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A protester plays the piano in the Kiev city council building which they occupied in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. A protest by about 300,000 Ukrainians angered by their government's decision to freeze integration with the West turned violent Sunday, when a group of demonstrators besieged the president's office and police drove them back with truncheons, tear gas and flash grenades. Dozens of people were injured. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

EDITORIAL: The piano police

Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission must have a lot of spare time. The agency recently swooped to rescue the American people from the threat posed by a collaborative organization of 22,000 professionals who sit down with youngsters and teach them how to play a piano.

December 5, 2013
FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the "SelectUSA Investment Summit" conference in Washington. For years, President Barack Obama’s personal favorability ratings served as a political firewall that sustained him through an economic recession, grueling fights with congressional Republicans, and the grind of a re-election campaign. But after a rough start to Obama’s second term, Americans increasingly view the president unfavorably. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s veiled threat

With his trademark grin and natural charm, President Obama knows how to connect with an audience. So it was when he gave the commencement address to Arizona State University's class of 2009, thrilling a crowd of 60,000 assembled in Sun Devil Stadium. Looking back on his remarks today, his words are much less amusing.

December 5, 2013
Illustration: Food stamp stimulus by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Free-lunch economics

After five years of stimulus schemes ranging from federal bailouts and a trillion-dollar stimulus package to the Cash for Clunkers program, Americans have yet to enjoy the "Recovery Summer" that they were once promised. Now, President Obama is promoting food stamps as the next great form of economic stimulus.

December 4, 2013
President Obama has placed examples of American inventions on his office shelves, including Samuel F.B. Morse's 1849 patent model of his Electric Telegraph. (Associated Press/Smithsonian Institution)

EDITORIAL: The trouble with trolls

With time running out on this year's congressional session, leaders are anxious to find something, anything, that they can tout as an accomplishment back home. With little good news on the budget and taxes, the House will try its hand at getting something done on legal reform.

December 4, 2013
A service station attendant pumps gas in Portland, Ore., in February 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

EDITORIAL: Don’t hike the gas tax

The first thought that pops into the mind of Rep. Earl Blumenauer when he sees prices at the gasoline pump is: They ought to be higher. The Oregon Democrat introduced legislation Tuesday to nearly double the federal gas tax from 18.4 cents per gallon to 33.4 cents over the next three years. By indexing the amount to inflation, the tax would hike itself automatically each year.

December 4, 2013
Demand for donor blood is dwindling because of fewer elective surgeries, medical advances that curb bleeding and other "patient blood-management" strategies. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The HHS blood feud

Every once in a while a case arises and gives Americans a glimpse at what a government-run health care system is really going to be like. Think of an uncaring bureaucracy, making decisions with a "government knows best" attitude that threatens the lives and health of thousands. Doreen Gummoe doesn't have to imagine it; she lives the fight every day.

December 3, 2013
The United States Supreme Court is seen Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Washington, two days before the court will begin hearing arguments Monday on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare rematch

Obamacare is headed for a do-over in the Supreme Court, and perhaps this time the court will be more amenable to doing its duty by putting this badly implemented scheme out of the nation's misery. The high court on Monday declined to hear Liberty University's expansive challenge to the employer mandate, but it did agree last week to consider a more focused challenge to the requirement that private firms pay for contraceptive devices and abortions, regardless of any moral objections they might have.

December 3, 2013
**FILE** President Obama (right) and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney exchange views during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Oct. 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Motor City meltdown

Another day and another of President Obama's campaign boasts bites the dust. While out on the hustings last year, Mr. Obama pummeled Mitt Romney for writing a 2008 op-ed column in The New York Times titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

December 3, 2013
Wal-Mart protester Karl Hilgert, dressed as Santa Claus, is led away after being arrested for failure to disperse after sitting down with nine other protesters in the middle of an intersection on Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, in Ontario, Calif. A labor group and supporters used the Black Friday shopping period for a demonstration over wages and working conditions at Wal-Mart. The San Bernardino Sun reports that more than 100 demonstrators gathered near the Wal-Mart in Ontario at 6 a.m. (AP Photo/The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Will Lester) MANDATORY CREDIT

EDITORIAL: Black Friday’s union blues

The Grinch wants to dampen the holiday spirit, and he's wearing the union label. On the day after Thanksgiving, when many decide to pick up presents for loved ones at a discount, this spoilsport arranged for activists to frighten shoppers away from non-union stores with picket lines. Americans weren't deterred.

