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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, a view of the Supreme Court can be seen from the view from near the top of the Capitol Dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a clash between President Obama and Senate Republicans over the power granted the president in the Constitution to make temporary appointments to fill high-level positions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Mystery at the Supreme Court

Class-action lawsuits are the caviar and lobster for tort lawyers. Without class-action litigation, a lot of lawyers would have to find other work, law schools would close and judges could hang up their robes and leave the courthouse early for the golf course.

January 14, 2014
**FILE** President Obama (left) speaks Feb. 9, 2012, in Washington about a settlement with the nation's five largest banks over foreclosures. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is in the background. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama ignores Constitution by recognizing same-sex marriages in Utah

Barack Obama doesn't always win. Sometimes he has to settle for a tie, which Bear Bryant famously likened to "kissing your sister." A Gallup poll last year found that in his fourth year he had tied George W. Bush as the most polarizing president ever. Democrats gave Mr. Obama a job approval of 86 percent against just 10 percent for Republicans. That tied the mark set by President Bush who, at the end of his first term, held 91 percent Republican support and 15 percent among Democrats.

January 13, 2014
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 at the Statehouse in Trenton. N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

EDITORIAL: Politics ain’t beanbag

Closing several lanes of traffic on the George Washington Bridge to "punish" the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., was boneheaded, the sort of idea a junior aide suggests to catch the eye of the boss. Gov. Chris Christie's critics, who hadn't been able to lay a glove on the Teflon governor, finally had something to batter him about the head and shoulders with.

January 13, 2014
** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Dec. 12 2012, photo, Taneshia Wright, of Manhattan, fills out a job application during a job fair in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

EDITORIAL: When ‘good’ news is bad news

The unemployment rate is down, and that's bad news. Last week's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate dropping to 6.7 percent in December, down from 7 percent in November, with only 74,000 new jobs created by the economy in the month.

January 13, 2014
The speed limit at the Third Street Tunnel, normally 45 mph, was marked 40 mph for a work zone. Although the work zone seems to be gone, the speed limits have not been readjusted. A police officer who was nabbed by one of the cameras is demanding a second look at thousands of tickets issued. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Fleeing the nanny

They've taken their tie-dyes and bell bottoms up to the attic, but a certain kind of liberal hasn't changed much since disco reigned over the jukebox. They dust off a failed policy from the past and present it as something fresh and new. Last week, the British government said it would cut the 70 miles per hour speed limit to 60, all to save the environment, beginning with a stretch of motorway near Nottingham.

January 12, 2014
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.

EDITORIAL: Half an amnesty is still all bad

Jobs are scarce, and Congress is cooking up a scheme to make them scarcer. The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy created only 74,000 jobs in December, the lowest comparable number in three years, and half of those were part-time jobs. It's bad out there, and getting worse. President Obama's "recovery" is recovery with no jobs.

January 12, 2014
Fans of Insane Clown Posse are a subculture that's united over love for the music of the underground rap band and the sweet soda Faygo. "We wanna see all the Juggalos in Heaven," said band member Violent J. The band emerged from Detroit in the early '90s, donning clown makeup, mimicking the excesses of pro wrestling, and making no lyrical subject taboo. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Insane Clown Posse fans called gang threat by FBI

With two platinum albums and five gold albums, the hard-core hip-hop duo known as Insane Clown Posse has a legion of loyal fans. But none, apparently, at the FBI headquarters in Washington, where anyone who listens to the posse's harsh music is regarded as a gangbanger who should be under constant watch. But there's no law against indulging bad taste, in music, art or food, and a good thing, too. We couldn't afford to build enough prisons to hold the guilty.

January 9, 2014
Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman, second right, walks with North Korea's Sports Ministry Vice Minister Son Kwang Ho, third right, upon his arrival at the international airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Rodman took a team of former NBA players on a trip for an exhibition game on Kim Jong Un's birthday, Wednesday, Jan. 8. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

EDITORIAL: Double-driveling in Pyongyang

North Korea's Kim Jong-un has few fans, but one of his biggest just arrived in Pyongyang. Dennis Rodman joined several other former NBA players for an exhibition game against a North Korean team for the amusement of Mr. Kim on Wednesday. This was the North Korean dictator's 31st birthday. Mr. Rodman even sang an off-key rendition of "Happy Birthday" to the Not So Dear Leader before the tipoff at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium.

January 8, 2014
President Lyndon B. Johnson holds his dog "Her" by the ears as White House visitors look on, April 27, 1964, on the White House lawn in Washington. At left is President Johnson's other dog, "Him." This picture raised criticism from dog lovers. (AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry)

EDITORIAL: The war America lost

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty in America." American taxpayers have since spent more than $15 trillion on this conflict, employing everything short of the A-bomb, as the CATO Institute's Michael Tanner notes. Money is thrown with abandon at low-income assistance programs, from Section 8 housing to Head Start to Medicare and the Earned Income Tax Credit. There's little to show for the expenditure beyond a $17.3 trillion — that's with a 't' — national debt.

January 8, 2014
Tim Eyman holds his daughter Riley, 1, in July 2009 while updating a board tallying petition signatures for getting an initiative on the Washington state ballot. Mike Fagan holds the board. Mr. Eyman co-sponsored Initiative 1053 which passed with 66 percent of the vote on Nov. 2, 2010. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Overruling the courts

When the legislature enacts bad laws or a court decides a case the wrong way, some people get angry. They grumble and complain, venting on the Internet or in a telephone call or two. Others, like Tim Eyman in the state of Washington, do something about it.

January 8, 2014
Illustration Constitutional Toilet Paper by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Lunacy in the loo

When nature calls, California answers unnaturally. The state's new "bathroom law" for children took effect last week, to eliminate the remaining modesty between the sexes. This is a California trend worthy of resisting, and the bathroom backlash has begun.

January 7, 2014
FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2013, file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, is shown. The Obama administration, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, launched a bid to rein in the use of tax-exempt groups for political campaigning. The effort is an attempt to reduce the role of loosely regulated big-money political outfits like GOP political guru Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and the pro-Obama Priorities USA. The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said they want to prohibit such groups from using "candidate-related political activity" like running ads, registering voters or distributing campaign literature as activities that qualify them to be tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: Congress should not renew tax credits to special interests

It's an annual ritual. Congress lets a package of tax breaks expire at the end of the year in their mad dash to leave Washington for the holidays. Now back in town, they must decide whether to renew the credits and deductions retroactively. In many, perhaps most, of the 55 tax breaks this year, they shouldn't.

January 7, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks about benefits for the unemployed, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. The president applauded a Senate vote advancing legislation to renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed as an important step. The Senate voted 60-37 Tuesday to clear the bill's first hurdle. But Republicans who voted to move ahead still want concessions that will have to be worked out before final passage. The Republican-controlled House would also have to vote for it. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s unemployment insurance benefits have to end

President Obama returned Sunday from his 16-day Hawaiian vacation to a capital in the grip of a "polar vortex." On Saturday, before saying "aloha" to the Kailua vacation house he rented for $56,000, he wanted to show himself as a man of the people, many of whom became unemployed under his economy.

January 6, 2014