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EDITORIAL: Showdown in Syria

War fever is exciting, thrilling even, and it's contagious. Where it stops, none can tell. Prudent presidents go slowly, keeping all options open, measuring their response twice to cut it once.

August 28, 2013

EDITORIAL: Who needs Congress?

On her way out the door Tuesday as Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano lamented the failure of Congress to enact the Dream Act. It's not clear why it matters to her, considering the Obama administration has been acting as if a path to citizenship for illegal-alien youths had already passed through the legislative process.

August 28, 2013
The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward J. Snowden arrived Thursday, Oct. 11 in Moscow hoping to meet his son. “I am his father. I love my son,” Lon Snowden told reporters in remarks broadcast by Russian TV. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A spy’s regret

As the actress Jennifer Aniston once said, "There are no regrets in life, just lessons." Given recent developments, some members of Congress must be having second thoughts about their support for the National Security Agency's domestic spying operation. They now have their opportunity to show that they've learned their lesson.

August 27, 2013

EDITORIAL: Yet another bailout

In Greek tragedy, the main character overestimates his abilities and brings ruin upon himself and his family. European politicians share this fatal pride, thinking they can continue borrowing from future generations without consequence. Their latest extravagance is a third bailout for Greece.

August 27, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Constitution-free campuses

Millions of young Americans are welcoming their first taste of freedom away from home as college classes begin around the country. The experience is soured on a growing number of campuses where administrators have set up a Constitution-free zone that denies basic freedoms.

August 27, 2013
**FILE** United States Attorney General Eric Holder speaks to the American Bar Association Annual meeting on Aug. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Texas two-step

In a June 2009 speech intended to improve relations with the Arab and Muslim world, President Obama said he would "extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." The states get no such respect. Mr. Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, prefer the clenched fist.

August 26, 2013
Illustration Church and Gavel by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A bad picture in New Mexico

Cherished American values are under attack in New Mexico, where the state Supreme Court there ruled Thursday that a group of activists should be free to bully business owners into violating their religious beliefs.

August 26, 2013
Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Spoiling the broth

Union organizers are hungry to add cooks, waiters and busboys to a shrinking roster of union members. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 came up with what it thought was a nifty idea to set up the Restaurant Opportunities Center in New York City to demonstrate that union-scale wages could be paid to restaurant workers and succeed.

August 26, 2013
**FILE** Secretary of State John Kerry participates in the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the State Department in Washington on May 3, 2013, honoring the dedication of colleagues in the Foreign Service. Biden and Kerry paid tribute on Friday to Benghazi victims Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Ty Woods as well as Anne Smedinghoff, the young foreign service officer killed in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Unaccountable State

Sen. Susan M. Collins uses the terms "shocking" and "unacceptable" to describe the reinstatement of the four State Department officials who had been placed on administrative leave after last September's deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi.

August 23, 2013
Illustration by William Brown

EDITORIAL: Camouflage cops

A SWAT team armed with machine guns and clad in the latest paramilitary gear descended earlier this month on a small organic farm in Arlington, Texas, looking for marijuana.

August 23, 2013
** FILE ** Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks in front of a poster for his documentary film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," during the Japanese premier in Tokyo, In this Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 file photo. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: An inconvenient chill

Al Gore and the climate doomsayers are at it again. The former vice president took to Twitter this week to declare the planet "under threat," and he already has a solution.

August 23, 2013
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley delivers his speech before the state's General Assembly during his State of the State address in Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

EDITORIAL: A scramble for statehood

Maryland is a state so midnight blue that five counties in the westernmost part of the state want to peel away to become the 51st state. Well, why not?

August 22, 2013
**FILE** Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, speaks during the family leadership summit in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Canadian Cruz

Agunfighter always shoots at the man he fears most. So the guns of the left have been aimed at Ted Cruz, the charismatic senator from Texas who's looking at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

August 22, 2013
**FILE** President Obama makes a statement to the media from his rental vacation home in Chilmark Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard on Aug. 15, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s end run

Having the legislative branch enact laws, to be signed by the executive (as set out in the Constitution), has become a quaint concept under President Obama.

August 22, 2013
A mother holds her newborn baby at Christus Spohn Hospital South in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Michael Zamora)

EDITORIAL: When three’s a crowd

Come November, a German baby can be identified on birth certificates as male, female or "blank," a bureaucratic equivalent of "who knows?"

August 21, 2013
** FILE ** Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

EDITORIAL: Payback in London

Glenn Greenwald of the London Guardian has done more than anyone else in recent times to expose the dark and illicit underside of the surveillance state.

August 21, 2013
Illustration Mideast Christians by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Bearing the cross in Egypt

Political strife pushes passions past reason, and collateral damage to innocents is the rule. In Egypt, where civil war is brewing, the Muslim Brotherhood is conducting a pogrom against Coptic Christians.

August 21, 2013
** FILE ** National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. Clapper is apologizing for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: A big stick for a little guy

The Obama administration is running profitable businesses aground and their employees onto the unemployment line, but the owner of Lavabit, a small email-service provider in Texas, is threatened with criminal prosecution for closing its doors.

August 20, 2013
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, April 12, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal 2014 and her department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s bucket of worms

Obamacare is the gift that just keeps on giving - to its growing chorus of critics. President Obama blames the Republicans for trying to "gum up the works," but the "gum in the works" is the Juicy Fruit peeled on the morning after from his own bedpost.

August 20, 2013