December 2, 2013
ASSOCIATED PRESS London Mayor Boris Johnson, a maverick member of the center-right Conservative Party, sees Sen. Barack Obama as the "incarnation of change and hope" that the United States needs in the White House.

EDITORIAL: Equality and envy

London's outspoken mayor stepped into controversy last week by daring to acknowledge that some people are more gifted than others. Labor Party leaders and even a few weak-kneed Conservatives rushed to distance themselves from Boris Johnson over this not-particularly revealing admission.

December 2, 2013
** FILE ** An AK-47 assault rifle with a high capacity ammunition cartridge was confiscated during one of two undercover sting operations targeting gun traffickers in the Bronx borough of New York on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s lesson for Virginia

Sometimes the worst possible gift for a liberal is to give him everything he wants. President Obama no doubt feels this after getting his way on Obamacare, which is easily the biggest disaster of his presidency. Colorado Democrats are likewise stinging after they rammed a gun-control scheme through the legislature in March that has the public screaming for their heads. These Democratic lawmakers ought to warn their newly elected colleagues in Virginia against repeating the same mistake.

December 2, 2013
** FILE ** Daniel Mangione, a chef at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown, prepares cupcakes. (NICHOLAS GINGOLD/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

EDITORIAL: Cookie criminals

The American dream of owning a small business often crumbles because of half-baked government rules and regulations. In Minnesota, the state's leaders have decreed that goods cooked at home can be sold at county fairs and farmer's markets, but they can't be offered in grocery stores or over the Internet.

December 1, 2013
This image released by ABC shows performer Lady Gaga, center, with muppet characters, including Kermit the Frog, right, and Gonzo, foreground center, in a promotional photo from the upcoming show "Lady Gaga & The Muppets' Holiday Spectacular," airing Thursday, Nov. 28 at 9:30 EST on ABC. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Hollywood values

President Obama dropped in on the DreamWorks movie studio last week while on a West Coast scavenger hunt for Democratic campaign cash. Lavishing praise on an industry that has lavished millions of dollars on him, the president told the assembled cast, crew and executives that "entertainment is part of our American diplomacy" and that Hollywood exports "our values" globally. To paraphrase a previous Democratic president, that all depends on what the definition of "our values" is.

December 1, 2013
Shoppers loaded down with bags from downtown shops walk along Montgomery Street during their Black Friday shopping Friday Nov. 29, 2013 in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Savannah Morning News, Richard Burkhart)

EDITORIAL: A holiday wish for the Fed

Retail shops have been doing whatever it takes, including working on Thanksgiving, to entice a few more customers into stores and online outlets. Even after the final "cyber Monday" sales are tallied, the Christmas-buying season may not have gotten off to a big enough start to revive an economy that's been dragging for the past five years.

December 1, 2013
Illustration: Children and porn by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The NSA’s voyeurs

Millions of Americans will take advantage of Black Friday sales to snap up bargains on the latest smart television sets, tablets and mobile phones. As they plug in these electronic gadgets, many consumers may be wondering whether they'll be reporting back on their viewing habits to the government.

November 28, 2013
FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows customer at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court has agreed to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said Tuesday they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly 40 lawsuits from for-profit companies asking to be spared from having to cover some or all forms of contraception. The court will consider two cases. One involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees. Hobby Lobby won in the lower courts. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

EDITORIAL: Will the Supreme Court rescue Hobby Lobby?

Novelist Robert Heinlein once observed that the worst form of tyranny was forcing someone to pay for what he doesn't want "merely because you think it would be good for him." This is why so many are up in arms over the punishments Obamacare doles out to anyone who fails to purchase what President Obama says is good for them. Relief could be on the horizon, as the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review the health care law's most offensive dictates, the contraceptive and abortion mandates.

November 28, 2013
Job seekers line up to talk with recruiters during a job fair in Atlanta on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo/John Amis)

EDITORIAL: Falsifying government reports to get re-elected?

When government pays for something, it gets more of it. For the past five years, Congress has been pushing "emergency" subsidies for long-term unemployment, and, not surprisingly, we've been getting more joblessness — a fact some have been working overtime to conceal.

November 28, 2013
Xi Jinping, China’s newly appointed leader, is expected to focus early in his tenure on curbing the communist nation’s rampant corruption and re-energizing a slowing economy. Mr. Xi is not expected to project a softer image when it comes to human rights. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: China’s inevitable slowdown

We've been told so many times that China is about to overtake the U.S. economy that a lot of people are beginning to believe it. Economists of the left-wing persuasion are especially infatuated with this notion, because it implies the superiority of state-directed "semi-capitalism" over the free market.

November 27, 2013