THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Obama’s unlawful Bergdahl-for-terrorists swap

President Obama was wrong earlier this year to trade five hardened terrorists from the prison at Guantanamo Bay for a deserter. Now, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has confirmed what many suspect, that the swap violated a "clear and unambiguous" law.

August 22, 2014

EDITORIAL: Licensing unemployment

Janet Yellen has a knack for understatement. The chairman of the Federal Reserve said Friday that the recession might have "caused persistent changes in the labor market's functioning." That's a polite way of telling the millions in the unemployment line to get used to it.

August 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Israel, Al-Jazeera far from neutral

While Al-Jazeera may be neutral in its reporting on the United States and select regions of the world, the same cannot be said about the Middle East and the Israeli-Arab conflict.

August 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to Foley killing was insufficient

President Obama's comments on the gruesome slaughter of journalist James Foley by the Islamic State had all the passion of a person finding a wine stain on his rug.

August 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Most in GOP voted for ‘64 Civil Rights Act

In his article about Sen. Rand Paul's appeals to black American voters, reporter Ralph Z. Hallow writes: "About half the Republicans in the House and a third in the Senate voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act."

August 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Be glad Obama wasn’t president in WWII

There have been times in this nation's history when the right people were in the right place at the right time. Thank God that President Obama and his minions were decades away in 1941.

August 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Line crossed in Perry indictment

At some point, we all have to say "Enough is enough" with certain forms of partisanship.

August 22, 2014

EDITORIAL: The naked truth about airport screening

American airline travelers, it now turns out, have surrendered their dignity for nothing.

August 21, 2014

EDITORIAL: High court hits brakes on gay marriage in Virginia

The U.S. Supreme Court rightly put the brakes on the raid on the Constitution by lower-court judges trying to speed up the proliferation of same-sex marriage.

August 21, 2014

EDITORIAL: No trophy for everyone

Bear Bryant, the famous football coach at Alabama, disdained settling for a tie as something like "kissing your sister." Nothing against sisters, but a kiss is supposed to mean business.

August 21, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Replace current clueless leadership

The rule of law, colorblind as it is, and its process applies to all 50 states, including Missouri.

August 21, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fast-food workers needs manners, too

I must assume that an irritating problem our family is encountering in local fast-food establishments is not unique to us. Routinely, when we order our food, the person taking the order asks us multiple times to repeat our requests.

August 21, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Conditions ripe for GOP to take Senate

Only poor leadership and stupidity will get in the way of a big win for Republicans in November.

August 21, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thuggery must be confronted, not condoned

Ferguson, Mo., is another example of violence, looting, destruction of property and injury to the economy undertaken by so-called "activists" inciting protests.

August 21, 2014

EDITORIAL: Trouble in the red-light district

Not so long ago, politicians paraded accident victims before the cameras at press conferences announcing the arrival of red-light cameras. These were not perp walks, but prop walks.

August 20, 2014

EDITORIAL: Al Gore vs. Al-Jazeera

How do you say "buyer's remorse" in Arabic? The Qatari royal family likely feels the pangs of regret for paying the princely sum of $500 million to Al Gore and friends to give Al-Jazeera America a slot on satellite-TV and cable channels.

August 20, 2014

EDITORIAL: The Obama tee party

Trouble in the St. Louis suburbs has rescued President Obama's vacation. He can play all 18 holes at the country club now, safe in the knowledge that he's distracting voters from all the scandals, mismanagement and foreign and domestic policies that are the legacy of his administration.

August 20, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: TSA holds employees to highest standard

James Bovard's "A cure for the common queue at the airport" (Web, Aug. 14) is misleading, inaccurate and unfairly disparages the dedicated Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workforce, especially those who work on the front lines to protect the nation's transportation systems.

August 20, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama to blame for Islamic State’s rise

Not since the times of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Adolf Hitler have we seen a movement like the Islamic State take over a country to enslave a people to an ideology.

August 20, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: McAuliffe shirking duty to taxpayers

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced recently that the commonwealth faces a $2.4 billion deficit over the next three years. More than 250,000 illegal immigrants have invaded Virginia --- at the cost of $1.7 billion per year.

August 20, 2014