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Illustration: Black Panther justice by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Black Ops on Black Panther case

The Justice Department still hasn't explained its decision to drop most of its voter-intimidation case against violent Black Panthers 18 months ago. If the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finally adopts its report on the controversy, the great lengths Justice officials have taken to avoid scrutiny will be exposed.

November 16, 2010
** File ** This is a Nov. 12, 2009 file photo of a member of staff from Manchester Airport demonstrating a security scanner. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe on Monday Jan. 4, 2010 and airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson/PA, File)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s hand in your crotch

The Transportation Security Administration's demeaning new "enhanced pat-down" procedures are a direct result of the Obama administration's willful blindness to the threat from Islamic radicals. While better tools are available to keep air travelers safe, they would involve recognizing the threat for what it is, which is something the White House will never do.

November 15, 2010
President Obama meets with members of his Cabinet to discuss the response to BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, White House Adviser on climate and energy Carol Browner, and the president. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: O Force politicizes science

Gulf Coast residents have plenty of reasons to be furious at the Obama administration's ham-handed, job-killing responses to last spring's BP oil spill. A new report by the Interior Department's inspector general further roils the waters.

November 15, 2010
Rep. Joe Barton. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: The GOP’s term-limits test

Over the next few weeks, ownership of the House will transition from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, to Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. That change can't happen soon enough, but it won't be easy. One of the first challenges for the presumptive speaker's team will be selecting committee chairmen for the 112th Congress. The heads of those panels will influence the direction of the body for years to come.

November 15, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s international strikeout

Margaret Thatcher once said that being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. At the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, President Obama asserted that the results of the midterm elections have not diminished his power internationally and that in some ways, he is even stronger, thanks to the friendships he allegedly has developed with world leaders.

November 12, 2010
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, has been dismissive of efforts to curb earmarks. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Senate GOP’s earmark death panel

The Tea Party's influence on the direction of Senate Republicans in the 112th Congress is about to be put to the test. Grass-roots activism helped swell the ranks of the chamber's fiscal hawks with several newly elected members who are fired up about banning earmarks. When the Republican conference meets next week to consider South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint's resolution that would end the practice for its members, the outcome will demonstrate whether Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky or Mr. DeMint and the Tea Party have captured the heart and soul of the Senate GOP.

November 12, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

EDITORIAL: The U.N.’s global tax scheme

The world's leftists dream of the day when they might erect an international taxation system. Such would be the bottomless well from which they could exploit the world's productive energies to bankroll utopian schemes and build bigger, better and, most important, higher-paying global bureaucracies. Steps were taken last week to make this dream a reality.

November 12, 2010
NO MANEUVERING: The presumed House Speaker-to-be John A. Boehner says lawmakers will freely debate raising the debt ceiling. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A bright idea for Boehner

Ohio Republican Rep. John A. Boehner, presumptive speaker for the 112th Congress, ought to thank the Tea Party for handing him an electoral win larger than any other in recent memory. The best way to do so would be to engineer a few short-term public-policy victories that quickly would showcase the difference new House management can make.

November 11, 2010
Illustration: Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: T&A at the TSA

There is no bigger threat to America's aviation industry than the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In less than a decade, the bureaucratic agency has heightened the hassle involved in taking to the skies. One can only imagine how much longer it will be before the majority of Americans decide they'd be better off hitting the highways.

November 11, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. pauses while talking to campaign workers at his campaign headquarters in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010.

EDITORIAL: Reid’s $10 billion tunnel to nowhere

The re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a blow to America's quest for cleaner energy. That's because the Nevada senator, in league with President Obama, can proceed with his campaign to short-circuit nuclear power.

November 11, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question from a journalist during a joint press conference with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta on Tuesday November 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Bay ISMOYO, Pool)

EDITORIAL: Muslim wars: A new beginning

Speaking from his boyhood home of Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday, President Obama said, "America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam." His talking point misses the point because Islam is at war with America.

