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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright poses with President Obama in Chicago in 2005, three years before the pastor’s comments shook the Obama campaign. (Trinity United Church of Christ via Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A presidential library of mystery

If they build it, will they come? Where will they go, to Hawaii or Illinois? Those are the first of many questions the new Barack H. Obama Foundation will have to answer about the presidential library of the 44th president. Perhaps this library will help the public understand the man who is the least known president since, well, Chester Alan Arthur.

February 4, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Create jobs, not ‘myRA’ gimmicks

With U.S. international relations going through perhaps the worst period in 40 years, the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, an economy still in the doldrums and the lowest rate of employment in more than 40 years, President Obama carved out time in his State of the Union speech to introduce his new savings plan, "myRA.''

February 4, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New leadership needed in House?

What if, after taking charge of the U.S. Congress in 2011, House Speaker John A. Boehner had told America he was going to follow the Constitution rather than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid?

February 4, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Asking the Obama ‘what if’ questions

In his excellent Commentary piece, "A sorry State of the Union" (Jan. 30), Andrew P. Napolitano could have included the following questions: What if President Obama had published an autobiography in which he listed among his favorite books he read in high school were by communists Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois and Malcolm X?

February 4, 2014
FILE - This undated file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an unmanned drone used to patrol the U.S.-Canadian border. Fears of prying from the sky have some Minnesota lawmakers seeking clamps on law enforcement’s use of unmanned aerial drones to gather evidence. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, File)

EDITORIAL: It’s a bird! It’s a drone!

Humphrey Bogart's classic line in the movie "Casablanca" could take on a sinister new meaning in the surveillance society: "Here's looking at you, kid." Last year, New Orleans toyed with the idea of using drones to watch over the Super Bowl, but the smarter people in the Big Easy dropped the idea.

February 3, 2014
** FILE ** Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's surgeon general nominee. (AP Photo/courtesy of Brigham and Women's Hospital)

EDITORIAL: The new face of Obamacare?

Obamacare isn't popular, and nobody knows it better than President Obama. In an interview with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, Mr. Obama danced around the question of why he hasn't fired Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the face of the fiasco.

February 3, 2014
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson "was impressed with Mr. Marrone's integrity and management abilities" while serving together at the Department of Defense, a DHS spokesman said.

EDITORIAL: Obama picks a crook’s errand boy for Homeland Security

Jeh C. Johnson, only recently confirmed as chief of the Department of Homeland Security, is off to an inglorious start. As our own Jim McElhatton and Kelly Riddell reported Monday, Mr. Johnson's own right-hand man, Christian Marrone, was previously the right-hand man of a Philadelphia politician with a felonious bent.

February 3, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Instead of banning marijuana, tax it

Your Jan. 29 editorial, "The president of pot," makes the common mistake of assuming that marijuana prohibition deters marijuana use. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success.

February 3, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Child car seats and the nanny-state mentality

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking regulations to require child-seat modifications for children weighing up to 40 pounds. It would be interesting to learn how many millions (or billions) of dollars are going into the testing of these child seats and the reissuing of regulations to require manufacturers to change their seat models.

February 3, 2014
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. fields a flurry of phone calls in his Capitol Hill office in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, after he announced that he would retire after 40 years in the House of Representatives. Waxman, 74, has been a liberal force in the House, focusing on clean air issues, investigating the tobacco industry, expanding Medicaid and helping to write and enact the 2010 Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo)

EDITORIAL: The bark of the Blue Dog Democrat Chihuahuas

Blue Dogs are a vanishing breed, rarer than the Bedlington terrier or the Tibetan mastiff. Defeats, retirements and redistricting have decimated the ranks of the Democratic caucus that styles itself as the party's "centrist wing."

January 31, 2014
** FILE ** The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Confronting race-baiting at MSNBC

The race card is the overworked joker in the deck of every media and political hack. When a Democratic partisan lays it on the table, the Republican instinct is to head for the exit, leaving his cards, chips and courage behind.

January 31, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exploiting veterans for a political agenda

I was extremely annoyed at President Obama's State of the Union address, as well as the response the speech got from Republicans. As an independent voter, I can't understand how the Republicans can ignore Mr. Obama's veiled threats to bypass Congress.

January 31, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On e-cigarette petition, administration blowing smoke

Stephen Dinan's story about the "We the People" petition site has the subheading "Obama is given credit for trying" ("Deport Justin Bieber: White House goes mum on 'We the People' petition site," Web, Jan. 28). Not by former smokers who finally quit by switching to electronic cigarettes.

January 31, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Shuttering ‘sheltered’ workshops ill-advised

Proposed federal regulations designed to close down "sheltered" workshops are outrageous ("R.I. to move disabled out of 'segregated' workshops," Web, Jan. 17). The majority of individuals who work in these facilities will not find jobs in private businesses because they cannot produce at expected levels.

January 31, 2014