THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Breaking from bad laws

The latest brawl in the entertainment industry came to a head last weekend. Screens went dark for many of the 14 million subscribers to the Dish Network who attempted to tune in to watch Sunday's season premiere of AMC's hit show, "Breaking Bad."

July 17, 2012

EDITORIAL: Blowing smoke over global warming

Legend has it that Washington was built on a swamp, and its sweltering summers add credence to the story. Lately, global warming adherents have been capitalizing on the city's sultry weather to advance their belief that the use of fossil fuels is responsible for rising temperatures baking the planet.

July 16, 2012

EDITORIAL: Mind your own business, Obama

President Obama thinks business owners don't actually do anything. This is the most convincing proof yet that he has no concept of how the economy works.

July 16, 2012

EDITORIAL: It’s for the children

School's out for the summer, so it came as a bit of a surprise Wednesday when Baltimore County, Md., announced new steps supposedly being taken to protect school children. According to officials, construction has begun for the positioning of a speed camera outside Stoneleigh Elementary.

July 13, 2012

EDITORIAL: Gov. Moonbeam’s ‘Hydrogen Highway’

There's no idea so crazy that you can't find a government grant to implement it. After all, California voters approved a project to build what's now a $70 billion bullet train between Bakersfield and Madera -- two unremarkable cities situated in the middle of nowhere.

July 13, 2012

EDITORIAL: Maryland’s canine holocaust

Man's best friend is coming under ferocious attack. More and more rules and regulations are popping up to condemn dogs based not on their individual character, but whether they look dangerous.

July 12, 2012

EDITORIAL: Escape from Maryland

When times are tight, people look for potential savings wherever they can. Increasingly, Marylanders living under the oppressive tax regime of Gov. Martin F. O'Malley have realized they can get a better deal by packing their bags and heading for the Old Dominion.

July 10, 2012

EDITORIAL: The Islamist pyramid scheme

Radical Muslims want to tear down Egypt's pyramids and take over the world. The least the rest of us can do is take them seriously.

July 10, 2012

EDITORIAL: Demonizing the Kochs

The left is trying to convince the public to hate the Koch brothers. The billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch are a favorite target of liberals because their support of free-market causes serves as a counterbalance to the inordinate sums given to Democrats from unions and Hollywood.

July 10, 2012

EDITORIAL: European Kabuki

Don't expect America's big overseas trading partners to clean up their act anytime soon. The latest European Union summit ended with no clear winners or losers other than possibly German taxpayers.

July 9, 2012

EDITORIAL: The Islamist president’s power grab

The Arab Spring is over; the Egyptian Revolution has begun. Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi issued a decree Sunday reconvening the country's recently dissolved parliament. Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court disagreed, saying its finding that the parliamentary election was unconstitutional was final.

July 9, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama gambles, America loses

The latest Obama 2012 campaign slogan is "Betting on America." However, the latest round of dismal economic news shows that when it comes to the economy, President Obama is a poor gambler, and the country is headed for bust.

July 6, 2012

EDITORIAL: The U.N. is coming for your guns

The United Nations is deliberating over a treaty that will place comprehensive limits on the international weapons trade. The language of the draft agreement is so expansive it wouldn't take an Obama-appointed judge very long to extend the treaty to cover the domestic firearms market as well.

July 5, 2012

EDITORIAL: Court decrees global warming

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled June 26 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was "unambiguously correct" in applying the Clean Air Act to combat carbon dioxide. The court deferred to the scientific judgment of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson in the agency's endangerment finding that this gas, which is produced by all humans, becomes harmful to human health when it is a byproduct of man-made technological advances such as automobiles.

July 5, 2012

EDITORIAL: Government fiddles while the West burns

A U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft outfitted with a modular airborne firefighting system crashed in South Dakota on Sunday, killing four. Meanwhile, a supertanker with a much larger capacity than any aircraft flying is sitting idle as fires continue to rage in the West. That's how government doesn't work.

July 4, 2012

EDITORIAL: Happy Dependence Day

Forget about those fireworks (too dangerous) and their ostentatious display of anachronistic values. Forget also about mom (sexist gender-role stereotype) and apple pie (too fattening). Wednesday has become Dependence Day, a time to reflect on all the good that the federal government does for us.

July 3, 2012

EDITORIAL: When free men shall stand

Two hundred years ago, the United States was mobilizing for conflict. The country had formally declared war for the first time in its history, against Great Britain. Hostilities would last for three years and claim around 20,000 lives on both sides.

July 2, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama’s war on guns and oil

The Obama administration is using more than just the Environmental Protection Agency to "crucify" businesses it doesn't like. Congress won't enact any gun-control measures, and the American people aren't interested in paying more at the pump.

June 29, 2012

EDITORIAL: The pension bubble

As if the housing market collapse and European debt crisis weren't bad enough, another fiscal disaster looms on the horizon. New rules adopted last week by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) clarify the depth of mismanagement of state and local government pension programs.

June 29, 2012

EDITORIAL: Chief Justice Roberts: Genius or traitor?

Conservative opinion on Chief Justice John Roberts in the wake of Thursday's Obamacare decision is as divided as the high court itself. To some, he is a traitor to the right who passed up an opportunity to nullify the "signature achievement" of the Obama administration.

June 29, 2012