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** FILE ** In this Sept. 23, 2012, file photo, Washington Redskins punter Sav Rocca carries a football in his helmet before an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Landover, Md. The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday, June 18, 2014, that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled. The ruling comes after a campaign to change the name has gained momentum over the past year. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

EDITORIAL: Politically correct war paint

Flush with success at drawing attention to themselves by condemning the name of the Washington Redskins as "racist," the professional umbrage takers are expanding their crusade to the makers of household paint and military helicopters.

July 1, 2014
A presentation prepared in 2010 for then-EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson made clear that a pre-emptive veto "had never been done before in the history" of the Clean Water Act and could risk litigation. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Gassing the environment

It's not easy being green. Environmentalists must not only take a stand for a cleaner and colder planet, but must embrace contradiction with the enthusiasm of a Zen master.

July 1, 2014
FILE - In this July 4, 2013 file photo, residents and visitors of Alexander's Lake sit out on their docks and in small boats as they watch neighborhood fireworks on Independence Day, in Dayville, Conn. Highways will be packed once again this July Fourth weekend, with 41 million Americans predicted to travel at least 50 miles or more. That’s up about 2 percent from the 40.3 million who traveled during last year’s Independence Day weekend, according to auto club AAA. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

EDITORIAL: No holiday from the lawgivers

The Fourth of July is for celebrating the freedoms the Founding Fathers won for us, but sometimes July 1 is the day some of us want to give those freedoms back to government.

June 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP is its own worst enemy

Politics in America today have become so unbelievable that I often wish events were only the imagination of a Hollywood screenwriter with a penchant for ever-thickening plots ("Chris McDaniel's campaign to investigate 'irregularities' in Mississippi runoff," Web, June 26).

June 27, 2014
This undated handout photo provided by the Agriculture Department shows the deadly parasitic Varroa mite on the back of this honey bee is one of many insect pests that sugar esters may be useful in controlling. Sucrose octanoate, a sugar ester, can kill the mite without harming the bee. Nearly one out of four American honeybee colonies died this winter, but that’s not quite as bad as recent years, says a new U.S. Department of Agriculture survey of beekeepers. Under siege from parasites, disease, pesticide use, nutrition problems and a mysterious sudden die-off, 23 percent of bee colonies failed and experts say that’s considerably less than the previous year or the eight-year average of 30 percent losses. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, Agriculture Department)

EDITORIAL: Presidential honeybee hysteria and hype

President Obama last week directed his national-security apparatus to put aside concerns over Crimea, the Syrian bloodbath, the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda's incursion into Iraq and Beijing's ambitions in the South China Sea.

June 27, 2014