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EDITORIAL: Harassing gun owners

Liberal hopes to renew Bill Clinton's "assault weapon" ban are beginning to fade, but liberal bitterness is hard to conceal. Opponents of gun rights are turning their attention to legislative harassment.

April 3, 2013
Daniel Romeike, 13, does school work at his home Friday, March 13, 2009 in Morristown, Tenn. Uwe Romeike and his wife Hannalore have moved their family into a modest duplex home while they seek political asylum because they say they were persecuted for their religious beliefs by home-schooling their young children in Germany. School attendance is compulsory there and educating children at home is not allowed. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

EDITORIAL: A plea from abused home-schoolers

The open border so dear to the hearts of many Democrats, eager to get the 11 million illegal aliens on the voter rolls, ends short of compassion for refugees from First World countries, as Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have found out. The administration is working overtime to deport this family because they home-school their children.

April 3, 2013
Dr. Ben S. Carson (Courtesy of Dr. Carson)

EDITORIAL: Long knives for Ben Carson

Among the people who "do more before breakfast than most others do all day," Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins is atop the list. What he does really is brain surgery, and not just brain surgery, but brain surgery on infants, the most delicate of patients.

April 3, 2013
Illustration School Choice by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The real civil rights issue

Liberals spent all of last week portraying the legalization of homosexual wedlock as "the civil rights issue of our time." As that theme suffused debate at the U.S. Supreme Court, a state high court stepped up and decided the real civil rights issue of our time.

April 2, 2013
Illustration: EPA overreach by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: EPA rules over all

There's a full-court press under way, and it's not just on a basketball floor leading up to the Final Four. The Environmental Protection Agency has joined league with the earth-huggers to smother resistance to their "green" agenda.

April 2, 2013
Illustration U.S. regulations by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Freedom’s just another word

Freedom means different things to each of us, but in New Jersey, California and New York, shrinking personal and economic freedom means shrinking population. In the decade since 2001, New York has lost 9 percent of its population, California 4.5 percent, and New Jersey 5.6 percent.

April 2, 2013
** FILE ** News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

EDITORIAL: Let Murdoch be Murdoch

For those just waking up from a multidecade nap, the world has changed markedly since 1975. Led Zeppelin, Olivia Newton-John and Chicago no longer top the record charts. Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl have joined Hank Williams in the great Opry House in the sky. "Maude," "Columbo" and "Happy Days" no longer rule the nation's television screens.

April 1, 2013
Illustration Health Care Bubble by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Medicaid’s big white elephant

Easy money from the federal government is hard to resist. After all, it's "free." A key section of Obamacare makes states the offer they can't refuse: Expand eligibility for Medicaid on an unrealistic scale, and Uncle Sam will hand over a big, fat check.

April 1, 2013
Illustration Voter IDs by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Securing the ballot

Nothing is quite so implausible as a Democrat claiming he's against something because it's "too expensive." Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says he vetoed a prospective law requiring voters to show identification before casting a ballot because it would cost $300,000.

April 1, 2013
Actors reenact Jesus Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday, in Gauhati, India, Friday, April 2, 2010. Good Friday is observed as a day of mourning in memory of the crucifixion of Christ. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

EDITORIAL: The Passion

The chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. And Herod with his men of war set Him at nought, and mocked Him, and arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him again to Pilate. The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

March 29, 2013
Diogo Morgado as Jesus, center, is baptized by Daniel Percival, as John, in a scene from History's "The Bible." The five-part mini-series, produced by the husband-and-wife team of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, concluded March, 31. The producers now plan on bringing the story to the big screen. (AP Photo/History, Joe Alblas)

EDITORIAL: The Good Book’s big numbers

Television watchers across the country are glomming on to an unlikely megahit: the History Channel's 10-hour retelling of stories from the Bible. To the disbelief of Hollywood executives, viewers are shunning a lineup that includes "Revenge" and "The Mentalist" to watch another telling of the greatest story ever told.

March 28, 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: Bless his heart

Gallantry doesn't come naturally to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. He attempted a little faux gallantry the other day at a Democratic Party conference in Charleston, S.C., in a critique of Nikki Haley, South Carolina's Republican governor.

March 28, 2013
Illustration Whirlpool Ruling by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Reining in class action

Trial lawyers saw their dreams of striking it rich diminish significantly Wednesday. The Supreme Court ruled that classes for class-action lawsuits must be certified based on facts. Comcast v. Behrend puts lower courts on notice. On Friday, the court should send a warning to the trial bar by agreeing to hear an appeal in the case of the smelly washing machines.

March 28, 2013
Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, holds the four-volume report asserting that for-profit colleges often hit students with exorbitant tuition, aggressive recruiting and abysmal outcomes. Monday, July 30, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Harkin hypocrisy

Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa purely hates "big money" in politics, though he's willing to make an exception for donors to the proposed Harkin Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State University.

March 27, 2013
In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Guantanamo detainees, in white, and U.S. military guards walk around Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court reversed a ruling Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees, none of whom are labeled enemy combatants, to the United States. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

EDITORIAL: Gitmo glam

Gitmo is about to get a face-lift. The Pentagon is looking into a $150 million scheme to spruce up the 11-year-old U.S. detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the not-so-happy home of 166 veterans of Osama bin Laden's war against America.

March 27, 2013
An old football scoreboard is broken and vandalized at Hinchliffe Stadium. The run-down, lonely ballpark was once a place of great community pride during the years of the Negro Leagues. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Scoreboard envy

Some politicians in Maryland's Montgomery County are afflicted with playground scoreboard envy. They think a little redistribution could equalize their field of dreams.

March 27, 2013
Emily Miller on Fox Business Channel's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." March 25, 2013

VIDEO: Emily Miller on Fox Business (March 25, 2013)

On on the Fox Business Network, Senior Editor of Opinion Emily Miller was part the political A-team panel on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Feb. 15. Mr. Dobbs asked about The Washington Times story on Mayor Mike Bloomberg's irresponsible gun-control ads, the Supreme Court hearing gay marriage cases and other topics.

March 26, 2013
Nadia Chayka and her fiance, Luke Otterstad, both proponents of Proposition 8, hold up a sign outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Wednesday. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, violated the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Constitution. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The right precedent

The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a pair of same-sex marriage cases this week, and much of the legal speculation is clearly wrong. Those looking to undermine the traditional understanding of matrimony are obsessed with a 1967 decision, Loving v. Virginia, which overturned state laws barring interracial marriage.

March 26, 2013