THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: China cracks down on free press in Hong Kong

The newspaper is the canary in the coal mine, the first to warn of the boot of the dictatorship when the dictator feels the heat of a free press. The dismissal of four columnists on The South China Morning Post, the leading English-language daily in Hong Kong, is a sign that China intends to be "no more Mr. Nice Guy" in the former British colony.

May 31, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Emery Popoloski

Emery and Charlie Popoloski began confronting Charlie's combat injuries while he was still on active duty.

May 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey flirts with China, Hamas ally Islamists

The course of Turkey hangs on the outcome of the elections June 7, but there's more than provincial interests at stake. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, eager to transform his nation as well as his presidency, is reaching for more power. His erratic public statements and policy feints in all directions have weakened Turkey's bonds with NATO allies in Western Europe, already wary of taking Turkey into the pact as a full-fledged member of the European Union.

May 28, 2015

EDITORIAL: Singapore to test Obama strength against China aggression in Pacific

Americans and Chinese officials will stand toe to toe in Singapore this weekend at the annual Shangri-la conference of international war-making officials. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Adm. Sun Jianguo, the deputy chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army, will have an audience of military and civilian strategists from the region as well as from the major powers.

May 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Nuclear Navy destruction by bureaucrats as Russia threat grows

In 2009 the "reset policy" of the current U.S. presidential administration unleashed the Russian terror in the world by giving Vladimir Putin the green light to pursue his KGB/FSB profession not only as former FSB chief, but as president of Russia. Mr. Putin knew that America would not confront him if he continued to kill more than 50,000 Chechens, 6,000 Ukrainians, 36 journalists, 293 Russian apartment dwellers (in order to frame Chechnya) and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

May 28, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Glenda Leary

When Josh Leary came back from his third deployment with the Air Force, his wife Glenda had no idea what she was dealing with.

May 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama’s amnesty hits another wall

Texas is flooded, and it's not just the water. The state has been inundated with illegal immigrants surging across its border, egged on by President Obama's unprecedented grant of amnesty to millions who have no right to be here. Though powerless to stop the rain, a federal court has reinforced a legal barrier meant to stem the flow of humanity that threatens chaos in Texas and other border states. The tide of lawlessness may be turning.

May 27, 2015

EDITORIAL: Civil-forfeiture laws must be reformed

Reform of civil-forfeiture laws is an idea whose time has come. This is an issue that unites conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats. FreedomWorks, on the right, and the Center for American Progress, on the left, invited writers, bloggers and think-tank analysts to a daylong conference the other day to talk about abuses of civil-forfeiture, which the Heritage Foundation rightly calls "a legal tool that allows law enforcement officials to seize property that they assert has been involved in certain criminal activity."

May 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Altitude not necessarily SIDS culprit

Your recent article on sudden infant death syndrome cites a study that places blame for these deaths on the high altitude in Colorado ("Study: High altitude may boost babies' risks for SIDS deaths," Web, May 25).

May 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CNN, the sinking ship

I just watched an hourlong special on CNN, "35 Years of CNN," primarily because nothing else was on. This program amounted to 60 minutes of news personalities boasting about the network being the "only news organization" present at major historical events, such as the beginning of the Iraq war. I found all this in-house hype entertaining. CNN has, in fact, been on the air 35 years. But what has it accomplished in three-and-a-half decades? Not much, if anything.

May 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tax reform headed in wrong direction

As a small-business owner, I am concerned by what I've read and heard regarding Congress' efforts to overhaul our overly burdensome tax system. I support reforming the tax system to make it simpler and easier for all businesses to understand, but I worry that what Congress is proposing will be a tax-reform system geared toward large corporations, and that it will leave small businesses holding the bag and without any relief.

May 27, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Sue Kirk

It was worth all the stress, hurt and worry Sue Kirk had experienced since becoming her son Jim's caregiver when she received a warm hug from him and heard him say he wouldn't be here if it weren't for her.

May 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton must turn over server

There's a media consensus that there's no "smoking gun" in the emails that Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of State and presidential candidate, has "persuaded" the department she presided over for so long to release to the public.

May 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Baltimore’s anger towards police means more deaths

The morgue in Baltimore is getting crowded. The riots that convulsed the city last month have subsided, and the fusillade of rocks and bricks and the burning of cars and shops has been replaced by a more frightening violence -- murder in wholesale lot.

May 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t transform America; perfect it

President Obama and others who think like him want to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Yet in order to become successful, many of these people took advantage of opportunities provided them by the United States — before any transformation had taken place.

May 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Christians not leaving Israel

Reading "Pope Francis canonizes first modern Palestinian saints in heavily symbolic move" (Web, May 17) an unsuspecting reader might think that Christian Arabs are persecuted in all of Israel, not just in the West Bank and Gaza. The same reader might also get the impression that Christian Arabs are leaving Israel. Neither of these is true.

May 26, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obamacare about to implode

Obamacare seems about to implode, and the implosion could be a great contribution to those who would reform America's health system in a systematic way. The nation will have to get it right the second time around.

May 25, 2015

EDITORIAL: Republican presidential debate set up good idea run amuck

Out of work politicians with time on their hands once occupied themselves by fishing, collecting stamps or learning full-hitch macrame. But that was so 20th century. Now they run for president, some of them more than once, sometimes with no more experience at dealing with problems than talking about them. Is this a great country, or what? But running for president finally threatens to overwhelm the presidential debates.

May 25, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama let the Islamic State grow

What did President Obama mean in October 2012 when he said the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States was al Qaeda? Hadn't he recently been yelling at college kids that al Qaeda had been decimated?

May 25, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton email scandal a security risk

Since a Romanian hacker was able to read some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, we can be sure that foreign intelligence services were very likely able to do the same. Knowing that Mrs. Clinton was a potential presidential candidate, the foreign intelligence services probably have kept complete files.

May 25, 2015