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Before he was D.C. Council chairman, Phil Mendelson urged that D.C. police Sgt. Mark Robinson be regarded as a whistleblower, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Times. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Guns across the river

The District of Columbia government, having resolved all corruption and incompetence in its own ranks, is reaching now beyond the city limits into cyberspace.

August 9, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama went to Martha's Vineyard, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Another week, another holiday

President Obama leaves for Martha's Vineyard on Saturday for still another vacation. The Government Accountability Institute calculates that Mr. Obama spends twice as much time at leisure than on policy briefings.

August 9, 2013
The Chevy Volt is a gas-electric hybrid. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Get a horse

The apt symbol of the Obama presidency is the Chevy Volt, stalled on the open road. Like Barack Obama, the Volt presented itself to the public with the lofty promise of a better future, but delivered a future not as good as the past and present.

August 8, 2013
Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena displays a temporary document Thursday that allows Edward Snowden to cross the border into Russia. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The president’s reset button

This is what President Obama's "reset" of relations with Russia looks like. He abruptly canceled plans Wednesday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month when he goes to Russia for the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg.

August 8, 2013
Alfred E. Neuman

EDITORIAL: ‘What, me worry?’

Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's know-nothing icon, had the ready attitude toward disasters about to befall him: "What, me worry?" This could be the motto of congressional Democrats, who bring the same lackadaisical attitude to issues of government debt and federal spending.

August 7, 2013
Army 1st Lt. Christian Gehrels relies on his interpreter to communicate with Afghans. After Lt. Gehrels and other U.S. troops are gone by the end of next year, Afghans assisting the coalition will be left with little protection. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Abandoning friends

As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan wind down, the Obama administration must take care not to leave friends in the lurch.

August 7, 2013
Illustration by Paul Tong

EDITORIAL: When God and Caesar collide

The San Juan Islands lie off the northwest coast of Washington state, remote and pristine in their natural beauty of mountains, sandy beaches and fir and pine forests.

August 7, 2013
Obamacare (The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Congress gets a pass

Everyone's dying to get off Obamacare. Public and private unions want nothing to do with it. Nancy Pelosi finagled waivers for dozens of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco.

August 6, 2013
With splotches of green paint still visible Monday on the Lincoln Memorial, D.C. Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a woman at the Washington National Cathedral after similar vandalism was found there.

EDITORIAL: Visa vandals

The Lincoln Memorial, the Washington National Cathedral and other monuments in the nation's capital have fallen victim to lax immigration policies.

August 6, 2013
Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin Republican, (right) played the role of host, welcoming his counterparts from across the country. Some of the governors thought to have potential presidential ambitions were a study in contrasts at the Milwaukee meeting. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Wisconsin model

The nation's governors met in Milwaukee over the weekend to share tips about what to do to make their states better. Some of the governors had more to tell than others, but few more than Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin.

August 5, 2013
** FILE ** In this July 25, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at the Jacksonville Port in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: Contempt for the law

President Obama doesn't like the law ordering illegal aliens deported, so Border Patrol agents were ordered not to obey the law. They would be punished if they did.

August 5, 2013
Illustration: Hollow recovery by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: The paper recovery

This sounds like good news. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the unemployment rate dropped from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent in July as the economy expanded with 162,000 jobs.

August 5, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A pipeline to prosperity

Too bad that "Keystone" isn't a solar field or a wind farm in the Mojave Desert. If it were, the White House could boast of the wealth and jobs such a project would create. But Keystone XL Pipeline is more than a fantasy.

August 2, 2013
Illustration: Big Brother's Eye (Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Recovering lost freedom

The government's ability to track 316 million Americans without a warrant rests on a flimsy premise upheld Tuesday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges, intentionally or not, move us into the shadow of the total surveillance society.

August 2, 2013
** File ** Emilio Cordova, right, chooses a soft drink during a baseball game between the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in New York.

EDITORIAL: We’ll drink to that

Another court has taken the fizz out of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's attempt to put everyone on the soda wagon. He just doesn't like sweet stuff.

August 1, 2013
Illustration: Underwater housing by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Bank robbery in California

The Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London, Conn., decision in 2005 made eminent domain a threat to everybody, and since then local governments have been seizing houses from plain folks and turning them over to developers in return for increased property-tax revenues.

August 1, 2013