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FILE - In this June 17, 2014, file photo, Washington Redskins helmets sit on the field during an NFL football minicamp in Ashburn, Va. 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: Feds patently wrong about the Redskins name

White man truly speak with forked tongue. In a ruling as slippery as Bill Clinton's famous definition of what the meaning of the word "is" is, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decided Wednesday to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademarks.

June 18, 2014
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, reflects on the stunning primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., Thursday, June 12, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake-up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake. Boehner told reporters he's declining to take sides in the contest to replace Cantor as House majority leader. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: Abandoning orphan earmarks

Earmarks feed the congressional favor factory. They're the reward House and Senate leaders hand out to members in return for toeing the party line.

June 17, 2014
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers a keynote speech during the annual Western Governors' Association Meeting, at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency promoted currently proposed clean power plant rules to Western governors Tuesday, framing the plan as a way to deal with destructive wildfires and floods that have ravaged the region in recent years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

EDITORIAL: The EPA’s Houdini bureaucrat

The ghost of master magician Harry Houdini lives at the Environmental Protection Agency, where agency officials routinely make common sense and tax money disappear without a trace.

June 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More ‘Chicago way’ shenanigans

It should come as no surprise that at this late date the Internal Revenue Service reveals that two years' worth of Lois Lerner's emails to officials in other departments of the government have disappeared. This is the "Chicago way."

June 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Shame on N.Y.’s mayor, police commissioner

Every politician has his little flunky. New York Mayor City Bill de Blasio brought Police Commissioner Bill Bratton along with him in the city to end stop-and-frisk. Commissioner Bratton kisses up to Mr. de Blasio the way Vice President Joe Biden kisses up to President Obama.

June 17, 2014
Rose Mary Woods

EDITORIAL: IRS: ‘The dog ate the emails’

Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary, took the blame four decades ago for a mysterious 18-minute gap in an audio tape-recording of what was going on in the Oval Office during the Watergate investigation.

June 16, 2014
FILE - This March 29, 2010 file photo shows then-Ohio Rep. Steve Driehaus in Cincinnati. The Supreme Court appears to be highly skeptical of laws that try to police false statements during political campaigns, raising doubts about the viability of such laws in more than 15 states. The case began during the 2010 election when a national anti-abortion group, the Susan B. Anthony List, planned to put up billboards accusing then-Rep. Driehaus of supporting taxpayer-funded abortion because he voted for President Barack Obama's new health care law. Driehaus, a Democrat who opposes abortion, claimed the group's billboard ads distorted the truth and therefore violated the false speech law. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)

EDITORIAL: Calling off the speech police

Some politicians upset by the Supreme Court's reinvigorated defense of the First Amendment just can't resist the temptation to use the courts to shut down the free speech of others.

June 16, 2014