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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Anti-GMO just anti-science

Chipotle's recent GMO-free announcement confirms a disturbing trend: the inescapable appeal of anti-scientism in executive boardrooms. It's really just business as usual — an extension of a campaign that reduces farming to laughable caricatures and elevates Chipotle's "wholesome" brand.

April 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Eliminate Iran threat now

As the world — particularly in the Middle East — holds its breath, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry try to persuade us that a lion is really a lamb. It's a tough sell and so far only the most devout Obama-ites have drunk the Kool-Aid.

April 29, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Unqualified’ is political theme

Some say it's hard to judge a book by its cover, but oftentimes after a few chapters it gets a little easier to get a feel for the story. Looking at those in elected political positions today makes one scratch one's head and ask, Who is voting these people in? And what were the qualifications on which those voters based their decisions?

April 28, 2015
Yong Soo Lee, of South Korea is seen of the West Lawn of the Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Yong Soo Lee is one of dozens of surviving comfort women from Korea other Asian countries that were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese troops. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

EDITORIAL: Justice for Japan’s ‘comfort women’ of World War II

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who speaks to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, and the Japanese government have heard many demands for apologies for atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in World War II, and among the most deserving are from the thousands of women, mostly Korean, who were pressed into sexual slavery to serve the lusts of Japanese troops during World War II.

April 28, 2015
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2006 file photo, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a benefit gala for the Clinton Foundation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Clinton is tapping some of the biggest donors to her family's philanthropy for her presidential campaign, even as the charity is under scrutiny over its own fundraising practices. Starting what could be a $1 billion-plus fundraising effort, Clinton began raising money for her presidential bid Tuesday in New York, the state she represented in the Senate. The hosts’ connections with the Clinton Foundation show how intertwined the charity is with Clinton’s political career. Even her campaign finance director, Dennis Cheng, was a leading fundraiser role at the foundation before departing for the campaign. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton slips in polls

Americans are a tolerant lot, most of the time, but suspicion of foreigners trying to intervene in things that are none of their business is a constant in the nation's history. On leaving the presidency after two terms, George Washington warned in his farewell address of the wisdom of staying clear of foreign entanglements.

April 28, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP party of choice, freedom

There has been a lot of talk lately about Bruce Jenner coming out as a Republican and a Christian ("Bruce Jenner, Evolving Republican," Web, April 27). Some say they don't want him in our party while others welcome him. Good governance is beneficial to all groups.

April 28, 2015
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants footage from the Metropolitan Police Department's expanding body camera program to be exempt from public records requests, making the District one of an increasing number of jurisdictions trying to limit access in order to balance the technology with privacy concerns. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Caution with the body cameras

Every picture tells a story, but not every story must be told. Equipping the police with body cameras could hold them more accountable for how they deal with the public. Police departments generally support the idea of such cameras, saying video can protect them from false claims of police brutality. But the unblinking eye is no cure-all and the benefits must be weighed against cost, officer retention and privacy rights. If a police camera becomes part of the uniform, one size may not fit all.

April 27, 2015
President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Shinzo Abe seeks powerful new role in world

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan will be honored Wednesday in a way that few foreign visitors are honored. He will speak to a joint session of Congress, and in an irony that will not go unremarked either here or in Japan, he will speak from the lectern used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he asked Congress to declare war on Japan the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the date that FDR said "will live in infamy."

April 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Applaud Bruce Jenner’s courage

As a Christian, Republican and transgender individual, Bruce Jenner demonstrates that the conservative umbrella is just as diverse and inclusive as its squawking liberal counterpart ("Bruce Jenner: I'm a Republican and a Christian," Web, April 25). Today gay conservative voices — most notably Washington Times columnist Tammy Bruce — champion the truth that the Republican party has evolved to a greater degree of social acceptance.

April 27, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Unshackle energy, Internet

Stephen Moore's excellent op-ed "State of the planet: It's better than ever" (Web, April 26) overlooks Internet communications' wonderful contributions to energy-supply increase and a cleaner environment.

April 27, 2015
President Barack Obama laughs at a joke during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: The liberation of President Obama

President Obama obviously feels liberated by the sight of his administration swiftly approaching the outer suburbs of oblivion. With no fear of red line or deadline, he has set about to use the time he has left in office to make the United States a nation that neither he nor Michelle would be ashamed to be proud of.

April 26, 2015
FILE - In this Tuesday, April 21, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to students and faculty during a campaign stop at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, N.H. The acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation is acknowledging the global philanthropy made mistakes in how it disclosed its donors amid growing scrutiny as Hillary Rodham Clinton opens her presidential campaign, Sunday, April 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

EDITORIAL: Internet robot Random Darknet Shopper arrested for selling drugs

Sometimes the news sounds like science fiction by Ray Bradbury. We've been asked by a high government official, lately in charge of the State Department, to believe that certain of her emails reside in a black hole in cyberspace. Two scientists — computer geeks, anyway — are working on a computer program to bring a dead man back as a virtual live man for a virtual conversation.

April 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pamela Geller’s bus ads spread hate

Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic of Islam, has claimed a giant victory in exercising her First Amendment right to free speech ("Anti-jihad, anti-sharia ads protected by First Amendment, federal judge rules," Web, April 21).

April 26, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Family comes first

In "Suicide of a Superpower," the author Patrick Buchanan writes: "When the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, the people die. This is the progression."

April 26, 2015
In this Dec. 7, 2005 file photo, former South African President, Nelson Mandela, smiles at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg. The former political prisoner who became the country's first black president in 1994 died in December 2013 at the age of 95. Pan Macmillan said Tuesday, March 24, 2015, that it will publish the sequel to Mandela's best-selling autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" in Britain, South Africa, India and Australasia in 2016. U.S. and Canadian rights have not yet been sold. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

EDITORIAL: Moving past Turkey’s Armenian massacre

Most Americans can't quite understand how events of previous centuries still have the power to stir anger and resentments, and make an appreciation of their common interests difficult. Well, some Americans can recall a certain anger late on a summer night after a third or even fourth bourbon and branch water, but the feeling quickly goes away. Nations, after all, do not have permanent friends, in Lord Palmerston's famous explanation to Queen Victoria, but nations do have permanent interests and memories of a civil war no longer poisons those interests on these shores.

April 23, 2015
Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, says he'll try to force the Senate to vote on a bill halting the subsidy that lawmakers and their staffs get to pay for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges, saying that's a benefit no other American receives, so Congress shouldn't either. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: David Vitter tries to close Congress’ Obamacare loophole

Successful congressional candidates of both parties often -- perhaps usually -- suffer amnesia when they get to Washington, and get a glance of the vast buffet of perks Congress votes for itself. They forget a lot of the promises they made during their successful campaigns for Congress. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, a Republican, has not forgotten. He's trying to find out who certified that Congress is a "small business" so its members and their highly paid staffs could be eligible for an Obamacare subsidy for employees of businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

April 23, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Limit government, grow America

Preceded by government growth under Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, as well as the Sixteenth Amendment, six years of an Obama administration has turned the federal expanse into a terminal case of social, political, economic and national-security disease.

April 23, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Congress, media failing to do duty

In his recent op-ed,"To run toward the breach — or to run away" (Web, April 21), Clifford May notes that the critical issue in President Obama's Iran deal is whether Congress will allow it to compromise America's sovereignty. It is shocking that this should even be a matter of choice.

April 23, 2015