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FILE - In this June 16, 2015, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, , R-Ky., speaks to members of the media following the weekly Republican luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell said July 20 he hopes to announce soon that he and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California have reached an agreement on a transportation bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: Mitch McConnell adopts Harry Reid tactics to get highway bill

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, whose rage at Democrats for the way they ran the Senate when they were the majority, is using some of their tactics to push a six-year highway bill through the Senate. Revisiting the highway funding debate must make senators believe they're caught in a remake of "Groundhog Day" because they've had to pass some 60 short-term extensions in recent years. Mr. McConnell wants to end that, pass a multiyear bill and move on.

July 23, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: Protocols reveal Iran deal worse than imagined

The details of President Obama's deal with Iran continue to leak, like muddy water from a bucket left to rust in the weeds. Several congressmen who lately called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna learned that there are secret "protocols" to the agreement Mr. Obama made with the mullahs of Tehran. Mr. Obama and the talking heads on television argue lamely that this is "always the way with such undertakings."

July 23, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More Planned Parenthood abhorrence

It's been a tough year for the conservative community in America. We've seen a dismaying Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, liberalization of marijuana laws and more. Yet in the past two weeks we have learned of an issue so revolting that it makes one nauseated: An anti-abortion group, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), published a secretly taped video of a telling discussion with Deborah Nucatola, director of medical services for Planned Parenthood. In the video, Nucatola candidly discloses how the premier abortion organization sells aborted body parts "Covert video targets Planned Parenthood fetal-parts policy," Web, July 14).

July 22, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran deal sacrifices Israel

Recently Secretary of State John Kerry issued a draconian proclamation in defense of the Iran deal. He warned that if Congress rejects the plan, "Our friends in this effort will desert us." The dreadful irony of this statement immediately arrested me.

July 22, 2015
Illustration on the evils of Planned Parenthood by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Congress should withdraw Planned Parenthood funding

The late Richard Pryor obviously wrote the defense used by the wonderful folks at Planned Parenthood, whose senior executives got caught on camera, twice, haggling over the price of the body parts -- lungs, livers, brains -- lifted from the bodies of unborn babies.

July 22, 2015
A voter can be seen in a voting booth Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 in Honolulu. Despite the rains and winds from Tropical Storm Iselle that pounded the state Friday, Hawaii will hold primary elections today. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

EDITORIAL: Internet balloting too risky

"Your vote counts" is a snappy slogan just short enough to fit on a lapel button, but snappy is not the same as "secure." As the 2016 campaign unfolds, there's renewed interest in enabling voters to vote over the Internet. The notion that choosing a president could be as easy as using a smartphone to order a pizza is tempting to some, but until cybersecurity wizards prove that a vote cast is a vote counted, Internet balloting is unreliably risky.

July 22, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Respect differences

An armed man walks into building, opens fire and kills nine people, all of the same race. Who or what provided this opportunity? Can one walk into a shopping mall, movie theater or restaurant, randomly open fire and kill nine people of a specific race? It certainly could not happen at a public school or university, a military base or any other government institution. How ironic that it took a church to provide such a target-rich environment. Yet places of worship is the very place where diversity is taught as virtue, and not enforced as law.

July 21, 2015
Pledge of Allegiance - In Massachusetts, Democratic State Congressman Frank Smizik vocally backed a 2011 effort by the Brookline Political Action for Peace group to ban the Pledge of Allegiance in school. The group said that the pledge had no educational value and was “reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.” While students already had the right not to say the pledge, Smizik claimed that students who refused were being bullied. He agreed to co-sign the resolution, citing both the First Amendment and a calling it an anti-bullying measure. At the time, School Committee Chairwoman Rebecca Stone was reported to have said that, with other important issues on their agenda, she didn't believe that the Committee intended to reconsider the existing policy.

EDITORIAL: Left campaign to restrict free speech, religion

Once upon a time, the idea of giving the First Amendment a haircut never occurred to anyone. The constitutional guarantee of free speech was held to be the cornerstone of the unique American experiment in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Founding Fathers wrote it, plain, direct and so unambiguous that even a United States senator could understand it.

