THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Connecticut revolts against gun controls that could criminalize 300,000

Laws are more than just symbolic gestures. Connecticut's General Assembly must come to grips with this truth before its recent effort to "save lives" ends up destroying them.

February 19, 2014

EDITORIAL: CBO says minimum-wage increase could hurt economy

Hold on to your wallet. President Obama is calling on Congress to "give America a raise." Mr. Obama is never so generous as when he's spending someone else's money.

February 19, 2014

EDITORIAL: Facebook’s gender confusion

The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut was a man ahead of his time when he observed, "A sane person, to an insane society, must appear insane." Only a society that has lost its marbles would find the need to enumerate more than four dozen "genders" above and beyond the trusty male and female options.

February 19, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Leaking security information imperils lives

Like Andrew P. Napolitano, I cherish the First Amendment and the freedom of the press. However, Mr. Napolitano, a former judge, would do well to remember the words of another distinguished jurist, Justice Robert H. Jackson: The Bill of Rights is not a "suicide pact."

February 19, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Free-speech rights for all, not just select few

As the tolerance for more liberal ideals has increased among the American public, conservative ideals have been suppressed. The author of a biography of 18th-century French philosopher Voltaire coined the phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

February 19, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Is the GOP serious about winning?

As a conservative Republican, I cannot understand the logic of Speaker of the House John A. Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell concerning the national debt. We all know that if the United States keeps borrowing, we will end up like Greece.

February 19, 2014

EDITORIAL: A UAW defeat in Chattanooga

The bullies failed. Assembly-line workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., told the United Auto Workers last week to take an outbound Chattanooga choo-choo back to Detroit.

February 18, 2014

EDITORIAL: Gillespie gaining on Warner in Senate race in Va.

The race for the U.S. Senate in Virginia looks like a barnburner. In one corner stands Mark R. Warner, the incumbent, former telecommunications entrepreneur, one-term governor, former state Democratic chairman and the newest member of the Senate Finance Committee. In the other, Ed Gillespie, former chairman of both the Republican National Committee and the party in Virginia, political adviser to presidents and a successful businessman who has never held elective office.

February 18, 2014

EDITORIAL: Eric Holder courts the cellblock vote

Ever in search of new voting blocs, the administration is making felony disenfranchisement its latest cause. Felons who have served their time in prison are now to be called "returning citizens."

February 18, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tyranny could happen here

Columnist Robert Knight worries in "When you give liberals the Oval Office" (Commentary, Feb. 17) that we may be inching toward the socialism, which was feared 30 years ago in the "1984" of George Orwell. Actually, it may be worse than that.

February 18, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Beware Islamic radicalism posing as religion

There is political sedition undermining the U.S. Constitution, and it is going on in the form of a stealth "jihad" that has as its aim supplanting the Constitution with Islamic Shariah law.

February 18, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Who’s the real traitor?

Jonathan Pollard has had an arguable price exacted on his acknowledged and considered treasonous behavior. Meanwhile, President Obama gets to destroy America and the rest of the world with his own questionable acts of highly suspect executive impunity.

February 18, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Namesake city would disappoint Washington

It's a pity that we no longer celebrate George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday separately from Presidents Day.

February 18, 2014

EDITORIAL: Peepholes into private lives

Pity the blind pursuers of intelligence. Smart devices like smartphones, smart cars and smart meters come with sensors that gather useful information. The latest phones have built-in fitness apps that track calories consumed and steps taken to do something about it.

February 17, 2014

EDITORIAL: The unhappy anniversary of stimulus boondoggle

Five years ago this week, President Obama jump-started the economy, leading to the greatest period of sustained growth in history. No, we haven't seen it, either, but that was what he said would happen when he signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A trillion dollars later, we're no better off.

February 17, 2014

EDITORIAL: Mr. Kerry’s costly fantasies on global warming

When John F. Kerry complains of too much warming, it's usually to tell his driver to turn down the heat in the heated leather seats in the back seat of his limousine. Over his weekend in Asia, Mr. Kerry said the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Kelud was a consequence of the planet's looming fever.

February 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Caesar was last of comic golden age

Veteran comedian and pioneer of early television Sid Caesar was a genius when it came to making folks laugh, and he did so with good, clean humor.

February 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP must change to win

Even though I disagree with him over the consequences of American drug use, I think Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, gets it.

February 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Under God’ no longer?

The question of whether we are still one nation under God bothers me as much as it bothers Dr. Ben Carson. The negative power of the default setting in our schools and media — that once-positive, then neutral and now-hostile attitude toward our Creator — is real.

February 17, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Zoos should exhibit compassion, conservation

The Copenhagen Zoo killed, dissected and fed a giraffe, Marius, to their big cats while children watched. The zoo asserted that this giraffe, though healthy, possessed genes too common to be used in their breeding program. The killing was done despite both the posting of online petitions opposing it and the offers of other facilities to take Marius.

February 17, 2014