November 10, 2010
** FILE ** In a Dec. 3, 2009, file photo, Frank Buckles, from West Virginia, 108, appears on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate National Parks subcommittee. Buckles, now 109, America's last surviving World War I veteran and the honorary chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation, said Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, that Congress should pass legislation to create a memorial in the nation's capital honoring veterans of that conflict. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

EDITORIAL: Serving those who served

Frank W. Buckles, age 109, still gives interviews about World War I, of which he is the last living American veteran. By contrast, about 2.08 million American veterans of World War II remain among us, but nearly 1,000 die each day. More than 2.5 million Korean War veterans are still alive, and more than 7.5 million Vietnam vets. Gulf War vets number more than 2.25 million. In all, living veterans from war and peacetime service amount to nearly 24 million, including 1.4 million Americans currently on active duty. This amounts to less than 8 percent of the U.S. population. The other 92 percent of us owe them a debt of gratitude very difficult to repay.

November 10, 2010

EDITORIAL: Unfair blame

When Hollywood decides a former White House aide is fair game for attack, facts don't come into play. History, however, cannot be so cavalier about the truth. The new movie "Fair Game" - based on the outing of CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson during political battles concerning the war in Iraq - is anything but fair or honest. In depicting former vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as a sinister point man in a broad effort to destroy Mrs. Wilson's career while concocting a fraudulent case for the war, the movie perpetuates myths that improperly damage U.S. credibility.

November 9, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama, greets the Indian delegation present at the airport to see him off in the traditional Indian way of namaste as he leaves for Indonesia at the end of their tour of India, at the airport in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

EDITORIAL: Obama and America’s decline

In India on Sunday, President Obama announced the decline of the United States as an economic power. "For most of my lifetime ... the U.S. was such an enormously dominant economic power ... that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms," he lamented. "And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the U.S. remains the largest economy and the largest market, but there is real competition." Always ready to underreckon our country abroad, the president concluded that the upside to this relative decline in U.S. fortunes is that "this will keep America on its toes. America is going to have to compete."

November 9, 2010
Technician Charles Riggings in March services traffic cameras designed to catch speeders and motorists who run red lights in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Freedom 15, Big Brother 0

Midterm election coverage has largely focused on the historic shift of power in Washington, for obvious reasons. This partisan story line has overshadowed one of last week's most significant bipartisan wins as Democrats, Republicans and independents banded together across all demographic lines in five cities to banish Big Brother.

November 8, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: Run, Nancy, run

After last week's midterm meltdown for Democrats, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would seek the position of House minority leader in the new Congress. The Washington Times enthusiastically endorses her candidacy.

November 8, 2010
Three men cast their ballots on election day in the basement of Zion Lutheran Church Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)

EDITORIAL: The regularity of voting irregularities

Voting irregularities marred elections last week. This recurring problem will get worse so long as laws governing how Americans register and cast ballots are liberalized instead of tightened.

November 8, 2010
Tim Eyman holds his daughter Riley, 1, in July 2009 while updating a board tallying petition signatures for getting an initiative on the Washington state ballot. Mike Fagan holds the board. Mr. Eyman co-sponsored Initiative 1053 which passed with 66 percent of the vote on Nov. 2, 2010. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Overturning Obama

The aftershocks of last week's electoral earthquake continue to be felt. Yet the shake-up at the national level tells only half the story. Voters showed their displeasure with the country's direction with their votes on ballot-box battles centered far outside the Beltway.

November 5, 2010
FILE- This is a file photo of John Travolta and Karen Gorney dance in a nightclub scene to disco music in Paramount Pictures 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever", which explores the restless generation growing up in the 70's. John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study. (AP Photo/HO, File)

EDITORIAL: Reviving ‘70s stagflation

As President Obama restores the Jimmy Carter-era solar panels to the executive mansion, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is bringing back Mr. Carter's monetary policy, running the printing presses faster than they've run since lava lamps and disco were in style.

November 5, 2010