THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More turbine hot air

Yesterday, June 15, wind-energy rent-takers marked "Global Wind Day." This is just another orchestrated media event designed to distract taxpayers, electricity consumers and wind-turbine victims from the follies of wind energy.

June 16, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Religious leaders not infallible

Pope Francis is infallible, or so his flock believes, in matters of Catholic religious doctrine. His clerical robes and position as leader of Roman Catholicism, however, grant him no special expertise when it comes to other subjects fraught with dispute. He brings nothing new to the table with respect to the vicissitudes of climate, the vexing Palestinian problem, changing hemlines in women's fashion or any other of the problems that beset us.

June 16, 2015

EDITORIAL: A new Jeb Bush

The "official" entry of Jeb Bush into the Republican presidential race leaves an important unanswered question hanging over the race. The former governor of Florida had announced earlier, with the usual drumroll, that if he became a candidate he would mount a different kind of campaign. He would be the happy warrior. He had never liked the grit and grime of take-no-prisoners campaigning or the gotcha! politics characteristic of recent Republican contests. He just wouldn't be a part of a campaign like that.

June 16, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Why the vice presidential pick matters

Conservative voters and Republican strategists are grossly overlooking the vital importance of the vice presidential pick in terms of winning the next U.S. presidential election. We all know that presidential candidates are now more of an entertainment, inducement, and campaign-speaking-skill popularity contest, yet they may come with a powerful, strong, and experienced VP sharing the helm.

June 15, 2015

EDITORIAL: The ‘new’ Middle East

Old alliances and barriers have fallen away in the Middle East in the wake of new waves of "traditional" Islamic terrorism and the withdrawal of American leadership. "Traditional" is the right word, because, despite politically correct commentaries to the contrary, the history of the spread of Islam has always been accompanied, if not led, by violence. Nobody called Muhammad "the Prince of Peace."

June 15, 2015

EDITORIAL: Bureaucrats exploit American generosity

American generosity is the marvel of the world. The open heart, accompanied by the open pocketbook, is the American way to relieve the pain and loss of disaster. It's how a wealthy society can spread largesse to those struggling with survival.

June 15, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Heroes: Meet Danny and Faun O’Neel

Caregiving is what Faun believes she was born to do. A mother herself, during a five-year period Faun was also a foster mother to twenty children, two of whom she adopted.

June 14, 2015

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton’s history of cronyism

Ideologies and proclivities that end in "ism" bloom and fade in Washington like the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin in spring, but cronyism persists through all seasons and ages. Some practice it to greater effect than others, but the Clintons have perfected the fine art of back-scratching for political advantage and profit. New revelations have surfaced that Hillary was doling out favors far earlier than previously known. It simply confirms what the public already knows about America's quintessential political family: If there is a seam in legal lexicon as narrow as the word "is," the Clintons will find it and turn it into a broad boulevard of personal gain.

June 14, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No free market in the fueling sector

The free market will not move America forward because there is no free market present in the fueling sector ("Congress should red-line 'green' gas rules of the EPA," Web, June 1). The oil industry has a monopoly on the pump — and therefore you, the consumer.

June 14, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Wounded warrior caregivers deserve attention

I would like to commend the Washington Times for its series entitled, "Wounded Warrior Caregivers."

June 14, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama’s foreign policy is contradictory, slow

There is almost a childlike innocence to the foreign policy initiatives of the Obama administration. These might be admired for their insouciance, were it not for the fact that they are contributing to worldwide instability and promising even greater disaster for the United States.

June 14, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Kathleen Causey

In 2011, as Kathleen prepared to finish her college degree, her husband of eighteen months, Aaron Causey, was catastrophically injured while attempting to disarm an IED in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

June 11, 2015

EDITORIAL: Dimming prospects for affordable energy

Coal will face a rocky future if President Obama has his way. The black stuff that has powered the world for eons is not "green," and that is all that matters for the "progressive" masterminds of the 21st century. They favor more ethereal forms of energy from Mother Nature's bounty like the sunshine and breezes that accompany a perfect day. But for the billions of human beings around the world who live hand to mouth and the 14.5 percent of Americans existing below the poverty line, the anti-coal campaign promises to make energy more expensive. Dimming humanity's hopes is not the path to a brighter future.

June 11, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama threatens separation of powers

President Obama has crossed another red line, and not one so easily erased as those smudged out by his lethargy and timidity in the Middle East. American representative government and its more important but allusive essence, democracy, have been protected in many ways over two centuries of American history. There is, of course, the written Constitution, which sets out the basic requirements of government.

June 11, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It’s all about the Clintons

Is anyone really surprised that the Clinton Foundation is a slush fund that gives favors to the highest donors ('Favors to foundation stretch back to Clinton's Senate days,' Web, June 10)?

June 11, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Good presidents don’t wait

Jimmy Carter is smiling and Warren Harding is rolling over in his grave as neither is any longer in competition as America's worst-ever president. That distinction now goes solely to Barack Obama.

June 11, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Stephanie ‘Steff’ Smith

Self-medication, primarily with whiskey, was Tom Smith's remedy for the long list of ailments after his last deployment -- migraine headaches, nerve damage, spinal injuries, memory loss, hyper-vigilance, flashbacks and night terrors among them.

June 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to take on fanatics is now

Wake up America. What happened in 1938, 1939 and on is happening again today. The world and America ignored what Hitler was doing until it became apparent that the Nazis had to be defeated. Then 50 -70 million people died because we didn't listen to people such as Winston Churchill and waited until Hitler forced the world to pay attention. It is happening again today.

June 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ignore celebrity sex crises

Why on earth would I be interested in Bruce Jenner's sex life, or whether he wants to view himself as a man or as a woman? Don't people have enough problems of their own, trying to deal with the hand that was dealt them, that we must become absorbed with a celebrity who can't?

June 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: TSA failures threaten safety of Americans

Wishing someone "safe travels" shouldn't be more than a good manners. With the exposure of vulnerabilities posed by airport screeners, who are largely responsible for getting American passengers safely from Point A to Point B, passengers have no choice but to fly "on a wing and a prayer." Flunking tests to detect fake bombs and weapons at security checkpoints, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is proved unable to guarantee safety at the nation's airports. An overhaul of the way the government protects travelers is in order.

June 10, 2015