THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Rearranging the World Bank

The World Bank concluded its annual meeting Saturday with the organization's president, Jim Yong Kim, vowing to turn the organization into a "solutions bank." We agree that change is needed, but we have a better solution. Dissolve the World Bank.

October 13, 2013

EDITORIAL: Jackpot justice afoot

Syria has been reduced to a small blip in the corner of the radar screen, if only for a moment, but the screen of the neighborhood is as busy as always. Bashar Assad still clings to power in the Syrian civil war, with the Russians standing by to "help," as usual. Iraq continues to be a tinderbox. Egypt, an old ally, is fighting the Muslim Brotherhood without U.S. political support or military aid. Now Jordan, a steadfast American ally, faces a threat to economic stability in the form of an unusual lawsuit our own Supreme Court has been asked to consider.

October 13, 2013

EDITORIAL: No spoilers in Virginia

The Libertarian Party candidate for governor in Virginia is upset because he won't be invited to participate in a debate at Virginia Tech later this month. Fans of smaller government can feel relieved, because all that Robert Sarvis can accomplish by his futile run is to take enough votes away from Ken Cuccinelli, the conservative, to lose to Terry McAuliffe, a big-government liberal.

October 13, 2013

CARDENAS: The return of Manuel Zelaya to a wary Honduras

When the world last heard from Honduras in 2009, the country had sparked a regional crisis after deposing its president, Manuel Zelaya, for his repeated illegal attempts to rewrite the Honduran Constitution as his amigo, the now-deceased autocrat Hugo Chavez, had done in Venezuela. Despite the fact that the Law Library of the U.S. Congress later found the process to be constitutional, the Obama administration joined Chavez and other radical regimes in branding Mr. Zelaya's removal a "military coup" and unleashed punitive sanctions on one of the region's poorest countries.

October 10, 2013

EDITORIAL: Embarrassing Obama

President Obama drew a red line, you might say, to protect Obamacare. Now the red ink, blood or whatever, has spread to his face. HealthCare.gov, the website designed to deliver on his promise to simplify health care, is a disaster, and the administration insists the disaster must continue. "The government is now shut down," Mr. Obama boasted early last week, "but the Affordable Care Act is still open for business." But it's not, and no one knows this better than the president himself.

October 10, 2013

EDITORIAL: The churches of anything goes

Flip Wilson, a popular television comedian from the '70s, created a worldly preacher called Rev. LeRoy, pastor of the "Church of What's Happening Now." Any resemblance to any actual church was not at all coincidental. Rev. Leroy once told the congregation that he was "going to Las Vegas because there's sin there and I'm going to put a stop to it. If I can't stop it, at least I'm going to slow it down."

October 10, 2013

EDITORIAL: Lap dogs on the growl

Lap dogs will snap at an ankle, but they rarely bite. Nevertheless, President Obama is running out of friends. His steamrolling and "no negotiations" negotiating style offended Republicans first, but now some of his most ardent supporters are entertaining second thoughts. The Committee to Protect Journalists, which works to protect reporters from harm in distant places such as Colombia and Egypt, released a report Thursday suggesting the Obama administration has adopted speech-chilling tactics more appropriate to a Third World nation.

October 10, 2013

VIDEO: Emily Miller on MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ and her book ‘Emily Gets Her Gun’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski interviewed Emily Miller about her new book "Emily Gets Her Gun." The debate topics included misleading terms for firearms, expanding background checks and the "assault weapons" ban.

October 10, 2013

EDITORIAL: MPs plot revenge against powerful tabloid

Freedom of the press, the late, great press critic A.J. Liebling once remarked, "is guaranteed only to those who own one." We take his point. Mr. Liebling, who died more than a half-century ago, said some other colorful things about the press that still resonate with newspaper readers today. "I take a grave view of the press," he said. "It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." But better a weak slat than no slat at all.

October 9, 2013

EDITORIAL: Obama as Napoleon

Victorious generals demand unconditional surrender from their foes only after they defeat them on the battlefield. President Obama, winner of no such victories, imagines he's Napoleon on his way back from Austerlitz, refusing to take anything from his rivals but laurels. "Why would I give them concessions now to avoid [a government default]?" the president asked on Tuesday. He won't negotiate until after the other side has given him everything he wants. No wonder Mr. Obama is losing the battle of public opinion.

