THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Most employers don’t have all-female staffs

President Obama and the Democrats claim that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn, because employers think they can get away with paying women less. The claim is absurd on its face.

April 10, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: State Dept. ignored key 1999 recommendations

At every House or Senate hearing on the Benghazi attacks, the Democrats say with one voice that we need to know what went wrong so we can fix it.

April 10, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What does ‘American’ mean anymore?

There is a new movement gaining momentum because of frustration over an intrusive, overbearing federal government and its obsession with multiculturalism.

April 10, 2014

EDITORIAL: Hollywood challenges Kentucky with big money for Grimes

Hollywood is all about pretense and posturing — beautiful plastic people pretending to be someone else, declaiming against a backdrop of facades that look like buildings. So why wouldn't Hollywood open its checkbooks to contribute to Alison Lundergan Grimes?

April 9, 2014

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare albatross looms for Democrats in November

When Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will take back the House in November, it's hard to tell whether she really believes it, imbibing whatever's popular this week in San Francisco, or whether she's just whistling past the congressional graveyard.

April 9, 2014

EDITORIAL: Cochran turns catfish into pork

Ahandful of congressmen are trying to cut wasteful spending, but certain bottom feeders in Congress stand in the way. Everybody's tax dollars, "invested" in redundant and useless government programs, continue to slip down the drain.

April 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Plane search going in wrong direction

For 30 days, 26 nations have been scouring the surface of the Indian Ocean with airplanes and ships, and even a few satellites, looking in vain for a debris field from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

April 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pact with China isn’t fair deal for Taiwan

I enjoyed John J. Tkacik's op-ed essay on the Taiwan situation. Aside from the meticulous accounting Mr. Tkacik does of the downsides of the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) for Taiwan, I think that the issue hinges on the meaning of trade — and the student demonstrators are well aware of this.

April 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Marriage just another issue to manage

After naming Pope Francis "Person of the Year" in 2013, the gay community now directs its wrath at the pope's stance on marriage. Such misapprehension disappears when we allow the Bill of Rights to resolve the marriage issue.

April 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Religious freedom trumps state dictates

Religious liberty was a primary reason early settlers endured the difficult conditions they encountered in the New World. Historical accounts tell us almost half the Pilgrims died during their first winter in Massachusetts.

April 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Uninsured rate still well up from 2008

What a joke. Liberals are euphoric because Gallup reported last month that the percentage of uninsured people has dropped from 17.1 percent at the end of 2013 to 15.6 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

April 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Allow private health care industry to do job

The Democrats fighting President Obama over Medicare are up for re-election. The Democrats who continue to support Obamacare talking points designed to eliminate Medicare Advantage in order to help pay for Obamacare are not.

April 8, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan needs Trade in Services pact with Beijing

The "Taiwan struggles in China's grip" commentary by John J. Tkacik (Web, April 1) mischaracterizes the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) currently waiting to be reviewed article by article in the Legislative Yuan.

April 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: Will Holder bring charges vs. Lois Lerner in IRS scandal?

The House Ways and Means Committee will vote Wednesday to ask the Justice Department to file criminal charges against Lois Lerner for using the fright-making power of the Internal Revenue Service to hobble Tea Party groups.

April 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: An outbreak of common sense on vaccines

The childhood scourge of measles is making a comeback. The highly contagious disease was all but eradicated in the United States more than a decade ago, but an outbreak in California has infected 50 persons so far this year.

April 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: The White House’s ‘equal pay’ hypocrisy

Democrats are down in the polls, way down, so they're fishing for something — anything — to set off flutters in the hearts of their faithful on the way to November. We can expect a sequel to the "War on Women" campaign.

April 8, 2014

EDITORIAL: Another red line for Obama, this time with Iran, Aboutalebi

Old wounds can heal, but not if they're continually picked at. Iran is a wound that never closes, owing to the Islamic regime's determined efforts to prevent it.

April 7, 2014