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Illustration: DNA locked away by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Preserving genetic privacy

Science has broken the code of human composition and can read the genetic "fingerprint" unique to each person. The forensic technique of collecting DNA raises serious privacy concerns, however, especially when government demands it with the force of law.

February 21, 2013
Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Disorganized Labor

America's criminal justice system is meant to treat everyone as equal before the law. Often it doesn't. Perpetrators of violence, intimidation and extortion get a free pass if they're union activists.

February 20, 2013
Illustration: Energy distress by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Energy’s bad charges

The White House insists investments in renewable-energy technologies will pay off with a strong middle class. As President Obama declared in last week's State of the Union, increasing government spending on solar panels will "drive down costs even further" and kick off an explosion in the green jobs of the future.

February 20, 2013
This image shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. The 150-foot object passed within 17,000 miles of the Earth. (Associated Press/NASA/JPL-Caltech)

EDITORIAL: Asteroid stimulus

Great rocks have tumbled from the sky since there was an Earth for them to tumble on, but the asteroid falling in Russia's Ural Mountains was the largest caught live on film. Dramatic footage shows pieces of a 10,000-ton cosmic object streaking through the atmosphere, glowing brighter than the sun.

February 19, 2013
Illustration Natural Gas by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Another government gas boondoggle

Uncle Sam's an uninvited guest at every child's birthday party. The floating balloons that decorate such festivities are filled with helium, a gas that's coming up scarce thanks to a market-distorting federal government boondoggle that has mostly gone unnoticed.

February 19, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The island of hypocrisy

Not so long ago, having offshore investments was a bad thing. Throughout the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama pummeled Mitt Romney for his successful career at Bain Capital. He was derided as an outsourcer, a shipper of jobs to Mexico and a tax dodger with tax shelters in the Cayman Islands.

February 18, 2013
Illustration: Political party brawl by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Cheater’s capital

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has lived, worked or interned in Washington that the city has been named as "America's least faithful city," according to a poll conducted by an online dating website tailored for "married dating."

February 15, 2013
Illustration by Mark Weber

EDITORIAL: Huddled masses in retirement

Entitlement spending and immigration are two issues that threaten America's financial future. The two controversies meet in the case of the newly arrived elderly, many of whom have discovered they can cash in on an overly generous welfare system.

February 15, 2013
Illustration: Employment by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Making workers unemployable

Perhaps one of the most disastrous policies President Obama called for in his Tuesday night address was a hike in the minimum wage. Raising this government mandate from $7.25 to $9 an hour by 2015 is the surest way to ensure Americans who are down on their luck have no chance to escape the unemployment lines.

February 14, 2013
Illustration: Green jobs by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Green power to the people

Energy is the key to America's economic future. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the nation into one increasingly dependent on sunshine and breezes to power the economy.

February 14, 2013
Illustration by William Brown

EDITORIAL: Tortured logic on drones

If truth is the first casualty of war, consistency is probably the second. The loudest critics of President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism policies have fallen silent as our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president ordered the killing of Americans in drone strikes.

February 13, 2013
Illustration: Constitution by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Renting away our rights

There can be no rest when it comes to defending constitutional rights. Government at every level constantly chips away at the fundamental principle that Americans should just be left alone if they're not doing anything wrong.

February 13, 2013
Illustration American Cars by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Black boxes turn cars into tattle tools

Cellphones can track our conversations and whereabouts, but they're not the only devices that have gotten too smart for our own good. Uncle Sam is planning to mandate data recorders as standard equipment in all new vehicles to snoop on the driving habits of the public.

February 12, 2013
Customs and Border Protection Officer Rebecca Rhinehart asks a passenger about something in his suitcase at Washington Dulles International Airport. Customs officers search for illegal drugs, plants, animal products and food items. (The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s license to snoop

Uncle Sam is downloading the contents of laptops, cellphones and digital cameras belonging to international travelers. The widespread snooping may help agents discover whether someone illegally downloaded music before boarding a long flight, but it also has chilling implications for personal privacy.

February 12, 2013
Illustration Empowering Workers by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Bring up right to work

Tired of lagging economic growth, wasteful government spending and high unemployment, states in the industrial Midwest have decided to break the iron triangle between Big Labor bosses, union political spending and the politicians who do their bidding.

February 11, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, addresses delegates at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Rand Paul’s foreign-policy vision

As the past four years have demonstrated, things go bad when a president lacks a clear foreign-policy vision. The lack of coherence in our dealings with other nations has emboldened our foes, who suffer no consequence when they murder our ambassadors and kill our citizens.

February 8, 2013
Undated photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, Monday Feb. 4, 2013, of the earliest surviving portrait of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral, ahead of an announcement about the identity of the skeleton found underneath a car park last September. Richard was immortalized in a play by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies — including those of his two young nephews, murdered in the Tower of London — on his way to the throne. (AP Photo/ University of Leicester)

EDITORIAL: A bad rap on Richard III

Richard III's bones turned up under a parking lot in the English Midlands city of Leceister, but the dust is hardly settled. Yes, say the archaeologists and pathologists, he did not die on a horse, affirming Shakespeare's version of the king's plaintive cry, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"

February 8, 2013
Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Attack of the Obama drones

President Obama's practice of killing purported terrorists with airborne drone strikes overseas has ventured into uncharted legal territory. The maneuver is likely to trigger pointed questions when White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan faces a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday as CIA director nominee.

February 7, 2013
Illustration: Federal land grab by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Government land grab put to bed

The Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Mass., won't be found on any world's best hotel lists, but it has become a five-star example of the need for Congress to enact comprehensive civil asset-forfeiture reform.

February 7, 2013