THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: DuPage is on sound financial footing

In "How a college hid $95 million in expenses like booze, shooting clubs" (Web, Oct. 2), Drew Johnson claims the College of DuPage administration has hidden vendor payments from its board of trustees. Mr. Johnson parrots without question the erroneous accusations of a political activist group, Open the Books, which has repeatedly used misleading information to attack the college.

October 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Navy morale is low for a reason

A few years ago, a client of mine wanted to invite the service chiefs and their senior noncommissioned advisers to an event at Andrews Air Force Base. At the time, I still had Pentagon access, so I opted to hand-deliver the invitations to the E Ring offices concerned.

October 7, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The FairTax would abolish the IRS

Visualize getting your whole paycheck (no federal income tax or FICA deductions) every payday. Then imagine that you would get to decide how much federal tax you pay according to what you chose to buy.

October 7, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop pandering to Islamic State terrorists

These are thrilling days for the savages of the Islamic State ("Islamic State withstands bombing campaign, plots Baghdad invasion," Web, Oct. 5). Their butchery of innocent hostages has commanded world attention, and the media have complied with their desire to receive the greatest possible degree of publicity for their barbaric actions.

October 7, 2014

EDITORIAL: Government party crashers

A man's home is his castle, except in Montville Township, N.J., where city officials want to give police the authority to crash any party.

October 7, 2014

EDITORIAL: End of the road for the metric system

The metric system lives no longer on American highways. The Arizona Department of Transportation is preparing to take down the signs on Interstate 19 that tell a motorist that it's 64 kilometers to Tucson. This is the end of the road for Jimmy Carter's idea to measure everything by the metric system in America, like it or not.

October 7, 2014

EDITORIAL: The do-nothing Congress: Who’s really at fault?

President Obama likes to kick Congress when it's down. Who would defend a body with a 14 percent approval rating? Only the Ebola virus may be less popular than Congress, but it's Mr. Obama who has imposed the gridlock.

October 7, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Redskins furor is a government creation

The Redskins name controversy is another example of political correctness causing divisiveness ("FCC will consider petition to ban 'Redskins,'" Web, Sept. 30). The government is not addressing racial tension; it is creating it.

October 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: First U.S. Ebola case was mishandled

The case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on U.S. soil, was mishandled in a number of different ways.

October 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Good, bad and ‘ugly’ carbon footprints

Australians are supposed to feel guilty because some bureaucrat in the climate industry has calculated that we have a very high per-capita "carbon-dioxide footprint." Every human activity contributes to our carbon-dioxide footprint; even just lying on the beach breathing gently produces carbon dioxide.

October 6, 2014

EDITORIAL: The league of crony voters

The League of Conservation Voters is going all in with $25 million on the table in a desperate gamble to keep the Senate in Democratic hands. "This is five times more than what we spent in 2010," Daniel Weiss, a senior vice president of the league, tells a C-SPAN interviewer.

October 6, 2014

EDITORIAL: The red state-blue state knowledge gap

Democrats may not be quite as smart as they think they are. That's the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey that posed a dozen questions about current events. Republicans emerged as the most informed in the poll.

October 6, 2014

EDITORIAL: Obama on the ballot, to Democrats’ chagrin

President Obama can be credibly accused of many things, but not of an excess of modesty. With the control of the Senate on the line, Mr. Obama is turning the spotlight on himself. Disbelieving Democrats are terrified.

October 6, 2014

EDITORIAL: Cut off Mumia’s microphone

Commencement speeches can be amusing, inspiring or, in the worst (some would say even the best) case, a bit dull. Goddard College, a small liberal arts school in Plainfield, Vt., wanted a different kind of speaker. The graduating class chose a cop killer.

October 3, 2014

EDITORIAL: No special treatment for public employees in Stockton bankruptcy

There's a silver lining in the bankruptcy filing of Stockton, Calif., and it could point the way to relief for hundreds of other cities.

October 3, 2014

EDITORIAL: Misrepresenting the U.S.’s high infant-mortality rate

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that the United States has one of the highest infant-mortality rates in the developed world. This is shocking on its face, and certain doom-criers want to declare a national emergency and get the federal government to work on reforming the American health care system.

October 3, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Food police not concerned about health

I don't eat wheat, sugar or vegetable oil, with the exception of the saturated varieties, such as coconut and palm oil. Would I ever force my food choices on someone else? Never.

October 3, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s dangerous Ebola ‘fix’

In the wake of the discovery that the deadly Ebola virus has made its way into the United States, I would like to compare the positions of Donald Trump and President Obama on the handling of this disease.

October 3, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Only one legitimate government in Cyprus

It is deeply regrettable that The Washington Times chose to publish last week a series of articles and an eight-page insert on Cyprus from a narrow, one-sided perspective --- without even paying lip service to journalistic integrity or to plain, undisputable facts.

October 3, 2014

EDITORIAL: Food police and the banning of school bake sales

Metal detectors and security guards have become a common sight in America's schools. These security measures may soon be joined by cookie-sniffing dogs and pat-downs for Pepsi at the schoolhouse door.

October 2, 2014