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President Barack Obama waves as he steps off Air Force One upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: The wrong message

Symbolism matters, and President Obama knows it. When the president spoke at Georgetown University in 2009, his advance team asked that the Roman Catholic university cover an image derived from the first three Greek letters of the name of Jesus Christ.

March 26, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The wasted hour

''Earth Hour" ticked away while we slept through Saturday night, the bright idea of environmentalists who want to shame the rest of us into turning off the lights. Anyone who stayed up for it wasted the hour. The stunt is an extension of the hype surrounding global warming, preaching the message that individuals can "make a difference" and alter temperatures in the cosmos.

March 26, 2013
Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: No candles for Obamacare

Saturday marked the third anniversary of President Obama's proudest accomplishment, his takeover of America's health care. Advocates of this bold disaster vowed to reduce health care costs, increase consumer choice, reduce the deficit and "grow" the economy.

March 25, 2013
In this file photo from Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Curt Garman, left, and Richard Looke hold hands as they look for a quiet spot to hold their wedding at City Hall in San Francisco. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, to hear the appeal of a ruling that struck down Proposition 8, the state’s measure that banned same sex marriages. The highly anticipated decision by the court means same-sex marriages will not resume in California any time soon. The justices likely will not issue a ruling until spring of next year. A federal appeals court ruled in February that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. But the court delayed implementing the order until same-sex marriage opponents proponents could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

EDITORIAL: Saving marriage

When Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a Republican, announced earlier this month that he has evolved into a supporter of same-sex marriage after years of faithfully defending actual marriage, it seemed more a matter of shifting convenience than a blinding conversion of conscience.

March 25, 2013
Illustration Second Amendment by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Second Amendment skirmishes

Gun owners relaxed a little last week when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded that Democrats lack the votes for Senate passage of an "assault weapon" ban. But relaxing the fight is premature. Gun-control advocates had a good week, too, with small victories in Colorado and Maryland.

March 25, 2013
**FILE** Ashley Judd (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Jettisoning Judd

When Ashley Judd, the liberal actress and activist, first floated the idea of running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky many Democrats from Washington to Louisville all but swooned at the prospect. She seemed like the party's best shot at taking out their biggest boogeymen, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate.

March 22, 2013
Illustration: Government money

EDITORIAL: Fiscal follies

The House on Thursday passed an ambitious plan to bring the budget into balance within the next 10 years. It's a shame the spending blueprint, crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, isn't likely to go far. President Obama is more interested in releasing his March Madness tournament picks than in pushing Democrats to deal with a mere budget.

March 22, 2013
President Obama speaks during in a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Muqata Presidential Compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on March 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Nice hat, but where’s the cattle?

Israel is a land of symbols. It's fitting then that President Obama's arrival in the Holy Land on Wednesday was bedeviled by a breakdown. The wrong fuel for the president's limousine (diesel instead of gasoline) was quickly remedied, but four years of U.S. policies that have fueled turmoil in the region won't be fixed so easily.

March 22, 2013
Illustration by Mark Weber

EDITORIAL: The immigration trap

The Republican National Committee's postelection "autopsy" report issued Monday suggests that comprehensive immigration reform could improve the party's sagging fortunes with Hispanic voters.

March 21, 2013
** FILE ** California Gov. Jerry Brown. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Austerity on rails

Washington is gripped by sequestration fever. Or sequestration chills, depending on the point of view. The White House complains that it's suffering severe spending withdrawal, and Congress, or at least half of Congress, says it's suffering the pangs of hunger for more and deeper spending cuts.

March 21, 2013
Sophia Hendrick, Lt. Damon Baird, Augustus Cole and Garron Paduk star in the video game Gears of War: Judgment.

EDITORIAL: Gaming bad taste

It's over a quarter-century now since Al Gore, then a senator from Tennessee, held congressional hearings to determine whether there was a link between heavy-metal music and cheap sex and violence. At a session Al probably doesn't want to remember, classic hard-rock anthems like Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" were blamed as "contributing factors" to the ills of society.

March 21, 2013
Illustration: U.N. gun grabbing by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Gun control by the U.N.

Bureaucrats from 150 nations are ramping up efforts to impose gun control through international pact. Here in the United States, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has become the vehicle to drive an agenda that is deeply controversial because once a treaty is ratified by the Senate, it becomes the supreme law of the land.

March 20, 2013
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Not dead yet

Reports of the death of the Republican Party are greatly exaggerated, notwithstanding the release Monday of the details of an "autopsy" figuring out what went wrong in the 2012 elections.

March 20, 2013
Illustration: Hugo Chavez

EDITORIAL: Rotting dictators

In death, Hugo Chavez won't get the immortal perch he hoped for. Tardy embalmers ruined any plans to put the body of the late Venezuelan president on permanent display, like those of Lenin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh. To add insult to injury, the hug his pal Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave Chavez's mother at his funeral has turned grief into an occasion for a new outburst of extremist rants.

March 20, 2013
Dachshund Molly, right, cuts in front of last year's winner Longfellow to take one of the top three spots in a run off during the Annual Savannah Weiner Dawg Race on historic River Street, Saturday Oct. 4, 2008 in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)

EDITORIAL: And now even the dogs

The president's health care reform was supposed to make medical treatment more affordable, especially for the uninsured. The closer we come to implementation, we can count the ways it won't. Visits to the doctor will be very expensive, not just for humans, but for dogs, cats and even goldfish.

March 19, 2013
Illustration by M. Ryder

EDITORIAL: Unlocking the Keystone pipeline

Weary of waiting for President Obama to provide leadership and relief for fuel prices, Democrats and Republicans in Washington are boarding the bandwagon for the Keystone XL pipeline. Partisan politics stop at the gas pump.

March 19, 2013
Illustration: Big Brother's Eye (Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Setback for the snoopers

In the wake of Sept. 11, many Americans cheerfully gave law enforcement the benefit of almost any doubt. It was "anything goes" if it meant stopping enemies from ever having an upper hand again. Unfortunately, the bureaucracy has been cheerfully willing to bypass judicial oversight on the way to obtaining unprecedented access to personal information of good Americans.

March 19, 2013
Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare application

The Internal Revenue Service must now defer to the Department of Health and Human Services as the chief goblin of the American taxpayer. The task of signing up for mandatory health insurance will soon rival the notorious Form 1040 for complexity and anxiety.

March 18, 2013
**FILE** A sign is shown inside of electric car maker Tesla Motors showroom in San Jose, Calif., on May 25, 2011. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Unplug the electric subsidies

President Obama stopped by Argonne National Laboratory in his Chicago hometown on Friday to demand Americans hand over another $2 billion in subsidies for electric cars. Liberals love trading in sensible sedans for these trendy "green" golf carts.

March 18, 2013
greeting the faithful: Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday after his election. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Smoke over the Falklands

Sometimes smoke gets in the eyes not only of lovers, but of priests and politicians as well. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and Pope Francis are engaged in a long-distance disagreement over the pontiff's assertion two years ago, when he was a mere archbishop, that Britain had "usurped" the Falklands by winning a war with Argentina 30 years ago.

March 18, 2013