THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Md. wind-power project threatens bald eagles

Pioneer Green Energy seems determined to site industrial wind projects in ecologically sensitive areas with low wind resources ("Giant wind farm could deal the Chesapeake Bay a heavy blow," Web, Sept. 2).

September 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: McDonnell conviction was deserved

In determining who would be his running mate in 2012, Mitt Romney gave serious consideration to then-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. In light of McDonnell's conviction for multiple counts of corruption, it is chilling to recognize that had things turned out differently our vice president might have been this tainted man.

September 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Head Start lives up to its name

The Washington Times editorial "Head Start: An $8 billion, ineffective political sacred cow" (Web, Sept. 5) does not present a full picture of the benefits of Head Start.

September 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CIA contractors deserve medals over Benghazi

We now know that five CIA security contractors had to disobey orders in order to rescue State Department personnel at Benghazi nearly two years ago. In my view, the five ought to be awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom.

September 9, 2014

EDITORIAL: Playing the sexism canard at the State Department

Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News Channel talk-show host, learned last week that some Democratic women can't take criticism.

September 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: Giga-cronyism for Tesla in Nevada

When California went against Nevada in an all-out battle to see which state could bestow the bigger subsidy on Tesla, the electric carmaker, Nevada taxpayers came out $1.3 billion the poorer.

September 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: USDA’s lesson in failed stimulus

President Obama's stimulus plan will be remembered for decades — not for what it did for the economy, but what it did to the economy.

September 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Another ‘Obamanomics’ failure on joblessness

Can someone please explain to me why the Labor Department announced the August unemployment rate at 6.1 percent, yet soon after economists and pundits repudiated this number by saying the "real" unemployment rate is at 12 percent?

September 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Will amnesty finally arouse sheeplike citizenry?

We don't have a broken immigration system that needs to be reformed. We have an apathetic electorate and a corrupt ruling class made up of both Democrats and Republicans.

September 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No ‘leader for our time’ — or any time

If Barack Obama had been president on Dec. 7, 1941, the world would be a far cry from what it is today. How would Mr. Obama have described the Japanese attack?

September 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Whose side is Obama on in Middle East?

President Obama was instrumental in facilitating the removal of Hosni Mubarak as the leader of Egypt. Mr. Mubarak was a dictator, but he had maintained cordial relations with Israel for decades.

September 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let undeservedly maligned pigeons be

Thanks for the interesting, albeit tragic, Suzanne Fields column about the loss of passenger pigeons ("A bird's-eye view of extinction," Web, Sept. 3). Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife.

September 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Congress must be made to live like the rest of us

It is time for Congress to live within its means. It won't be an easy task, but it can be done, and it has to be done in order for us to keep our precious republic.

September 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Did Snowden leak golfer-in-chief’s transcripts?

After reading "Islamic State using leaked Snowden info to evade U.S. intelligence" (Web, Sept. 4), I couldn't help but speculate that the real value of Edward Snowden's espionage is that President Obama's university transcripts, which have never been publicly released and may have been stored on an NSA database that Mr. Snowden stole, are now common knowledge throughout the Islamic world.

September 5, 2014

EDITORIAL: Head Start: An $8 billion, ineffective political sacred cow

Head Start, the federal preschool program for low-income kids, is a politician's favorite. They regard the sum of the money poured into Head Start as the measurement of the depth of their concern "for the children."

September 5, 2014

EDITORIAL: Boycotting the boycotts

Membership in labor unions continues a steady decline. The latest strategem by the American Postal Workers Union offers a perfect example of why so many want so little to do with the vanishing few.

September 5, 2014

EDITORIAL: The ‘monetary-easing’ money trap

There's nothing more addictive to government than the ability to flood the market with paper currency. It seems like a solution, but it's not.

September 5, 2014

EDITORIAL: Striking for a $10 fast-food burger

Labor organizers orchestrated a rowdy series of protests against fast-food restaurants Thursday, demanding a doubling of the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Who wouldn't want that, even without fries?

September 4, 2014

EDITORIAL: A court-packing payoff for Obamacare

Whoever said cheaters never win never met a president with an unrestrained ambition to make big government bigger, and damn the Constitution. Three new judges of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rode to the rescue of Obamacare on Thursday.

September 4, 2014

EDITORIAL: Holder’s double standard on a ‘Ferguson’ in Utah

There are police shootings, and then there are police shootings. The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who seem to show up at such shootings before the lawyers or the rescue squads, apparently haven't heard about the shooting of Dillon Taylor, 20, in Salt Lake City.

September 4, 2014