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President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of Air Force One, upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, after returning from a trip to Pennsylvania. Emphasizing skills training as key to a growing middle class, Obama on Wednesday announced $600 million in competitive grants to spur creation of targeted training and apprenticeship programs to help people land good-paying jobs. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

EDITORIAL: The federal job-training boondoggle

No problem is so insurmountable that it can't be solved with a government program. If the program doesn't work, the government has a remedy for that, too — another government program.

April 23, 2014
Illustration 2012 Electoral College by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Raiding the Electoral College

The fondest dream of the modern Democrat is to neutralize the votes of the yokels in Peoria and put important decisions in the hands of sophisticates in places like San Francisco and Manhattan.

April 23, 2014
This March 27, 2014 photo provided by the National Park Service shows P-22 a 4 year old male mountain lion who was recaptured in late March by National Park Service biologists. The mountain lion known to traverse the hills in and around Los Angeles’ largest park has been exposed to rat poison and is suffering from mange. Scientists noticed the big cat known as P-22 was sickly when they recaptured it last month to replace the batteries in its GPS tracking collar. (AP Photo/National Park Service)

EDITORIAL: Downsize bloated National Park Service

The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees to America's national parks and historic sites during National Parks Week. The freebies continue until April 27, but taxpayers aren't getting a bargain, considering that the swollen agency spends $2.6 billion a year.

April 22, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pelosi’s foot-washing backwash

Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Bishop Marc Andrus in washing the feet of two children in San Francisco on Good Friday, ostensibly a gesture to "honor the dignity and work of immigrants," as she put it.

April 22, 2014
**FILE** Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is releasing a sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth," his 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary on climate change. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Over a barrel on Earth Day

If only Al Gore had won the presidency, he wouldn't have to take out his frustrations on those of us who just want to enjoy the bounty God bequeathed to us.

April 21, 2014
FILE - This April 19, 2012 file photo shows a truck traveling along highway 14, several miles north of Neligh, Neb. near the proposed new route for the Keystone XL pipeline. The US is extending indefinitely the amount of time federal agencies have to review the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department said Friday, likely punting the decision over the controversial oil pipeline until after the midterm elections. The State Department didn’t say how much longer it will grant agencies to weigh in, but cited a recent decision by a Nebraska judge that overturned a state law that allowed the pipeline's path through the state, prompting uncertainty and an ongoing legal battle. Nebraska’s Supreme Court isn’t expected to rule for another several months and there could be more legal maneuvering after that, potentially freeing President Barack Obama to avoid making a final call on the pipeline until after the election in November. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

EDITORIAL: Needlessly locking up Keystone XL pipeline

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Joe Biden scorned John McCain's economic plan. It "does nothing to tackle the No. 1 job facing the middle class," said Mr. Biden in one of his many unintended laugh lines, "and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word — jobs, J-O-B-S, jobs."

April 21, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ignoring the Ninth Amendment

There is a part of our Constitution that the the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court have forgotten or deliberately ignored: the Ninth Amendment. The amendment states, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

April 21, 2014
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, left, holds up a copy of the Constitution as Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens at right as the panel debates whether to find former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for her previous refusal to answer questions at two hearings probing whether tea party and conservative political groups had been targeted for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Thursday, April 10, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: More Lerner smoking-gun emails at IRS

More than 60 percent of voters in a new poll think President Obama and the truth are often strangers. That explains the president's recent insistence that there isn't a "smidgen" of corruption in the Internal Revenue Service.

April 18, 2014
Republican senatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, left, and the man he hopes to unseat, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-VA, right, meet during the 66th annual Shad Planking outside of Wakefield, Va., Wednesday, April 16, 2014. In the center is House of Delegates Clerk G. Paul Nardo. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

EDITORIAL: Mark Warner running scared?

Life in a battleground state, where elections are usually won or lost, grows difficult when the candidates see November in the distance. There's no escaping the barrage of television and radio ads.

April 18, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Recent Brandeis choices disgraceful

As a gentile alumnus of Brandeis University, class of 1991, I can attest to the vigorous nature of the school's academics. However, I have been greatly dismayed by some of the frankly questionable decisions Brandeis has made over the years.

April 18, 2014