THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Jim Moran’s health care epiphany

Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia rarely holds his tongue (and never his punches), but he was the loyal Democratic soldier when it was time to vote for Obamacare. His pending retirement from Congress has freed him now to finally say what he thinks about the president's takeover of the nation's health care.

January 30, 2014

EDITORIAL: A flash of truth on speed-camera cash

The Baltimore Sun reports some interesting statistics about the revenue cameras that have been harassing drivers passing through Charm City for years. One of every 10 speeding tickets records a speed reading that's completely made up.

January 30, 2014

EDITORIAL: Freeing children from bad teachers

California is a national trendsetter, and usually not in a good way. A trial now under way in Los Angeles gives the state a chance to redeem itself by changing a system that offers iron-clad job security to the laziest and most incompetent teachers.

January 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: E-voting could solve voter-ID issue

Although it falls short of an optimal solution, I endorse the findings of the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which has proposed numerous means to make voting easier, including expanding online registration, convenient early voting, improved technology and ensuring proper training and education for poll workers.

January 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Energy is not same as power

I don't know the background of the author of "Reconsider the petrodollar economy" (Jan. 10), but it is hard to take his position seriously when he confuses energy and power — two entirely different concepts.

January 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Southerners banding together aren’t ‘wimps’

"Weather wimps: Snow dusting leaves Southerners sleeping in cars, Home Depot" (Web, Jan. 29) could have been worded differently. What makes the article unwelcome is the fact that fun was made of a desperate situation that families faced this week.

January 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Party allegiance trumps Constitution

Andrew P. Napolitano's essay beginning every sentence with "What if" consists of a litany of impeachable offenses by President Obama ("A sorry State of the Union," Commentary, Jan. 30). Mr. Napolitano paints a vivid picture of the president's overreaching and usurping of his power against the Constitution of the United States.

January 30, 2014

EDITORIAL: Turbans, tattoos and beards in military

Uniforms are "uniform" for a reason. The military requires hair to be cut to a certain length, tattoos must not overtake the neckline, crawl under short sleeves or otherwise showcase an inked army of one.

January 29, 2014

EDITORIAL: Nominee for Norway embarrassingly unprepared

William F. Buckley once said that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty at Harvard. A fair point, but President Obama seems to be taking Mr. Buckley's remark a bit too literally.

January 29, 2014

EDITORIAL: All the president’s pens and executive orders

Ever the huckster, rarely the statesman, President Obama continued the pitch for the spending schemes he presented Tuesday night in his State of the Union speech. On Wednesday, he began a road trip to take him to carefully assembled fawning crowds in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

January 29, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A scam by any other name

One sure sign of a scam is an offering with a title that's the opposite of what the scam is really about. One of the best, most recent examples of this is the Affordable Care Act.

January 29, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Brick wall’ GOP is all we have to stop Obama

I have just read for the umpteenth time that a Democrat has accused the Tea Party of not allowing President Obama to put his policies into effect. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently said the "anti-Obama" GOP erects a brick wall to Mr. Obama's policies. Hallelujah.

January 29, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fewer wealthy wouldn’t mean less poverty

For more than five years, our president has failed to ignite economic growth with his spending, regulating and taxing policies. Initially, he and his lemmings were able to blame President George W. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

January 29, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to rewrite GOP playbook

It's time to focus comprehensively on what Republicans are no longer doing well. Republicans have stopped teaching people and communities how to be richer, more economically sound and profitable at work.

January 29, 2014

EDITORIAL: Another night, another speech

The words on the teleprompter were changed for Tuesday night, but when Americans woke up Wednesday morning, nothing else had changed.

January 28, 2014

EDITORIAL: The president of pot

President Obama says smoking pot is no big deal. Not every man who has lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been a paragon of virtue, nor is perfection expected there (or anywhere else). But it's jarring when the president of the United States plays apologist for vice.

January 28, 2014

EDITORIAL: No shield from scrutiny for the IRS in Christine O’Donnell case

There's no mystery about why the three letters IRS strike fear into every heart. As far back as 1819, nearly a century before the income tax was imposed by Congress, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall observed that the power to tax is the power to destroy. The IRS has perfected and refined the power.

January 28, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop the feds’ Common Core for schools

If the central planners and progressive bureaucrats get their way, teaching the Constitution to American schoolchildren will be a thing of the past.

January 28, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Government is for citizens, not politicians

It is too bad that Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, his fellow Democrats and the mainstream media are going after the people in the Tea Party and others who have opinions different from those of the Obama administration.

January 28, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Texas’ Davis is a stranger to transparency

By now, everyone who follows politics is aware of Texas gubernatorial candidate and darling of the left Wendy Davis and her casual relationship with the full details of her single-mom-in-a-trailer-to-Harvard-Law-School biography.

January 28, 2014