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** FILE ** A tourist photographs an alien outside a T-shirt and souvenir shop in Roswell, N.M., in 2007. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Attention, Earthlings

A few friends of extraterrestrials got together the other day at the National Press Club, where there's usually a couple of guys at the bar eager for a good story, to hold a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, a "mock congressional hearing" on human encounters with extraterrestrials.

May 9, 2013
**FILE** Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The immigration poison pill

The immigration "reform" cooked up by the Gang of Eight is finally on the front burner in Congress. The Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up the comprehensive package Thursday, and already it appears the process is doomed to failure, and by design.

May 9, 2013
Food stamps (illustration)

EDITORIAL: A free lunch for the world

The Department of Agriculture is out to sign up the world for food stamps, and you don't even have to live in the United States. The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.

May 9, 2013
** FILE ** Vials of flu vaccine are displayed on Jan. 10, 2013, at Philly Flu Shots in Philadelphia. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Confiscating the baby

Alex and Anna Nikolayev of Sacramento, Calif., want only the best for their five-month-old son, Sammy. They're particularly sensitive to the infant's health because he has a heart murmur and will likely need surgery.

May 8, 2013
**FILE** Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks at a climate workshop sponsored by the Climate Center at Georgetown University in Washington on Feb. 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Gina McCarthy’s smog machine

Senate hearings, even confirmation hearings, don't always live up to their billing (except in the movies). Not every committee can deliver Watergate-era theatrics, either from the panel of senators or in a retort from the witness table, as in Joseph Welch's famous question to Joe McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency?"

May 8, 2013
** FILE ** A latte crafted at Peregrine Espresso in D.C. (The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Now, a war on caffeine

Waking up to the morning newspaper and a cup of hot coffee is one of life's great pleasures, but it may soon be only a fondly remembered blast from the past. The newspaper is not going anywhere, but the nannies and the nancy men of the federal government want to take away our caffeine.

May 8, 2013
Tim Eyman holds his daughter Riley, 1, in July 2009 while updating a board tallying petition signatures for getting an initiative on the Washington state ballot. Mike Fagan holds the board. Mr. Eyman co-sponsored Initiative 1053 which passed with 66 percent of the vote on Nov. 2, 2010. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A scarlet tax letter

Not everything that comes out of the deep-blue left coast is bad. A state that gave Barack Obama a 15-point margin should expect taxes to go up because Big Government liberalism is all about "soaking the rich" and redistributing the result.

May 7, 2013
Illustration Benghazi by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The Benghazi spin

Americans may finally learn the facts about the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. These facts arrive eight months late because the Obama administration devoted its full attention to re-weaving the narrative of the killing of an American ambassador and three other diplomats on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 catastrophe at the World Trade Center.

May 7, 2013
FILE- This Feb. 11, 2009 file photo shows an owner beginning to write a text message on his cell phone in Los Angeles. The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project said in October that 75 percent of teens have a cell phone and that a typical teen sends about 50 texts a day. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, FILE)

EDITORIAL: The Obamaphone explosion

Nobody likes paying a telephone bill, landline, cell or otherwise. The long-term contracts, early termination fees and the bewildering array of fees and limits make comparison shopping a drudge. This isn't so, however, for nearly 1 every 10 Maryland residents who get their telephone free from the Lifeline subsidy program.

May 7, 2013
Gov. Jay Inslee, seated, signs a measure to make state statutes gender-neutral, joined by bill sponsor Sen. Jeannie Kohl-Welles, left, on Monday, April 22, 2013, in Olympia, Wash. The measure is the final installment of a multiyear project to replace thousands of references to male-centric words in state law with gender-neutral terms. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

EDITORIAL: Another assault on the language

Politicians often have too much time on their hands. In the state of Washington, state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, a Democrat, spent many hours poring through the law books searching for words and phrases that offend currently fashionable feminist sensibilities.

May 6, 2013
Illustration: Scouts honor by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: This Eagle Scout is no felon

It's May, and for most seniors in high school, thoughts turn to final exams, getting a date for the prom and graduation. For David Cole Withrow, an 18-year-old senior at Princeton High School in Princeton, N.C., his final days will be spent dealing with a suspension, an arrest record and a felony charge in criminal court.

May 6, 2013
Illustration Obama's Jobs by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: No relief in the numbers

Friday's official jobs numbers were better than expected. The Labor Department says 165,000 private-sector positions were created in April, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.5 percent, a decline of only a tenth of a percentage point from March.

May 6, 2013
Illustration Seashore by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A Stasi for Palm Beach

In the bad old days when Germany was riven in two parts, Germans in the East lived in terror of the state security ministry known as the Stasi, which enlisted neighbors and colleagues as secret informants. Stasi created a spirit of distrust to be exploited by the party.

May 3, 2013
**FILE** Teva Women's Health packaging for Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the "morning-after pill" (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Shelving Plan B

The Justice Department decided Wednesday to appeal a federal judge's order authorizing over-the-counter sales of the Plan B morning-after abortion pill without any age restrictions. It's a right decision, if for the wrong reason.

May 3, 2013
Illustration: The Internet

EDITORIAL: Silencing Internet radio

Washington, D.C., is a coin-operated world where lobbyists insert their nickels and politicians sing their song. Nobody is more in tune with the game than the music industry.

May 3, 2013
Illustration Obama's anti-Christianity by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Pentagon prejudice

The administration continues to tie itself in knots to avoid offending Muslims, but offers no such courtesy to Christians. The latest example of official intolerance is the blocking of access on military bases to the Southern Baptists' website because it contains "hostile content."

May 2, 2013
David Grosso (Grossatlarge.com)

EDITORIAL: Hail to the Redtails?

We should put aside concerns about crime, decrepit schools, perpetual parking and traffic chaos and an unending series of corruption scandals in the District of Columbia government. The D.C. Council is poised to decide what a private business should call itself.

May 2, 2013
President Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 30, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The perils of duckhood

Presidents never call a news conference unless they have something to say, or, in certain circumstances have to say something, like it or not. President Obama called an unexpected news conference Tuesday, with lots of things he had rather not talk about.

May 2, 2013
The shelves at Havana Connections cigar shop in Richmond show the many varieties of premium cigars, which aficionados liken to fine wine or craft beer. They say the range of cigar sizes and shapes makes across-the-board standards almost impossible. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Snuff that cigar

The U.S. economy may not be growing, but the government sure is. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had explicit legal authority to regulate cigarettes and chewing tobacco only since 2009, and now the agency wants to go beyond the congressional mandate to shape up the American cigar industry.

May 1, 2013