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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Homosexuality a choice, not basis for civil rights

Civil rights in our nation are provided to citizens on the basis of who they are, not what they do. The fact of being a banker, farmer, priest, plumber, senator, president or any other modern-society job grants no one any civil rights. But those same individuals do have civil rights on the basis of their race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap or national origin. And all of these are components of who these citizens are, not what they do.

April 9, 2015
In this Nov. 10, 2009, photo, soldiers salute as they honor victims of the Fort Hood shooting at a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas. The Army said in a letter addressed to Congress on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 that the victims of the 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded will receive the Purple Hearts many have said they deserve. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Honor at Fort Hood

There's a difference, you might say, between a hero and a zero, and President Obama has blurred that difference in Washington. But the Bard was right, truth will out, and so was Abraham Lincoln, you can't fool all the people all the time, not even at the White House. Several heroes are about to get their just rewards.

April 9, 2015
Palestinian residents of the besieged refugee camp of Yarmouk wait at the gate of the camp to receive aid supplies from the United Nations on the southern edge of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The deteriorating situation brought on by Syria's civil war prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting Monday, April 6, 2015, to discuss Yarmouk, calling for safe evacuation for the Palestinians, protection for the refugees, and humanitarian access to the camp. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

EDITORIAL: ISIS takes over Syrian refugee camp, no one comes to rescue

The barbarians of ISIS no longer have the ability to surprise anyone. They have beheaded innocents, set a captive afire in a cage, taught children how to shoot to kill at point-blank range, and murdered Christians only because they worship the Christ. The West is outraged, both for the brutality and by its frustration for not doing much about it.

April 8, 2015
Republican Presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks, Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Milford, N.H. Paul, a newly declared Republican presidential candidate, is dodging a central question about abortion: What exceptions, if any, should be made if the procedure were to be banned? In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Paul would not say where, in his view, a pregnant woman’s rights begin and those of the fetus end.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

EDITORIAL: Rand Paul makes presidential bid official

If diversity is the secret of winning politics, the Republicans are running the most ambitious cafeteria in town, featuring the favorite dishes of several freshman senators fired by both conviction and ambition. If a hungry customer doesn't see what he wants, there's probably something else coming from the kitchen.

April 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Iran, no one to trust

President Obama appears to be on the road again, electronically speaking, hyping the yet-to-be-agreed-upon nuclear deal with Iran. He is pitching a scenario that is totally opposite from the one Iran is relating. Both cannot be right.

April 8, 2015
FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. American politicians like to pick and choose when they’ll abide by the storied notion that politics should stop at the water's edge, and when to give that idea a kick in the pants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Jews consider Republican Party

That pop and crackle in the air is the sound of strains on a romance, like the noise of a cooling wood stove. The Jewish love affair with the Democratic Party has not gone bust by any means but it's beginning to frazzle at the edges, as unrequited love inevitably does. The Democratic left, which now dominates the party, does not like Israel very much.

April 7, 2015
In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald talks to reporters after a jury found former Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty on one count of the 24 counts against him in his federal corruption trial. in Chicago. Robert Blagojevich the brother of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich offers fresh details in a new book to back his contention prosecutors used him as a pawn to get his younger sibling on charges he sought to hock President Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. While charges were eventually dropped against him, the Tennessee businessman, says his refusal to turn on his brother made him "collateral damage" of an overzealous prosecution that cost his reputation, $1 million in legal bills and a still-unrepaired family split. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

EDITORIAL: Scooter Libby witness accuses Justice prosecutors of steering testimony

Prosecutors, like cops, usually deal with people who aren't very nice. Prosecutors at every level rarely see the occasional bursts of human kindness that lead the rest of us to see the good among the bad. Unfortunately, some prosecutors, blind to the good among the bad, conclude that evildoers don't deserve a break, that the important thing is to get evildoers behind bars, so anything goes. If no actual evildoers are available, make one up.

April 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama Iran strategy clear failure

Iran sanctions work, and if necessary they and a show worldwide of U.S. military and economic strength must be increased. The liberal-left, anti-war withdrawal strategy of President Barack Obama and the Democrats has not and will not stop the Iran ballistic-missile and nuclear-warhead program. It does not stop Iran from taking over the Middle East, gobbling up Iraq and Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. It does not stop Iran from endangering Israel or the Arab states, nor does it halt Russian expansion.

April 7, 2015
Homes with swimming pools border the desert of this neighborhood Friday, April 3, 2015, in Cathedral City, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

EDITORIAL: California drought

California excess is the stuff of the tabloids, often entertainment for all, but the drought is not funny. Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered mandatory water restrictions for the first time, extending them far beyond the manicured lawns of Brentwood, the vineyards of Sonoma and the Napa Valley and the scenic coastline of picture postcards. When the going gets tough, the tough will have to turn off the taps. It's going to hurt.

April 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s Middle East disaster

President Obama said his Iran nuclear deal is good, which is what he says about everything he has done ("Obama takes victory lap on 'historic' nuclear deal with Iran," Web, April 2). Were Obamacare and Mr. Obama's energy, economic, diplomatic, military and immigration actions and policies (or the framework for the deal with Iran) good or really bad? The latter has to be the answer. Climate change is not our biggest threat for the next century; the biggest threat lies in our not confronting Islamic terrorists who continue to slaughter, torture and subjugate Christians, Jews and Muslims.

April 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama desperate for Iran deal

In the late 1950s there was a slogan that reminds me of what is taking place between Iran and the Obama administration: "Better red than dead." It was coined as the United States was put on its heels by the Russians in talks to reduce nuclear weapons. We were reducing testing while Russia continued to test and develop more nuclear weapons.

April 6, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting on Internet startups in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on March 27, 2015. (Associated Press/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Obama should worry about Vladimir Putin’s legacy

Words enough to fill an unabridged dictionary went into the tentative "framework" that President Obama and the Western powers reached with Iran to address Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. All those words could be distilled in John Lennon's naive refrain: "All we are saying is give peace a chance." While Barack Obama was preoccupied with erecting his "framework," Vladimir Putin was busy, too, reminding his European neighbors that Mao Zedong's favorite and not-so-nave refrain still applies: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

April 6, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Africa terrorism another dark turn for continent

Africa is known as "the dark continent." Lately, it has sure earned its nickname. The recent attack by the extremist group al-Shabab on a Kenyan university that killed 147, its attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people and the constant attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria have killed thousands and resulted in hundreds of schoolchildren being kidnapped. All of this introduced another dark chapter into African history.

April 5, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s Iran legacy on long list of failures

As we witnessed President Obama desperately flailing for some kind of an agreement with the Iranians, we were reminded once again of the prime motivating force common to all of Mr. Obama's machinations: an anxiousness to construct some kind of notable legacy at the eleventh hour of his tenure.

April 5, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Leftists attack Christians with gay hypocrisy

In ancient Rome, rabid emperors gleefully threw Christians to hungry lions in the arena. In modern America, mad-dog leftists savagely throw Christians to their sycophantic Democratic Party media darlings fraudulently masquerading as an objective press.

April 5, 2015