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EDITORIAL: Bailing out Obamacare

You don't need a degree in higher math to see that the numbers for President Obama's health care takeover don't add up. Obamacare doles out generous subsidies to the elderly in the expectation that healthy young people will pay higher premiums to cover the added costs of insuring the old.

February 9, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Maryland needs change from O’Malley

Marylanders have an important decision to make this year. We will either decide to continue the tax-and-spend agenda and the exit of businesses and Marylanders to other states, or we will embark upon a journey of restoration for our state. What choice will you make?

February 9, 2014
U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry holds a copy of the 387 page report of the Advisory Committe to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service on the relationship of smoking to health Jan. 11, 1964. He spoke at a Washington news conference at which the study was released. It termed smoking a health hazard calling for corrective action. (AP Photo/hwg)

EDITORIAL: Smoke signals from CVS

Tobacco is the nanny state's favorite punching bag. Attention-seeking politicians win headlines by introducing a bill or ordinance to ban lighting up somewhere. This requires an ever-creative imagination, because most restaurants, bars, stores and workplaces are already off-limits.

February 6, 2014
** FILE ** In this June 12, 2013, file photo, workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workers at Volkswagen's only U.S. factory will decide in February 2014 whether to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/ Erik Schelzig, file)

EDITORIAL: VW workers face a choice in Chattanooga

Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., are caught between two powerful interests. They're urged by the United Auto Workers to vote next week to join the union, with organizing help of the VW management, even though most employees apparently don't approve.

February 6, 2014
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, to testify before the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee hearing focusing on a variety of issues facing the IRS, including the ongoing investigation into the IRS targeting of certain tax exempt organizations and IRS responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: Tribute (as in bonuses) for IRS malfeasance

Good news for the employees of the Internal Revenue Service. John Koskinen, the tax agency's new director, will spread the wealth to his staff in bonuses for a job he considers well done, even if almost nobody else does. Evidence abounds that suppression of the Obama administration's political enemies is part of that job.

February 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Girl Scouts’ camp-sale decision premature

In "Iowa dispute over Girl Scouts camps heads to trial" (Web, Jan. 20), the author writes that four Girl Scout camps are being put on the market, and since this decision was made without members' approval, the members have decided to sue. The Girl Scout Council of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois claims that camping no longer interests young girls.

February 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: EU wise to court Ukraine?

Attempting to "liberate" Ukraine may be high-minded of the European Union, but it poses important questions ("Back to the future: Russia slams West's support for Ukraine opposition," Web, Feb. 1.)

February 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MyRA accounts fleece middle class

The myRA is another Democratic program to plunder what is left of the middle class. The only thing remarkable about what has transpired in the past five years is that the middle class has voted repeatedly to commit suicide.

February 6, 2014
This undated frame grab provided by SodaStream, shows the company's 2014 Super Bowl commercial. SodaStream’s ad features “Her” actress Scarlett Johansson promoting its at-home soda maker and will run in the fourth quarter. The ad, which promotes the product as a healthier and less wasteful way to make soda, made waves ahead of the game when the company said it would delete its last line, “Sorry, Coke and Pepsi,” at a request by Fox. (AP Photo/SodaStream)

EDITORIAL: SodaStream unfairly targeted by foes of Israel

With such a blowout result, most fans outside Seattle reckoned Super Bowl XLVIII to be a bit of a dud. The real entertainment was the much-anticipated war between the commercials and the championship battle of the big-budget, game-time television pitches for the usual array of things that shimmer and shine.

February 5, 2014
NBC via Associated PressJay Leno brings his successor, Jimmy Fallon, onto the "Tonight" show stage. Mr. Fallon, who will take the iconic late-night show from Los Angeles to New York starting Feb. 17, said Mr. Leno is the "nicest guy in the business."

EDITORIAL: Leno, Seinfeld don’t toe PC line on comedy

The problem with political jokes, as someone said, is that they sometimes get elected to Congress. A bit harsh, no doubt, but the mother lode of material for late-night television comedians runs from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other.

February 5, 2014
** FILE ** In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking to the media at the British Foreign Office in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

EDITORIAL: The Massachusetts Obamacare Boondoggle

Since we're stuck with Obamacare for the foreseeable future, Congress ought to pay attention to fixing the most indefensible features of the health care disaster it imposed on the country.

February 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s military purge is frightening

For the first time in my life, I am ashamed and afraid of the current government. This is the most audacious move to seize control of the military that I have ever witnessed, and the American people have no idea it is occurring before their eyes.

February 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Service members used as political tools

Reflecting on the long ovation given to the Army Ranger during President Obama's recent State of the Union address caused me to remember an incident described in one of the histories I read about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

February 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: IRS bonus idea is laughable

New Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen wants to pay bonuses to employees at the IRS. If he wants to pay them, fine — let him take the money out of his own pocket, not mine.

February 5, 2014
Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, left, campaigns for Michigan's new 14th district congressional seat at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Detroit. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare lie as an option

Obamacare's woes grow daily, but liberals celebrate denial. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) peered into its crystal ball to see what the president's health care takeover holds in store for the economy, and the answer isn't pretty.

February 4, 2014
An activist dressed as a polar bear participates in a protest vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Washington, urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline following the release of the State Department’s new environmental assessment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s basketball strategy on Keystone XL

Affordable power dissolves liberal fantasies. White House wise men insist on spending the public's money to promote retro power plants such as windmills, which went out of fashion with the Industrial Revolution.

February 4, 2014