fossil fuels, including the obstacles President Obama throws down. In an era in when economic struggle seems to be the new normal, cheap gasoline is the one bright spot.

August 11, 2015
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, whose home base of New York has a large Jewish population, is the most prominent Democratic opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, and polls show many of his constituents agree with him. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Chuck Schumer braves Obama loyalists to reject Iran nuclear deal

Sen. Chuck Schumer's opposition to President Obama's Iran deal took considerable courage. The senator from New York knew that Mr. Obama brooks no dissent among his supporters and that his enforcers go after anyone who breaks ranks. Within hours, Obama loyalists were on the streets warning that the senator's "foolishness" would be an obstacle in his path to succeed Harry Reid as the party's leader in the Senate. The Obama loyalists suggested that Mr. Schumer's break wouldn't surprise anyone familiar with his record. He supported the invasion of Iraq, after all, and seems willing to put Israeli interests above those of his own country.

August 11, 2015
In this March 11, 2013 file photo is a sign reading "Stop the Transcanada Pipeline" placed in a field near Bradshaw, Neb. Even if the Republican-led Congress approves the Keystone XL pipeline, not a drop of oil will flow through the system until Nebraska signs off on its route. The routing process is still before the state Supreme Court, and depending on how justices rule, it could be months or longer before any construction in Nebraska begins. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama abuses Canada with Keystone pipeline politics

Poor Mexico, as the Mexicans used to say of their country: "So far from God, so close to the United States." Now all the Mexicans are up here, no closer to God but pouring across the border, anyway. Now the aphorism could apply to Canada, often ignored by American newspapers and television networks. The Canadians just had the first debate of their national election, and it went almost unnoticed.

August 10, 2015
Australian Defense ship Ocean Shield (AP Photo/File)

EDITORIAL: Australia builds military against China’s aggression as U.S. Navy shrinks

There's a little good news from Down Under, and it comes when the West needs good news. Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia is moving up by three years the work on building a fleet of advanced frigates, at a cost of nearly $12 billion, expressed in American currency. It's part of his plan to raise defense spending to 2 percent of Australia's gross domestic product, up from 1.8 percent. This adds $2.6 billion a year to the current $23 billion military budget.

August 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Killing coal caps Obama’s legacy of destruction

As promised in his 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama is marching non-stop down the road to eliminate coal power and prop up renewable energy, waving the flag of the global-warming hoax as he goes. This necessarily causes people's electricity rates to skyrocket. But hey, Mr. Obama is fulfilling his legacy.

August 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Republican debate starts search for presidential winner

I don't have a horse in the GOP presidential race, so I was able to watch last Thursday night's debate free of any candidate envy. I made two observations. First, the good news: Front-runner Donald Trump wasn't the focus of everyone's attention (although he was asked the first question). Second, the bad news: While the questions about immigration and health care were meaningful, I would have liked more discussion about the two major issues facing the next president of the United States. Based on their limited answers, I still don't have a sense of who has the best plan to keep America safe and how he plans to do it, or who has the best economic plan for revitalizing the middle class and why it is the best plan.

August 9, 2015
Voters are ready for 2016 combat: Republicans would most like to see a debate between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Carly Fiorina. (Associated Press photographs)

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton ignores Republican debate, prefers money and ignorance

Hillary Clinton says she wasn't interested in the Republican debate last Thursday night. She had something more important to do. She got together with her Hollywood pals to collect money -- the Clintons are never too busy to pick the pockets of their friends -- and trade weighty thoughts with the intellectual heavyweights of Hollywood.

August 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran deal worse than deal with Hitler

In his recent speech defending the Iran deal, President Obama gave it his best but came up short ("Obama: Critics of Iran nuclear deal 'selling a fantasy,'" Web, Aug. 5). Using speculation as fact, propping up straw-man arguments, engaging in highly partisan rhetoric and simply misrepresenting history, Mr. Obama failed to reach even the threshold of credibility.

August 6, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks about the nuclear deal with Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. The president said the nuclear deal with Iran builds on the tradition of strong diplomacy that won the Cold War without firing any shots. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s discrimination on body-parts sale

Finally, someone on the left did the right thing, and spoke up against the killing of humans and harvesting their organs and sending them to market. Troubles arise, President Obama said, when "you are not able to see someone else as a human being." Indeed. This surely mortified the folks at Planned Parenthood.

August 6, 2015
President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney participate Oct. 3, 2012, in the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Denver. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Harold Stassen was a true debater

The modern political debates, which aren't really debates at all but questions posed by media celebrities, have nevertheless pushed presidential candidates to the head of the class or consigned some of them to the sidelines, to be discarded flavors of the week.

August 6, 2015