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Articles by THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The deficit dip

The deficit is shrinking, but it's too soon to celebrate a return to sanity. America is still sinking more into debt by the minute and is still on a path to ruin.

May 20, 2013
Illustration: Hugo Chavez

EDITORIAL: The bottom line

Socialism has finally hit the fan in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, though he checked out just in time to miss it. He left millions of Venezuelans struggling to clean up the mess.

May 20, 2013
** FILE ** This Oct. 18, 2012, file photo, shows the iPhone5. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Socking the smartphone set

President Obama borrows a lot of his ideas from his friends in Europe. The continent's Big Government welfare state is an inspiration for someone who thinks the cure for too much spending is more spending.

May 17, 2013
President Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday May 15, 2013. Mr. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Rotten fish at the IRS

If you're a president under fire, it's convenient to fire someone who's about to leave anyway. The president on Wednesday threw acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller under the hot dog wagon, or whatever convenient cliche was waiting at the curb.

May 17, 2013
Twin “red-top” handicapped-parking meters await feeding on Fourth Street NW in the District of Columbia. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Parking meter scam

New Hampshire residents take the "Live Free or Die" slogan on their license plates seriously. Municipal governments use every shady trick to squeeze revenue from the citizenry, but Hampshiremen are fighting back.

May 17, 2013
**FILE** Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli outlines his Economic Growth and Virginia Jobs Plan at a Sweet Frog shop in Carytown on May 7, 2013. (Associated Press/Richmond Times-Dispatch)

EDITORIAL: Tea party takeover

When Virginia Republicans convene in Richmond on Friday to anoint their candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, there will be one conspicuous absence.

May 16, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Repealing free speech

The Justice Department put its contempt for the First Amendment on full display with its snooping on journalists at The Associated Press. It's a display of contempt for freedom of the press equaled only by the administration's disdain for freedom of speech, another of the essential First Amendment protections.

May 16, 2013
Illustration College Debt by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Making college affordable

Every parent with a college-age child worries about the spiraling cost of education. The price of a diploma can reach $150,000, even at a state school. A little cost-cutting is in order, and there's no better place to start than at the president's office.

May 16, 2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney takes questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on May, 14, 2013. Carney touched on various topics including the Justice Department's secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press and IRS. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Sgt. Schultz at the White House

One-time journalist and presidential press secretary Jay Carney is channelling his inner Sgt. Schultz, a favorite of "Hogan's Heroes." He "knows nothing, absolutely nothing" about the Department of Justice snooping on the communication habits of 20 reporters and editors at the Associated Press.

May 15, 2013
A movie is being planned about abortionist Kermit Gosnell, shown here being escorted to police custody after his May 2013 murder convictions for killing newborn babies. The movie producers are seeking additional funds through Indiegogo. (Associated Press/Philadelphia Daily News)

EDITORIAL: Justice in Philadelphia

The seedy practices of abortionists came sharply into focus Monday when a Philadelphia jury convicted Kermit Gosnell on three counts of first-degree murder. It's a significant setback for the Democrats, who have made terminating the lives of the unborn their defining issue.

May 15, 2013
"My challenge to all of you today, and actually my plea to all of you … is help us speed up the rate of change," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Panic over Obamacare

Over $2 trillion will be poured into Obamacare over the next decade but even that won't be enough, so the government is going to private health care companies and even lobbyists with a begging bowl.

May 15, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama listens to a question about Benghazi during a joint news conference with visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron on May 13, 2013, in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A legacy of scandal

When President Obama hands the keys to the Oval Office to his successor in 2017, he'll leave behind more than $9.3 trillion in red ink. With difficulty, red ink can be washed out. A legacy of scandal is permanent.

May 14, 2013
** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

EDITORIAL: Gunning for Democrats

Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes, because you might get it. Until recently, gun-fearing Senate Democrats were positively giddy about getting access to the deep pockets of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund.

May 14, 2013
Illustration: Big Brother's Eye (Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Something from George Orwell

Sometimes the best defense against the Orwellian schemes of the government is the government's own incompetence. Federal bureaucrats want nothing more than a national database containing "biometric" information on the entire adult population.

May 14, 2013
Illustration: Obamacare by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Navigating Obamacare

President Obama's takeover of health care is so complicated that the government is about to hire a fleet of bureaucrats to explain what it's all about.

May 13, 2013
**FILE** Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks about gun legislation on April 9, 2013, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington. The Obama administration continued its efforts to pressure Republicans, with Mr. Biden and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaking at the White House, joined by law enforcement officials. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Assault on the First Amendment

Taking legal advice from Joe Biden is dangerous, like taking his tips on home defense. The vice president who urges the ladies to deal with intruders by firing a shotgun at the dark now says there's no "legal problem" with imposing a violence tax on movies and video games.

May 13, 2013
Illustration by Nancy Ohanian

EDITORIAL: Death of the euro

Our European cousins are just now figuring out that ditching their marks, francs, liras and drachmas to join the eurozone may not have been such a hot idea after all.

May 13, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The NLRB’s unfair labor practice

The impish lexicographer Ambrose Bierce defined a lawyer as someone "skilled in the circumvention of the law." By that reckoning, the lawyers at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are among the most experienced lawyers in town.

May 10, 2013
J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2011, is pictured in Benghazi on Wednesday, April 11, 2011. Leaders of a House committee have said U.S. diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security for the consulate in Benghazi and were turned down by officials in Washington. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rep. Darrell Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz said their information came from "individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya." (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

EDITORIAL: Benghazi answers

The White House surely rues the day that someone came up with the bright idea of blaming an obscure YouTube video for the "demonstrations" that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

May 10, 2013
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EDITORIAL: Assata Shakur, terrorist

Not a month has passed since the Patriots' Day bombings in Boston, and the hand-wringers are already mumbling that the FBI made the wrong call when it designated 65-year-old fugitive Assata Shakur, formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, as a terrorist.

May 10, 2013