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Illustration Abortion Numbers by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A chamber of horrors

By his own lawyer’s count, Kermit Gosnell, a 72-year-old doctor in West Philadelphia, Pa., performed more than 16,000 abortions over the course of 31 years.

April 11, 2013
Illustration by Mark Weber

EDITORIAL: A lack of style

In politics, language controls the debate. Overturning centuries-old definitions of traditional marriage becomes “marriage equality” and banning guns becomes “gun safety.” Distorting the language is intended to persuade the public to accept radical change as something ordinary and natural.

April 11, 2013
Virginia’s roads and infrastructure has been an ongoing issue, but Gov. Bob McDonnell is taking heat for a bill that will hike the sales tax from 5 to 5.3 percent and allow an additional sales tax in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The master robbers

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell could give lessons in economics to Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber who, when a psychologist asked him why he robbed banks, famously replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”

April 11, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama gestures during a visit to the University of Hartford, in Hartford, Conn., Monday, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

EDITORIAL: The spendthrift’s budget

The president’s budget will be released Wednesday, and he’ll call for more spending. What is it about economics this White House does not understand? All it does better than anyone else is splurge.

April 10, 2013
A Fisker plug-in hybrid car is exhibited at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany in 2009. (Associated Press, file)

EDITORIAL: The end of the road

Fisker Automotive, the hybrid carmaker based in Anaheim, Calif., announced Friday that it would lay off 75 percent of its workforce, a sign the onetime darling of the “greens” is sputtering toward the end of the road. This story grows ever more familiar.

April 10, 2013
A South Korean man reads a newspaper Dec. 13, 2012, on a subway train in Seoul. The newspaper's headline reports North Korea's successful rocket launch the previous day, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear missile. The headline reads "Kim Jung Un's gambling, Obama to aim." (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Loose talk, jangled nerves

Tough talk has its place among the affairs of serious nations, but menacing bluster does not. North Korea has raised bellicosity to a new level with its boasts that it might lob nuclear missiles at American cities. “Leading from behind” is better than “leading with a mouth,” a lesson Kim Jong-un could take to heart.

April 10, 2013
Illustration Wind Power by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Blowing taxpayer money

Uncle Sam doesn't need to do a lot to fill the pockets of favored industries. President Obama has made it clear that he wants any company that claims to be "green" to succeed in the marketplace. So the Internal Revenue Service made a quiet adjustment to the wind production tax credit, delivering a $545 million advantage to the windmill industry.

April 9, 2013
Illustration: Margaret Thatcher

EDITORIAL: A leader with true grit

Just when America and the West needed a shot of testosterone, with Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard settling in to swallow Kuwait's oil, Margaret Thatcher stepped up with a word from the warrior queen. "Don't go wobbly on us, George," she told President George H.W. Bush. He didn't, and the West won.

April 9, 2013
Illustration: Drones by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Grounding the drones

It's easy to throw in the towel when government policies get out of hand. Politicians have succeeded in driving the myth that you can't beat City Hall, which makes it easier to impose unpopular laws and ordinances without the views of the unwashed masses getting in their way.

April 8, 2013
Illustration: Economic recovery by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The sleepy economy

Not even Vice President Joe Biden, the barker of bonhomie who sees something good in just about any headline, can put a gloss on Friday's news: The economy created a net of only 88,000 jobs in March, not the 200,000 or so expected. Unemployment is "down" to 7.6 percent, but only because so many jobseekers have abandoned hope in the face of daunting odds.

April 8, 2013
Republicans on a House panel that probed the collapse of MF Global are pinning the blame on Jon Corzine, a former Democratic senator. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Corzine standard

A friend of the president gets invited to great parties, the chance to hobnob with Hollywood celebrities and sometimes, if the friend gets in trouble, he can pull out a "Get out of jail free" card.

April 8, 2013
A casket at Keeney and Basford Funeral Home in Frederick, Md., displayed a decorative symbol. Casket can have the standard corners replaced with a variety of pieces, allowing families to create a casket that is more about personality than tradition.

EDITORIAL: Burying crony capitalism

An established business knows that the most direct way to dominate the market is to enlist government assistance. Trade groups frequently seek the imposition of licensing requirements — in the name of public safety, of course.

April 5, 2013
** FILE ** Caroline Kennedy at the launch of the JFK Digital Archive, as part of the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, at the National Archives in Washington, on Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: Caroline Kennedy for Tokyo?

Representing the United States abroad is a privilege and honor. Appointments should be chosen carefully; the billets can be challenging, if not perilous. The White House discovered this in Libya, when Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed last Sept. 11 by terrorists in Benghazi.

April 5, 2013
**FILE** President Obama watches the ball after making a putt on the ninth green during his golf match at the Mid-Pacific County Club in Kailua, Hawaii, on Dec. 31, 2009. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The 5 percent solution

It's not as melodramatic or drastic as going on a hunger strike or chaining himself to the White House fence, but President Obama's "sequestering" 5 percent of his $400,000 salary — or $20,000 — during the period of fiscal restraint is a nice gesture.

April 5, 2013
Emily Miller on CNN. April 3, 2013.

VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN (April 3, 2013)

CNN's Don Lemon interviewed Emily Miller on "CNN Newsroom" for a panel debate a over the Associated Press deciding to stop using the term "illegal immigrants." They also discussed whether it is political correct to use the term "gay marriage" instead of "marriage equality" and parents who overshare about their children on Facebook.

April 4, 2013
James E. Hansen

EDITORIAL: Exit Jim Hansen

James E. Hansen will no longer be touring the country preaching his end-times hysteria, collecting a $158,832 government paycheck for it. Mr. Hansen demonstrated a certain mastery of the art of leveraging, using his position as head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies to promote a personal brand of global warming quackery.

April 4, 2013
Rep. Michael R. Turner

EDITORIAL: Shoot, look, shoot

The White House can put aside global warming hysteria. Nuclear proliferation among rogue nations is the real worry, but President Obama isn't persuaded. He has been making sleepy-time choices.

April 4, 2013
Illustration Government Money by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The triumph of mediocrity

Bureaucrats aren't very good at running anything but endless spools of red tape. Federal red ink has just topped $16.8 trillion, showing that neither Congress nor the White House is capable of managing the public purse. Management skills are no better down the line at tiny, obscure offices within the government.

April 4, 2013