THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Soda tax promotes a blame-others culture

If their goal is to fight obesity, perhaps residents of San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., should place a huge tax on marijuana, since the drug is known to make people hungry.

July 25, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ship tours can foster dialogue

The rationale behind the arguments against Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert's offering his Chinese naval counterpart a tour of a U.S. aircraft carrier is intriguing.

July 25, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Latin leaders profit from illegals

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The presidents of Honduras and Guatemala, whose governments have for years run criminal enterprises to profit from illegal human trafficking, are actually accusing the Obama administration of being a willing partner in this enterprise.

July 25, 2014

EDITORIAL: Cellphones, steering wheels and safety

It's difficult for some people not to tell other people what to do, and sometimes it's a shame that people have to be told what they ought to have figured out themselves.

July 25, 2014

EDITORIAL: Obama’s ‘economic patriotism’ means higher taxes

These past five years have been very good for Wall Street and administration cronies, donors and other campaign benefactors. The revolving door between corporations and government has never spun faster than under President Obama, who once promised he wouldn't hire lobbyists.

July 25, 2014

EDITORIAL: Stopping police asset-forfeiture predators

When the public is more afraid of the cops than the bad guys, the system is broken.

July 25, 2014

EDITORIAL: More Kennedy snake-oil medicine

Poking fun at liberals and their schemes is good sport. When they draw up a solution to the world's ills, the result is always waste, duplication, fraud and disaster. Sometimes those ideas from the fringe can be downright dangerous.

July 24, 2014

EDITORIAL: Gun-shy Obama

His triumph in 2012 gave President Obama the flexibility he wanted to begin an all-out push for gun control.

July 24, 2014

EDITORIAL: Detroit’s water ‘spigot bigots’

Some people find racism everywhere they look, even in the kitchen faucet. In Detroit, the NAACP has applied the "racist" label to a public water works because it's shutting off service to customers who won't pay their water bill.

July 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No U.S. support for Christian peril

Here in the United States, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center tried banning Bible reading in its service hospital, Obama appointees have made it a crime for chaplains and troops to share their faith in the Department of Defense, U. S. military commanders are prohibited from publishing religious programs and services, and a defense directive put Christians in the same category as the Islamic terrorist group that attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001.

July 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama fundraises as the world burns

Those who feign surprise at the worldwide slaughter of innocents and the refusal of leaders to call out those who commit these acts are responsible for allowing them to continue. Past U.S. presidents took the lead in rallying support to stop these evil acts.

July 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump-Carson a 2016 dream ticket

I've been reading that Dr. Ben S. Carson, the world famous neurosurgeon, won the recent Western Conservative Summit straw poll in Denver by a convincing margin over the runner-up, Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican ("Carson wins straw poll as conservatives focus on winning battle of ideas," Web, July 20). I like Dr. Carson a lot — but not as president this time around.

July 24, 2014