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** FILE ** Customers walk into a Verizon Wireless store in Dallas on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

EDITORIAL: Bigger Brother

The government's snooping on Verizon customers ought to be a wake-up call for every American. The "security" bureaucrats have spent more than two decades laying the groundwork for the "right" of the government to keep tabs on everyone's movements and communications.

June 7, 2013
President Obama and White House National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice (Associated Press/File)

EDITORIAL: Undiplomatic choices

President Obama wasn't kidding when he told the Russian president that he expected to have "more flexibility" in his second term.

June 6, 2013
In this March 30, 2010, photo made through a one-way glass and reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee carries a workbook while escorted by guards who wear rubber gloves and face masks after attending a life skills class in the Camp 6 high-security detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

EDITORIAL: Playtime at Gitmo

Having "three hots and a cot," as the military calls meals and a bunk, and a warm Caribbean breeze apparently isn't enough for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

June 6, 2013
Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat, said he agrees in principle with Republican objections to the FCC's Internet rules but that it's a matter for courts to decide. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Dingell dynasty

Rep. John D. Dingell of Michigan becomes the longest-serving member of Congress on Friday, taking the title from the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.

June 6, 2013
ASSOCIATED PRESS Taxis wait for fares across the street from a large hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The city's Hail-A-Taxi effort is off to a slow start, raising questions whether Angelenos are too attached to their cars.

EDITORIAL: The end of a joy ride

The meter has run out for the insiders and their taxi monopoly in Milwaukee. A county judge has ordered city officials to issue permits for any qualified cab drivers who want to start a new business. The ruling is a small one, but it's a significant blow against the crony capitalism that threatens the economic freedom of the rest of us.

June 5, 2013
Illustration: Government money

EDITORIAL: Playtime for bureaucrats

Sequestration was supposed to have cut government to the bone. The White House canceled tours for schoolchildren and ordered the U.S. Navy to ground the Blue Angels in a public display of sackcloth and ashes.

June 5, 2013
Illustration Homosexual Agenda by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The old abnormal

The ABC Family cable channel's slogan is "A different kind of family." The programs it offers are different, sure enough, different from a family almost any other American family would recognize, and certainly different from the channel's programming when it was founded in an earlier century by the Rev. Pat Robertson.

June 5, 2013
Illustration: Rubber stamp by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Rubber-stamp government

The trifecta of scandals bedeviling the Obama White House shares a common theme: high-level government officials put their signatures on a document and later disavow accountability for its contents. Call it government by rubber stamp.

June 4, 2013
This May 30, 2013, file photo shows boxes of Pop-Tarts. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Pop guns, Pop Tarts and deadly pencils

The Calvert County, Md., kindergartner who was suspended last week for brandishing an unloaded cap gun on a school bus returned to class Monday. The crime wave in Calvert County is over.

June 4, 2013
Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers. (AP Photo/University of Connecticut, Chris Simon)

EDITORIAL: The cicadas are coming

They're almost here. With reports of sightings in Northern Virginia, the nation's capital is bracing for the inevitable return of the moulting, mating, singing cicadas.

June 4, 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: Gov. O’Malley’s ‘miracle’

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is a miracle worker. At least, that's what he told the crowd gathered Thursday in Washington at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

June 3, 2013
In this file photo, President Barack Obama waved May 17 as he arrived to deliver the commencement speech during the 2009 graduation ceremony at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. This Friday, he will address graduates of the Naval Academy. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: The leaning ivory tower

The left talks a lot about diversity and academic freedom, but it's rarely practiced. With rare exceptions, the ideological spectrum of the commencement speakers sending graduates out into the real world ranges from far left to even further left.

June 3, 2013
Illustration: Corporate taxes by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Our uncompetitive economy

When the time comes to pay the tax man, corporate executives realize the United States is the single worst country in the civilized world to do business. That's a rather stunning development for a country that was founded on the principles of free enterprise.

June 3, 2013

EDITORIAL: Bachmann’s exit

Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday she would not seek a fifth term. The Minnesota Republican's rise to prominence crested with her victory in the Iowa GOP's presidential Ames Straw Poll in August 2011, and it went downhill from there.

May 31, 2013
Illustration: Education by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Taking away the Fifth

Sometimes the best lessons are the ones that aren't planned. High school students in Batavia, Ill., recently received real-world training in the Bill of Rights unlike anything found in a textbook.

May 30, 2013
Illustration Education Jack-in-the-box by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Rotten to the core

President Obama wants to be involved in drafting the curriculum in our local schools. It's part of an initiative called "Common Core," the brainchild of state educational bureaucrats crying out for more centralization.

May 30, 2013
Bob Dole

EDITORIAL: Bob Dole’s bad advice

Former Sen. Bob Dole's diagnosis of what supposedly ails the GOP today is as woefully outdated as you might expect from someone who has been out of office for 17 years.

May 30, 2013
Coffman

EDITORIAL: The march to citizenship

For one side of the immigration debate, the goal is to hand out as many citizenship cards as possible. This "path to citizenship" is more a path toward dependency, in which illegal aliens take advantage of various welfare benefits and presumably show their gratitude by voting for the Democratic politicians who keep the goodies flowing.

May 29, 2013