THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Mobilizing the Christians against persecution in Middle East

The mainline Protestant churches in the United States, joined by Pope Francis, have shown great concern for many fashionable secular causes, such as eliminating poverty, promoting peace and promoting fear of global warming, but for Christians around the world under threat of persecution and annihilation, not so much.

July 30, 2015

EDITORIAL: Did White House participate in U.Va. Rolling Stone hoax

Making up a story, if it's about a designated villain, is hip in certain quarters but it's never cool, as Rolling Stone magazine is learning in the sordid wake of its account of a gang rape at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. It was a gang rape that by all recent accounts never happened.

July 30, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To GOP, all lives matter

I found the article "Hillary Clinton campaign starts Black Lives Matter outreach: report" (Web, July 27) interesting but in need of some explanation.

July 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Senate name-calling long overdue

Sen. Orrin Hatch is upset about colleagues' manners concerning "name calling" ("When tough talk roils the decorum of the Senate," Web, July 28). Mr. Hatch has been a senator for 38 years.

July 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Mitch McConnell’s highway bill will be rejected by House

Congress is itching to get out of town, and Washington is itching to see them leave. The heat sometimes does strange things to congressional brains. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, spent most of a week persuading/forcing his colleagues to pass a six-year transportation bill that he knows will die in the House of Representatives.

July 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: Drifting toward crisis on Taiwan

Xi Jinping, the president of the People's Republic of China and the chairman of the ruling Communist Party, now says the delicate relationship between China and the Republic of China on Taiwan cannot continue, but refuses to meet President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan to talk about it. Therein lies a looming crisis for Washington.

July 29, 2015

EDITORIAL: China’s shaky economy

Three weeks ago shares on the Shanghai stock market fell by nearly a third in value, wiping out $3 trillion in profits. When the cavalry arrived, the Communist Party leaders threw everything they had to stop the hemorrhaging. Capitalism is particularly precious to Communists.

July 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Regulator should understand credit union industry

Credit unions hold six percent of the business lending market. Credit-union business loans are made in the local community and are typically focused on small businesses, churches and real-estate rentals. The average credit union business loan is less than $225,000. During the financial crisis the highest loss rate was less tha one percent. Do these loans sound like the "risky large loans," as your editorial suggests ("End run by the credit unions," Web, July 26)?

July 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Deal great for U.S.-hating Iran

President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have put the United States and other countries in jeopardy by entering into an agreement with Iran which temporarily curbs Tehran's nuclear-armaments program. Either our leaders have been duped or they are naive (or both). Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry are more concerned about their respective legacies than the security of the world.

July 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Amazon Watch an Ecuador advocate

Your July 15, 2015, article about Amazon Watch's ongoing campaign to hold Chevron accountable for its 18-billion-gallon toxic mess in Ecuador omits critical facts and propagates falsehoods ("Amazon Watch still backs Steven Donziger's discredited Chevron lawsuit after others bail," Web).

July 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: President Obama should protect unborn

President Obama, a strong gun-control advocate, is at it again. He takes to the airways to selectively use tragic gun killings to advance the cause of taking guns away from innocent, law-abiding gun owners ("Obama 'most frustrated' by inability to pass gun control,' Web, July 24) .

July 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: With Obama, assume the worst

Why are veterans stunned and baffled by President Obama's late-night talk-show "rosy assessment" of VA reforms ("Obama touts VA progress, claims wait times reduced to 'just a few days,'" Web, July 21)?

July 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: Where is a strong left-wing Democratic presidential candidate

If the Democrats want to be taken seriously, and something more than a party of self-righteous whiners, they must start acting like the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman and John F. Kennedy. All the fun shouldn't be left to the Republicans. Why should the nation be deprived of a contest for the Democratic nomination for president, the usual cat fight that always invigorated Democratic Party politics?

July 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: Parole for Jonathan Pollard

Close relationships, whether human or nation-to-nation, are always complicated. Almost any Thanksgiving Day dinner table is a demonstration of that, with brothers and sisters and cousins and aunts stepping carefully to avoid spoiling the turkey and spilling the cranberries. So it is with nation-to-nation relationships, too. As close it is, no country-to-country relationship is more complicated than America's relationship with Israel.

July 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dinesh D’Souza demonized for disagreement

Dinesh D'Souza and I have a profound appreciation for justice and freedom of speech, I as a U.S. citizen born to these rights, and Mr. D'Souza as an immigrant from a country not founded on them.

July 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Artificial intelligence challenges distinction between man, machine

The season of the Theater of the Absurd continues. After the Supreme Court twisted the clear meaning of plain English words to save Obamacare and bless same-sex marriage, after Iran hoodwinked Barack Obama into preserving and expanding its nuclear program, after Bruce Jenner remade himself (herself? itself?) into a buxom synthetic female, no one should be surprised when R2D2 wakes up to demand his civil rights, too. This might not be what Mr. Obama had in mind, but a conscientious radical accepts everything new, bad or not.

July 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for John McCain to go

Though not even close to having decided upon my choice of presidential candidate 2016, I support Donald Trump's interpretation of Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican ("Trump fires back after 'crazies' remark: McCain a hero 'because he was captured,'" Web, July 18). I am not a McCain fan. Mr. Trump speaks his mind and more of what he has been saying should be said across this nation of ours.

July 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Credit unions try to avoid their mandated role

George Stigler won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Economics for work that changed forever the way economists look at government regulation of business and industry. Before Mr. Stigler, a colleague of Milton Friedman in the Chicago school of economics, the economists and politicians accepted the argument that government regulatory agencies, established to protect the public from abuse, accomplished exactly that. After Mr. Stigler's groundbreaking work, that sentiment was shared not so much.

July 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Joining military could save lives

The incarceration of thousands of black men in America should not be upstaged by the rash of killings of unarmed black people at the hands of law-enforcement officers across the country. Are there any real solutions to stopping the bloodshed and helping black families deal with the issues that stem from growing up in fatherless households? In short, yes.

July 23, 2015