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Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was attacked and killed on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, near his barracks in the Woolwich section of London. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defence)

EDITORIAL: The Facebook of terror

A pair of Islamic extremists butchered British soldier Lee Rigby on the streets of south London last week, and the response has been one of political correctness.

May 29, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Drones at home

President Obama pledges to restrict the use of killer drones to missions against America's enemies overseas. Now lawmakers on Capitol Hill need to apply restrictions on drones capable of spying on Americans here at home.

May 29, 2013
Illustration Class Action by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Jackpot justice

The final weeks of a Supreme Court's term tend to be the most provocative. Hotly debated issues can take the longest to decide. When the court meets in conference on Thursday, it should exploit another opportunity to crack down on greedy class-action trial lawyers.

May 28, 2013
Illustration College Debt by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Pricking the college loan bubble

College loans remain a cruel charade. In the name of making higher education "more affordable," students are conned into borrowing far more than they can repay in return for a university degree.

May 28, 2013
President Obama pauses while talking about national security on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. He was interrupted multiple times by hecklers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Nullifying Obama

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is nullification — the idea that states can limit the enforcement of federal laws within their borders.

May 28, 2013
Capt. Tom Hudner Jr., USN (Ret.), a Medal of Honor recipient (left), and Capt. Paul E. Mawn, USN (Ret.), chairman of the Advocates for Harvard ROTC (right), are in the Harvard Yard at the June 3 ROTC commissioning ceremony. (Photograph provided by the Advocates for Harvard ROTC/Special to The Washington Times).

EDITORIAL: Free men in uniform

Hundreds of thousands of young men and women graduate from colleges and universities across the land this spring, and a small contingent of them put aside "the college joys" to take up the uniform of their country, many of them as part of the Reserve Officers Training Corps - ROTC, or "Rot-C," as it's called on many campuses.

May 27, 2013
A wreath is laid during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Korean War armistice at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, July 27, 2009. (Peter Lockley / The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Remembering ‘our soldier dead’

This returning Decoration Day brings our entire nation in reverence and respect to the graves of our departed soldiers. Each year, their number has increased, as that long blue line which stood so valiantly for the cause of the Union has grown thinner and thinner, until today it has almost vanished from earthly view.

May 27, 2013
Illustration Windmills Killing Eagles by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Windmills of death

There's a killer on the loose. Known for murdering in cold blood with a sharp blade, the government has nevertheless turned a blind eye to the killer's trail of death and destruction.

May 24, 2013
Leaning to hear a reporter's question, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, talks Feb. 26, 2013, about the looming automatic spending cuts following a Democratic strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Reid’s court-packing scheme

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn't like the direction the federal judiciary is heading, so he has come up with a variant of court-packing to achieve his results.

May 24, 2013
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

EDITORIAL: The nanny blows his top

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is still smarting from the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of "supersized" sodas. He blew his top last week at a second judicial slight.

May 24, 2013
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 21 ** Visitors listen Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, to Michael Gurling, right, of the Forks, Wash., Chamber of Commerce, talk about the bonfire location on a beach in LaPush, Wash., that is portrayed as the place where Bella Swan, the main character in author Stephenie Meyer's vampire-themed "Twilight" books, learns that her high-school friend Edward Cullen is really a vampire. The visitors were taking part in a "Twilight Tour" led by Gurling that takes fans of the books, which are set in the nearby town of Forks, Wash., around to locations central to the plot and characters. The attention is welcome in Forks, which has long suffered by the decline in the timber industry. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

EDITORIAL: California to ban fire

Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we've gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers.

May 23, 2013
Illustration: Homegrown jihad by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Homegrown jihad

George W. Bush employed an anti-terrorism strategy of taking the fight to the enemy abroad "so we do not have to face them here at home." Barack Obama has replaced that with welcoming the enemy to our shores and bestowing on him American citizenship.

May 23, 2013
Penny S. Pritzker (Screen shot of http://www.penny-pritzker.com/penny-pritzker-biography.html)

EDITORIAL: Another crony for the Cabinet

President Obama's choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place.

May 23, 2013
President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Obama enemies list

The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government's gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious.

May 22, 2013
**FILE** Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks Sept. 12, 2012, during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Grilled Apple

Even after taking new hits to its stock price, Apple Inc., remains the most valuable corporation in the world. That makes some senators green with envy. They assume such success could only have come at a cost to the government.

May 22, 2013
Illustration: Second thoughts by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Thought crimes

In George Orwell's allegorical novel "Animal Farm," all animals were equal, but some animals were more equal than others. "Hate-crime" laws treat some victims more equally than others, converting thoughts into crimes. Orwell would understand, but not applaud.

May 22, 2013
**FILE** Al Gore (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A climate milestone

For Al Gore, it's "a sad milestone." Scientists have announced that the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has reached a "record" level of 400 parts per million.

May 21, 2013
Illustration: Protest vote by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A voice for the goose

The City Council in Takoma Park, Md., prides itself as living on the cutting edge of liberalism. The small town bristles at life in the left-leaning shadow of the District of Columbia, and often tries to go one small step further left.

May 21, 2013
Lyndon B. Johnson

EDITORIAL: Repeal the Johnson Amendment

The Vietnam War and the "war on poverty" are probably the best-remembered elements of President Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy, but that's only part of it.

May 20, 2013