THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Obama’s war-weariness must not be reflected in military

Barack Obama is an intelligent fellow. Smart, sometimes. But for a smart, intelligent man, clever enough to get himself elected president of the United States not once but twice, he has a fifth-grader's understanding of the evil men out there determined to kill us.

July 12, 2015

EDITORIAL: A bust for medical marijuana

Celebrating the medical benefits, if any, of marijuana has been an effective ruse to win social acceptance for getting high. This was thoroughly predictable, and now it's clear that the organized pot heads have been blowing smoke at us.

July 12, 2015

EDITORIAL: ‘Hail to the Redskins’

Why a few Indians, obviously envious of other ethnic minorities who get their names in the paper so often, are so dead to the celebration of courage and valor escapes us, but dead they are. The cheers roll down from the stands at FedEx Field, the martial strains of "Hail to the Redskins" float on the autumn air, and dead souls do not hear. The Washington Redskins unite a contentious city, a city riven with partisan anger and something close to hate, and dead ears cannot hear, dead eyes cannot see.

July 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: For Ike’s sake, replace Gehry

I don't doubt architect Frank Gehry's intention to do right by the life and legacy of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

July 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Government no longer ‘of the people’

I have observed President Obama's actions and dictatorial power for seven long, long years. Now it seems we also have a Supreme Court that no longer decides cases based on constitutionality, but rather on the Justices' personal ideologies.

July 9, 2015

EDITORIAL: End the ban on American oil exports

Forty years ago America was in a panic. The world was running out of oil. Cars lined up around the block at every gasoline station in town. President Nixon took a commercial flight to California, riding (first class) with the semi-ordinary folk, and leaving Air Force One in the hangar. Congress enacted a law prohibiting selling American oil abroad. Cheap oil was gone for good and America was resigned to kowtowing to the shieks of Arabia forever.

July 9, 2015

EDITORIAL: Impossibility of the euro

When the euro was first proposed and for some time after it became the currency, certain economists had pertinent questions (which some of the hosanna shouters thought impertinent): Could a common currency be possible for a group of countries which insisted on keeping their own individual economic, monetary and fiscal policies intact?

July 8, 2015

EDITORIAL: Shark Week and shark attacks

The water has never been the same since "Jaws," the 1975 movie starring a hungry great white shark snacking on beachgoers at the fictitious New England resort of Amity Island. The unexpected sight of a shadow in the surf -- real or imagined -- sets off a panicked flight atop the whitecaps to the safety of dry sand.

July 8, 2015

LETER TO THE EDITOR: EPA regs kill longevity

When he died recently at age 97, Art Linkletter left a book explaining the key to the longevity of the people of Tibet. Linkletter had sent scientists to Tibet, and there these scientists discovered that the wood ashes the Tibetans used to grow their vegetables were full of virtually every mineral known to humanity.

July 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Oreos’ new cookie no silver bullet

Oreo's creation of "Oreo Thins" is about as effective as putting bricks in your toilet tank to save water and then flushing three times to get the job done ("Oreo slims cookies to shrink waistlines," Page I, July 7). Of course, before you jump on the Oreo people, maybe it is way past time to look at the food-pyramid-obesity-Type-2-diabetes correlation.

July 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Burst Hillary Clinton ballon

After the Republican and Democratic conventions, will we be looking at a Romney-versus-Biden race? In fact, such a competition is not as far-fetched as it may seem.

July 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama’s long-term Islamic State strategy leaves problems for generations

There was flash and bang aplenty from coast to coast over the Fourth of July, but nothing was fired in anger or with malice. A threatened terrorist attack on the homeland that gave the authorities such concern last week did not happen. The lone wolves stayed at rest in their sordid dens of iniquity. Targets of terror elsewhere, though, were not so fortunate.

July 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Take Iran at its word

This morning I read in a unitedwithisrael.org alert that "Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz lamented that under Obama, the U.S. will open an embassy not in Jerusalem, but in the capital of a Communist country whose leader 'hates America.'" This same website also recently reported that an Iranian military commander has said the United States will stay Iran's enemy despite the nuclear deal.

July 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Kathy Steinle pays for San Francisco’s sanctuary city

Sometimes a single event cuts through the rhetorical fog to illustrate with stunning clarity the consequences of wrongheaded and simpleminded public policy, putting to shame the academics, the pundits, television's talking heads and the politicians who follow their lead in promoting such policy.

July 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Man, woman not interchangeable

In light of last week's same-sex marriage decision by the Supreme Court, it is curious that those who believe sexuality entails a vocation are labeled 'haters.'

July 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: Medical device tax unnecessary, unhealthy, harmful

Dreaming up innovative products that make living easier and even save lives requires creating something unimagined out of vision and thin air. That's why President Obama's tax on medical devices has never made sense. It steals the seed corn that talented scientists and engineers need to fund their ideas, and it hobbles efforts to build a healthier and more productive nation. The medical device tax is a drag on progress, and even some "progressives" understand that.

July 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t expect much from SCOTUS

Two landmark Supreme Court decisions did more than legalize abortion and same-sex marriage. They also validated a Bible passage in Timothy 1:9-10, which reads, "We know the law is made not for the righteous, but for the lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for murderers, and the sexually immoral."

July 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama adrift in the Middle East

President Obama has a problem with his eyes. He doesn't easily discern the difference between friend and foe in the Middle East. He has redeemed his campaign promise "to put some light" between the United States and Israel, though he confuses "light" with destructive space. Worse, the administration has alternately ignored reality, supported the wrong side, imposed a military assistance embargo, only to lift it, all to damage the Egyptian relationship with the United States.

July 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR; Syria’s Druze need Israel’s military support, safe haven

The conflicts in Syria have increased the complexity of the Middle East situation and exacerbated the instability in the region. Terrorists have taken advantage of this instability and made dramatic territorial gains in Syria and Iraq. They now threaten two minorities: the Kurds and the Druze.

July 5, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Catholic Bishops miss mark on same-sex marriage ‘tragic error’

The Catholic Bishops' comments in "Bishops blast Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling as 'tragic error'" (Web, June 26) miss the mark in condemning the recent Supreme Court ruling that affords lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people equal rights and protections under the law. Real "religious freedom" upholds an individual's decision to live in accordance with their sexual identity and religious values. Discrimination on the basis of such is not a Catholic value.

July 5, 2015