THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Housing market follies

If there's ever been a poster child for the folly of government intervention, it's the housing market. Decades of political manipulation set the stage for the collapse that sunk the entire economy. It's going to be a long time before the country gets back on its feet, unless we embrace reform.

September 21, 2011

EDITORIAL: Taking Virginia taxpayers for a ride

The freedom of the open road could soon be a thing of the past for Virginia motorists. Big-government bureaucrats of all political stripes yearn to return to the days when toll barriers were used to shake down anyone using main thoroughfares. They've been upset ever since President Eisenhower's system of gas-tax-funded freeways spurred commerce, industry and travel across the country. On Friday, the Obama administration gave the green light to turn back the clock.

September 21, 2011

Tuning in to TV

"Dancing With the Stars" viewers didn't give Metta World Peace a chance.

September 21, 2011

Briefly: Africa

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya appeared Wednesday before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for a hearing to determine whether he will be tried for crimes against humanity.

September 21, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Palestine

U.S. diplomats are in a state of panic over the upcoming United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood. According to the Palestinians, they are simply doing what the White House suggested.

September 20, 2011

Inside Politics

Sen. Lamar Alexander said Tuesday that he will step down from the ranks of the Senate GOP leadership, leaving the No. 3 job in January. He also decided against seeking the No. 2 job of GOP whip.

September 20, 2011

Economy Briefs

Google Inc. has opened up its Google Plus social network to everyone after testing it with a limited audience for 12 weeks.

September 20, 2011

Sports Briefs

Novak Djokovic said the back muscle injury that forced him to quit his Davis Cup match is not serious but requires rest.

September 19, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s phony debt plan

Without any trace of irony, the White House's new 10-year deficit-reduction plan is titled "Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future." It achieves neither of these objectives, but you would never know that by looking at the deceptively rosy future it promises.

September 19, 2011

EDITORIAL: Nuclear Iran confronts the U.N.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returns Thursday for his annual New York gala performance. The Iranian president is renowned for anti-Western antics at the opening session of the United Nations, but this time will be different. Concrete advances in Tehran's nuclear program over the past year move the threat level from theoretical to immediate. Absent tangible evidence of the will to check an overt menace within its midst, the world body purportedly devoted to peace faces its own existential danger: irrelevance.

September 19, 2011

Inside Politics

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is criticizing presidential rival Texas Gov. Rick Perry's support for public benefits for the children of illegal immigrants.

September 19, 2011

Briefly: Americas

After leading minority governments since 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally got to flex his conservative political will Monday at the helm of his first majority in parliament.

September 19, 2011

American Scene

Two men accused of driving around with a dead friend and using his ATM card to withdraw $400 at a strip club are charged with abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation.

September 18, 2011

World Scene

Dozens of Syrian opposition members on Sunday called on President Bashar Assad to end his deadly six-month crackdown or face an escalation in peaceful protests, as security forces fired warning shots to disperse high school students calling for the regime's downfall.

September 18, 2011

Briefly: Europe

Voters in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein have rejected a proposal to legalize abortion after the country's prince threatened to veto any change in the law.

September 18, 2011

EDITORIAL: Gore’s bore-a-thon

According to Al Gore's website, "millions" tuned in to watch the 24-hour global warming filibuster that concluded Thursday. Few were moved to anything but laughter.

September 16, 2011

EDITORIAL: Lead from the front in Libya

The overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya is being called a model for cooperative regime change. Unless the United States and its allies work to shape the successor government in Tripoli, it may turn into a model for post-conflict failure.

September 16, 2011

Inside Politics

Aides to Connecticut's governor say they perceived the words of a New Jersey blogger as a real threat.

September 15, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama and the Jews

The Republican upset victory in the special election for New York's heavily Jewish 9th Congressional District has set off alarm bells in Democratic political circles. The White House is launching an outreach effort to American Jews to convince them that Mr. Obama is the best friend Israel has ever had in Washington. If that were even remotely true, there would be no desperate need for outreach.

September 15, 2011