THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Not so high-speed rail

Trainmakers interested in getting a big slice of taxpayer cash have until May 11 to notify federal officials that they want to build America's next-generation high-speed rail cars. Over $550 million is being made available for these next-generation purchases through a program meant to fulfill the White House vision of "trains zipping along at up to 220 miles per hour in our most densely populated corridors."

April 24, 2012

EDITORIAL: The imperial city

Times are great. Unemployment is down, income is up and economic growth continues - only if you live in the national capital region. For the rest of America, tough luck.

April 23, 2012

EDITORIAL: More fracking red tape

Newton's law says for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Obama's law says for every innovation, there is an equal and opposite regulation. Despite President Obama's assurance he is doing everything he can to solve the nation's energy woes, his minions are busily grinding out fresh regulations to ensure only unaffordable power options have a chance at success.

April 23, 2012

EDITORIAL: Waiting for the centrist Superman

Every four years around the time the presidential primaries begin to wrap up, the drumbeat from pundits begins: If only a centrist superhero would swoop in and save the day, espousing bold self-control and a issuing a resounding call to pragmatism. Sorry to ruin the fantasy for you, but Superman doesn't exist.

April 20, 2012

EDITORIAL: Where’s the recovery?

April remains a cruel month. New jobless claims are the highest they've been since late January, with the four-week average stubbornly hovering around the 375,000 mark. Though we're technically in a recovery, nobody believes it. A Rasmussen Reports survey earlier this week shows a majority is under the impression America is still in recession. That's for good reason.

April 20, 2012

EDITORIAL: Giving terrorists a leg up

The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday published 2-year-old photos of American soldiers in Afghanistan smiling while holding body parts of dead suicide bombers. Editor Davan Maharaj justified publication saying the paper has "a particular duty to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan."

April 19, 2012

EDITORIAL: End the government’s partying

If there were ever any doubt that the federal government is out of control, the recent revelations of taxpayer-fueled parties at the General Services Administration (GSA) should put it to rest. Both House and Senate committees this week began digging deeper into the $822,751 shindig the agency hosted at a Las Vegas luxury hotel.

April 19, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama’s dog days

The 2012 presidential campaign has become a dog-eat-dog contest. For months, Obama campaign operatives sought to make an issue of Mitt Romney carrying his Irish setter Seamus in a rooftop dog carrier during a family vacation in 1983.

April 18, 2012

EDITORIAL: ‘Fair’ elections, Obama-style

The November presidential election is shaping up as a clear choice between a vision of a smaller federal role and President Obama's view that there's no limit to what the government can do. One thing the administration won't do is ensure the choices Americans make at the ballot box are properly counted.

April 17, 2012

EDITORIAL: America, we have a problem

Traffic stopped Tuesday morning, and people watched the Space Shuttle Discovery make a low flyby of the nation's capital. The veteran spacecraft was ferried atop a Boeing 747 to its final assignment as a museum exhibit. It was a fitting farewell to another symbol of America's former glory.

April 17, 2012

EDITORIAL: Sticky regulatory throttle

The Obama administration is so committed to redesigning the automobile that it's taking over the way the gas and brake pedals are made to protect Americans from a nonexistent threat.

April 16, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama gives Iran a freebie

When the doors opened after Saturday's meeting of the permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council plus Germany and Iran, the Iranian delegation seemed to hold the upper hand. Lead negotiator Saeed Jalili said the talks were productive but maintained, "Enrichment of uranium is one of these rights that every individual member state [of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] should benefit from and enjoy for peaceful purposes."

April 16, 2012

EDITORIAL: Making Tax Day worse

Americans who thought Tax Day was bad this year could find it far worse next year. Tuesday happens to be Tax Freedom Day, the date by which taxpayers have earned enough to pay off Uncle Sam and start earning for themselves. This occasion will fall even later next year if President Obama succeeds in making the tax code more complicated and expensive.

April 16, 2012

EDITORIAL: Washington’s tax revolt

The other Washington - the state on the left coast - is fed up with taxes. That's a bit surprising considering the liberal outpost happily cast its 11 electoral votes for Barack Obama and hasn't sided with a Republican in nearly three decades.

April 13, 2012

EDITORIAL: On the tracks to bankruptcy

California's fanciful bullet train project embodies everything that is wrong with government today. The state's High-Speed Rail Authority on Tuesday released details of a revised business plan that claims laying down tracks from Los Angeles to San Francisco will now cost a mere $68 billion instead of $98 billion - as if that were a bargain.

April 13, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama’s tax hike patriotism

Vice President Joe Biden says paying higher taxes is patriotic. He must have forgotten that America was founded on a tax revolt.

April 13, 2012

EDITORIAL: Gun-free campuses are safety-free zones

Five years ago Monday, 32 students and teachers lost their lives in a shooting at Virginia Tech. Earlier this month, seven students were killed and three wounded at a small California Christian university. These tragedies exemplify the failure of "gun-free" school zones and are evidence for the need to overturn concealed carry bans on campuses so law-abiding citizens can defend themselves against maniacs.

April 12, 2012

EDITORIAL: The left’s war on moms

Sometimes a rare flash of honesty makes all the difference in politics. Democratic operative Hilary Rosen single-handedly changed the course of the 2012 election with her dig at Ann Romney, wife of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

April 12, 2012

EDITORIAL: Obama’s man crush on Reagan

President Obama has developed a serious case of man love for Ronald Reagan. He just can't stop talking about him. As longtime friends of Dutch, we have to tell the president: He's just not that into you.

April 11, 2012

EDITORIAL: A streetcar named debt

The District on Friday completed the first phase of testing for its $1.5 billion streetcar project. The nation's capital joins big cities like Los Angeles in advancing the revival of a transportation option that has been obsolete for more than half a century. The Obama administration is spearheading the effort to turn back the clock.

April 10, 2012