October 9, 2013

EDITORIAL: The ignoble affront

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Given the recent American laureates — Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama — there's little likelihood that the American president who did more to promote and preserve peace will follow those usurpers. Still, it's not too late to do the noble thing, to posthumously recognize Ronald Reagan.

October 9, 2013

VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN HLN about gun ownership leading to ‘wild west shootouts’

CNN HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky interviewed Emily Miller for a second night about how restrictive gun laws in New York City contributed to a family being assaulted by a motorcycle gang in broad daylight. The second segment is about the security concerns after a nine year old boy was able to get past TSA and boarding agents and fly to Las Vegas.

October 9, 2013

EDITORIAL: Taxing the Billboard Top 40

Americans have been hooked on radio since 1910, when Enrico Caruso sang arias from "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci" from the Metropolitan Opera stage in the first live radio broadcast — borne, as reported The New York Times, "over the turbulent waters of the sea and over the mountainous and undulating valleys of the country." (Well, all over the sidewalks of New York, anyway.) Millions now listen to music, news and talk at home, at work or in their cars. It's bigger than ever, and it's free.

October 9, 2013

EDITORIAL: Bring out your dead

Democrats in Virginia are stopping just short of opening polling places in the graveyards to make sure every ineligible voter is counted. The state Democratic Party last week asked a federal judge in Alexandria for an injunction to block state and local election officials from deleting the names of ineligible voters. When the roll is called up yonder, in the updated hymn, the dead Democrats will still be here.

October 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: Obama and Chicken Little

President Obama wants everyone to know that unless he gets authority to borrow a few extra trillion dollars by Oct. 17, the sky will fall. The consequences for everyone will be "dramatically worse" than a government shutdown. If you think the National Park Service rangers are tough, so the message goes, wait until the Chinese bankers arrive. The president says "every economist" agrees that failure to extend the debt ceiling -- the credit limit -- would mean a default of the United States government, and that would trigger collapse, calamity, catastrophe and maybe even inconvenience. We urge the president to take an aspirin and lie down until he feels better.

October 8, 2013

VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN HLN about motorcycle gang attack in NYC and gun-control laws

CNN HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky interviewed Emily Miller about the motorcycle gang who chased a family in a SUV and assaulted the father during the day in New York City. Ms. Miller asserted that the strict gun-control laws in the city create a situation in which the criminals have no deterrent and the citizens are defenseless. The video of the October 7 interview on "Dr. Drew on Call" is below.

October 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: It’s ‘hijack’ if GOP filibusters, but ‘courage’ if it’s a Lib with ambitions

Everything's bigger in Texas, including talk. When Wendy Davis, an obscure state senator from Fort Worth, talked for 11 hours straight in the state Senate in June to promote abortion, Pelosi praised her stand ... as Davis all but drafted herself as Democratic candidate for governor.

October 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: Ignoring the Constitution

President Obama appears to be no fan of the Constitution. As a law lecturer at the University of Chicago, he showed his skepticism of the document drawn up by the Framers, saying it reflected "an enormous blind spot in the culture that carries on to this day." Mr. Obama pledged to correct that "enormous blind spot," and now he's exploiting the government shutdown to continue chipping away at the guarantee of the nation's freedoms.

October 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: Challenging the bully

When the United States government imposes its sovereign will with might and no mercy, the sovereign citizen can feel there's nothing he can do about it. Calling on the courts for redress requires years of effort, and lawyers and lawsuits are expensive. Such appeals usually fail. But the power and authority of an individual sovereign state can ensure a fair fight.

October 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: Running on the pill

Terry McAuliffe is nothing if not predictable. He's a career political operative whose forays into the business world have been marked by cronyism, corruption and bankruptcy. Without a record to speak of — and he wants no one to speak of it — Mr. McAuliffe has built his campaign on reckless attacks on his Republican opponent, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

October 8, 2013