THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Herve Ladsous report inaccurate on U.N. peacekeeping threat to press freedom

"U.N. proves major threat to press freedom" by Drew Johnson (Web, May 3) claims that in September 2014, U.N. Peacekeeping Chief Herve Ladsous prevented reporters from filming a media engagement in Sudan. Writer Drew Johnson also alleges that Mr. Ladsous canceled the briefing when efforts to prevent filming proved ineffective.

May 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Baltimore police investigation reflects politics, r

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has called for a federal investigation into her own police department. This is an obvious attempt to deflect from her sheer incompetence and the bad decisions she made during the recent riots.

May 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony threatens presidential campaign

"The Clintons" is the longest-running soap opera in American politics. Bill and Hillary have seemed to be immune from the accountability demanded of others. Perhaps they're protected by scandal because scandal is what everyone expects from them. This defense will be put to the test when a judgment day, such as it may be, arrives the week of May 18 and she will be asked to answer questions from Congress about what happened at Benghazi, and her part in organizing the American response.

May 10, 2015

EDITORIAL: David Cameron’s majority win gives Conservatives power to manage Britain

Nothing is more fun for voters than confounding pollsters, and not just here in America. Britain, too, and they gave Prime Minister David Cameron the majority he needs to preside over the government as he thinks fit. While they were at it, they told the pollsters to beat it, and take their computer models, intrusive questions and smug self-confidence with them.

May 10, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Jessica Klein

When Jessica Klein's husband, Captain Flip Klein, was severely injured, resulting in a triple amputation, she was unwilling to just watch his health decline. She probed hard for answers and fought to reverse his downward slide against great odds.

May 7, 2015

Education and Training

Becoming a military or veteran caregiver is complicated, consuming, and emotionally and physically debilitating with no advance warning, no preparation, and often nowhere to turn for help. No one is ever prepared for the call that tells them their spouse, parent, sibling, son or daughter has suffered a life-altering physical or mental injury or illness. Too many of our military families face that reality.

May 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Courts rule Patriot Act illegal

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, has made it clear to his colleagues that he wants the USA Patriot Act, including the controversial parts of the legislation scheduled to expire at the end of June, fully extended. He's seems ready to do whatever he can to get his way.

May 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s Islamic connection

So many lies, coincidences and distractions, so little time. Perhaps the most serious (who can keep count?) of the new Hillary revelations are that Huma Abedin's emails are among the missing from Hillary's private email server. Were Ms. Abedin's emails trashed to cover a conflict of interest when she was taking pay as a private consultant while on the State Department payroll as an aide to Hillary?

May 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tries to change subject

The call by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for a federal investigation into police "use of force" should be a call for laughter as the height of gall ("Baltimore mayor wins praise for seeking federal police probe," Web, May 7). There is the little matter of the department being Ms. Rawlings-Blake's own. She directed it to stand down and give rioters a chance to burn down 100 or so businesses. Of course, as preached and demonstrated consistently by the Democrats, there is no such thing as personal responsibility.

May 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016

Like most socialists, Hillary Rodham Clinton considers illegal entry across our borders migration where folks just wander around the planet like locusts, feeding, destroying and moving on ("Hillary Clinton rejects Bill's immigration crackdown, vows lenient approach," Web, May 4). Of course Mrs. Clinton does not want these particular "locusts" to move on.

May 7, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Shelle Aberle

Shelle Aberle's husband, Michael, a recently retired Colonel, courageously served his country for over 35 years. Michael currently lives with a hereditary polycystic kidney disease and was placed on the national transplant list in 2012.

May 6, 2015

Community support at home

A reporter recently asked a Maryland woman caring for her husband, a severely injured combat veteran, what kind of help she needed in the first months following her husband's return. She responded, "If someone had offered to pick up the groceries for me, I would have cried out of relief. They wouldn't have had to pay for the groceries, just pick them up, so I could stay by my husband's side and take care of what he needed."

May 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: The war on the police

Of all our wars, those declared and undeclared, the real ones and the made-up ones (such as the "war on women"), it's the war on the police that worries society most. A war on the established order, and those who protect it, is a war on ourselves.

May 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: Does experience trump vision in Republican presidential field?

The Republicans have an excess of riches for the 2016 campaign, diversity that the Democrats can only envy. But all riches do not have equal value. Experience in politics, the most valuable item on any chief executive officer's resume, looks like an afterthought on certain resumes. Carly Fiorina probably wouldn't have appointed someone with no business experience as her deputy at Hewlett-Packard. Ben Carson, the eminent neurosurgeon, would not have recruited a Starbucks barista as his chief surgical nurse.

May 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The end of Baltimore

The rioters of Ferguson, Mo., destroyed much of that town, and it probably will never be the same. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appears to have let rioters destroy a large section of Baltimore, a city which will also probably never be the same due to her reported decision to tell the police to stand down during some of the rioting.

May 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran is North Korea, redux — but worse

Bill Clinton was president when the United States conducted nuclear control talks with North Korea that proved to be a complete farce. North Korea signed an agreement stating it would not develop nuclear weapons and Mr. Clinton gave the country billions of dollars, plus other assorted goodies. That treaty resulted in North Korea developing a nuclear arsenal, and a few years ago North Korea actually admitted they used those billions Mr. Clinton gave them to help develop their nuclear weapons. On a positive note, their leader wasn't yelling "Death to America" during those negotiations.

May 6, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Jennifer Mackinday

When Jennifer's brother, Army Specialist James Smith, was wounded by an IED blast during combat operations in Mosul, Iraq, the list of impairments was long, and to most military caregivers, all too familiar: TBI, PTSD, elbow replacement, hearing loss, migraines and other complications.

May 5, 2015

Employment and Workplace Support

Caregiving is a time-intensive commitment, which can have a profound impact on military and veteran caregivers who are currently employed or need work. The two-year RAND study commissioned by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation found that many employed caregivers work in full-time positions because they are now the sole income provider for the family. Of those caregivers surveyed, many also found that the time devoted to caregiving required adjustments in their work schedules, often resulting in lost income and financial strain. This is particularly significant for employed post- 9/11 military caregivers, whose absenteeism is 3.5 days per month, much higher than the average for civilian and pre- 9/11 caregivers, which is one day per month. This puts a strain on both the employer and employee in terms of income, wages, lost productivity, and the consequences of unmet deadlines.

May 5, 2015

EDITORIAL: Global warming fearmongers’ new cliche

Cliches get attention, and fearmongers have christened a new one that's already turning credulous heads: "Tipping point." There are so many warnings about the danger of climate change tipping the balance of nature that to hear the "experts" tell it, Planet Earth has become one large canoe.

May 5, 2015

EDITORIAL: Iran’s trap for Obama’s negotiators

President Obama and his negotiators talking to Iran frighten the rest of us not only for what they're willing to accept as a deal, but for the way they negotiate. They clearly don't understand how to negotiate with rogues.

May 5, 2015