July 21, 2015
Liz Sullivan, mother of Kathryn Steinle, is consoled by Sabine Durden as she cries during the testimony of Kathryn's father Jim Steinle during a Senate Judiciary hearing in Washington on Tuesday. The family told Congress they support changing the laws that allowed her alleged killer to remain in the United States despite being deported several times. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: American opposition to sanctuary cities

There's bad immigration news, but it's leavened by news that is a little better. The bad news is that the Center for Immigration Studies puts the number of illegal aliens crossing the border by the seventh year of the Obama administration at 2.5 million. The better news is that the number of illegals swarming to the United States has leveled off, owing to hundreds of thousands who have gone home. Arrivals and departures are now about even.

July 21, 2015
The Times Square military recruiting station displays insignia for each military branch, Friday, July 17, 2015, in New York. Security at military recruiting and reserve centers will be reviewed in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Tennessee. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

EDITORIAL: Give the soldiers a gun

The attacks on military recruiting offices continue because they're attractive targets for terrorists and they are, by necessity, located in vulnerable places. They're placed in high traffic areas so they will be highly visible -- they're intended to attract attention -- and they're staffed by soldiers, sailors and Marines shorn of the weapons they're trained to use.

July 20, 2015
President Obama asked Americans to wait for more facts about the Chattanooga shootings, and did not use the word "terror" to describe the attack. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama takes Iran deal to the U.N.

President Obama got the endorsement of his Iranian "deal" Monday that probably means the most to him, a unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N, and Gholamali Khoshroo, the Iranian ambassador the U.N., fell over each other to get up to say what a terrific occasion the day was.

July 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Only one president

The Washington Times gives ample coverage of Republican 2016 presidential candidates, but it seems to be silent on the Democratic candidates. Realizing there are many people on the Republican side running for the highest leadership position in our government, these individuals beat up on each other verbally. Meanwhile the few Democratic candidates do not seem to be challenging each other. When all the smoke clears, there will be just one person elected in 2016.

July 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran’s two postures make trust difficult

In response to the historic agreement designed to limit its ability to construct a nuclear weapon, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, "Our relations start afresh today. We seek more closeness, unity, brotherhood, and better relations," to which I respond,"Beg pardon"?

July 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Give military members right to carry weapons

Having been both a Marine and a law-enforcement officer, I felt cut to the bone last week upon learning that my brother Marines were killed and a law-enforcement officer was wounded by a terrorist in Chattanooga, Tennessee ("Thomas Sullivan, Marine killed in Chattanooga shootings, was Purple Heart recipient," Web, July 17). It is time for President Obama and Congress to officially declare war against terrorists and allow an army of unseen personnel to carry weapons under the Second Amendment.

July 20, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran deal should be wake-up call

I've been an independent voter all of my 49 voting years. I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans, but have allegiance to neither. President Obama has not impressed me much, but until today, I was never fearful of him. The Iran nuclear agreement has changed that.

July 19, 2015
Daly Simmons, 26, sits as she prays in front of a makeshift memorial outside the Armed Forces Career Center Saturday, July 18, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, of Hixson, Tenn., attacked two military facilities on Thursday, in a shooting rampage that killed four Marines and one U.S. Navy sailor. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

EDITORIAL: Destroying Islamic State requires better leadership

Chattanooga joins Fort Hood and Little Rock as indictments of the continuing failure of the nation's strategy for eliminating the threat of Islamic terrorism. The man entrusted with the responsibility for keeping America safe won't even call the threat by its right name. Hint: It's not "workplace violence."

July 19, 2015
Dinesh D'Souza. ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: The deprogramming of Dinesh D’Souza

Arrogance is ugly wherever found, and it's particularly ugly in a judge with the power to deprive a man of his freedom. Dinesh D'Souza is an author, filmmaker and onetime college president who was convicted of violating campaign finance law.

July 19, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s shifting identity

Hillary Clinton's political decolletage has remained modest even as her chief rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders, lets it all hang out ("Hillary Clinton's identity crisis confuses followers," Web, July 16). Hillary's apologists, water-carriers, flacks, advisers, spinners and hangers-on apparently approved revealing something more in her economic policy address, although perhaps she should have maintained the mystery.

July 19, 2015