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GETTY IMAGES From left, Sens. Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, Evan Bayh of Indiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas are among the members of the newly formed Moderate Dems Working Group. The group of 15 will meet to focus on legislative battles, such as the president's $3.6 trillion budget proposal.

EDITORIAL: A 51st-state fantasy

Senate Democrats who are anxious about their re-election prospects in November are puzzled that Sen. Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, a Democrat, is pushing the fantasy of statehood for the District of Columbia so close to the November elections.

September 11, 2014
FILE - This Oct. 30, 2013 file photo shows former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger posing with Smokey Bear after the U.S. Forest Service named him their third honorary Forest Ranger for his leadership on climate change during a ceremony at the Department of Agriculture.in Washington. Smokey Bear is turning 70 on Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 _ but don’t bring any candles to the party, please. As the friendly, huggable bear with the brimmed hat and shovel enters his golden years, he's burning up Twitter, but his message of fire prevention through personal responsibility hasn’t changed _ much. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file)

EDITORIAL: Smokey the Bear’s plot against campfire fun

Smokey the Bear may be getting as soft as a marshmallow in his declining years. No longer content to stamp out forest fires and warn campers to field-strip their cigarette butts, the old growler yearns to be a chef, perhaps with his own show on the Food Network.

September 10, 2014
In this Wed., Aug. 27, 2014 photo provided by ABC, Diane Sawyer signs off on her last broadcast as anchor of "World News," in New York. Sawyer told viewers that it has been wonderful to be the "home port" of the network's news team each weeknight. She will be replaced next week by David Muir. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)

EDITORIAL: It’s cable viewers vs. broadcasters on ‘local choice’

Broadcasters popped champagne corks Wednesday when the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee canceled an expected vote on a "local choice" measure its backers said would have given cable- and satellite-TV customers more control over their channel choices.

September 10, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Souring on Wasserman Schultz’s rhetoric

Democratic National Committee Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's recent commentary that the Republicans are "grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back" implies that Republicans have no mothers, grandmothers, sisters or daughters in the family structure and are at best serial abusers of women.

September 10, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Only missile shield can thwart rogue states’ threat

The threat posed by rogue states armed with nuclear ballistic missiles is clearly on the rise. Talks to shut down Iran's nuclear-weapons program have faltered, and Tehran has now refused to cooperate with U.N. investigators seeking to determine how close it is to detonating a bomb.

September 10, 2014
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2001, file photo, S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, poses in a replica of "The Dwarf Grill," the original restaurant he started in Atlanta in 1946. A spokesman said Cathy, who started the postwar diner in Atlanta that grew into the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, died early Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

EDITORIAL: Chick-fil-A founder’s values menu

Traditional values are under relentless assault, so nothing stands out more than a businessman willing to put principle over profit. Such a man was S. Truett Cathy, the onetime short-order cook who founded Chick-fil-A.

September 9, 2014