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ASSOCIATED PRESS Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets with Sen. Tom Udall, New Mexico Democrat, on Capitol Hill. Newly released e-mails from Elena Kagan's time as an aide to President Clinton portray the Supreme Court nominee as a driven and highly opinionated person with a flair for political tactics and little tolerance for high-flying rhetoric.

EDITORIAL: The case against Kagan

Solicitor General Elena Kagan is too political, too leftist, too inexperienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court. As Ms. Kagan's nomination hearings begin on Monday, what we now know about her should disturb fair-minded Americans, and should embolden moderate senators of both parties to avoid rubber-stamping her for a lifetime appointment.

June 24, 2010
** FILE ** President Obama, followed by, from second from left, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

EDITORIAL: McChrystal’s final agony

Gen. Stanley McChrystal has ended his military career with a self-inflicted wound. He's the victim of a needless crisis in which President Obama seems more defensive than decisive.

June 23, 2010
Job seekers line up to register at a City of Miami Job Fair in Miami on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. The Obama administration is predicting little improvement in the nation's unemployment rate by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

EDITORIAL: Revisionist history on unemployment

The Obama administration claims it bears no responsibility for America's persistently high unemployment rate. At least that's what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said in a press briefing last week. President Obama went further in his Saturday morning radio address, accusing Republicans of making life difficult for the jobless millions. Don't believe the hooey.

June 23, 2010
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers his inaugural address during a ceremony at the War Memorial in Trenton, N.J., on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

EDITORIAL: New Jersey tax revolt

It's crunch time for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The Republican newcomer won a surprise victory last year over incumbent Democrat Jon S. Corzine in a state where President Obama enjoyed a 15-point edge. It was Mr. Christie's signature campaign issue, tax reform, that brought him to the statehouse. Now the former U.S. Attorney has less than a month left to get his proposed constitutional amendment limiting property taxes onto the November ballot.

June 23, 2010
** FILE ** Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., outside the White House. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Pelosi needs to diet

Fat Albert could pretend he wasn't breaking his diet if he refused to count the calories he ate - but that wouldn't make him any less dangerously bloated. By analogy, that's what the House Democratic leadership did by announcing yesterday that it won't pass any federal budget resolution this year. It's a stunningly irresponsible decision.

June 22, 2010
Associated Press James McGee vacuums oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana on Sunday. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday portrayed Republicans as being overly sympathetic toward BP about the spill.

EDITORIAL: Government shares blame for oil disaster

When allocating blame for the crisis in the Gulf, BP executives aren't the only ones with oil on their hands. The British petroleum giant should be held legally liable for damage caused by the oil leak, but only for costs related to its portion of the responsibility. At every step, government has hampered cleanup efforts, thereby exacerbating the problem. That's not BP's fault.

June 22, 2010
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander, U.S. Central Command, prepares to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 16, 2010. The committee gave him a few cookies after the hearing was continued from Tuesday when Gen. Petraeus slumped briefly during testimony, which aides blamed on dehydration and jet lag. At left is Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Vietnam moment

The White House is clinging to President Obama's ill-conceived pledge to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011, regardless of how the war is going at the time. In dogmatically standing by that pledge, Mr. Obama is virtually guaranteeing he will preside over America's second lost war.

June 21, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff was approached by White House officials about his Senate race.

EDITORIAL: Sestak-Romanoff scandal persists

The liberal media may have lost interest in the Obama administration's sleazy job offers to two potential Senate candidates, but the White House shouldn't breathe too easily just yet. Republican congressmen and alternative media remain on the hunt for answers, and for justice.

June 21, 2010
Joe Scott says his Global Positioning System software helps warn drivers of about speed traps and red-light cameras, such as the one at Michigan Avenue at Trinity, or the Third Street tunnel to Interstate 395. Mr. Scott says his software will "help GPS owners to legally avoid unjust traffic tickets." (Peter Lockley/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Rebooting the red-light-camera cash grab

Northern Virginia's streets are set to become more dangerous as a new law takes effect enhancing the profitability of red-light-camera schemes. The robotic ticket machines are already flashing in Arlington and Alexandria, but Arlington next month will become the first northern jurisdiction to issue tickets. Based on the program's dismal results from 1999 to 2005, there will be more people, not fewer, in area hospitals and more cars in body shops.

June 21, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Barack Obama's victory is headline news in papers Abdul Raheem is selling Nov. 5 in Islamabad.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Muslim outreach fiasco

President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world has failed to reap the benefits once expected. The latest report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project indicated that Muslims in the Middle East are less impressed with Mr. Obama now than they were when he first delivered his message of hope and change to Cairo last year.

June 18, 2010
President Obama speaks during a nationally televised address from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Mr. Obama said the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an urgent call for action to cut U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and vowed that BP PLC will be required to spend whatever is needed to repair damage caused by the company's "recklessness." (Bloomberg News/Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool)

EDITORIAL: Move over global warming, BP disaster is here

The left can't "hide the decline" in world temperatures for much longer. Knowing public faith in global warming is on the wane, President Obama was determined to adapt his message Tuesday night. The BP oil spill is now the reason to boost the subsidies to his friends who make windmills and solar panels. Mr. Obama expressed his support for legislation that "finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses."

June 18, 2010
** FILE ** Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Death tax threatens to kill jobs

While Congress weighs the potential of enacting yet another multibillion-dollar stimulus proposal in the name of creating jobs, it is overlooking a legislative time bomb. Unless tax law is modified, mom-and-pop stores could close and family farms disappear, taking with them jobs far more real than those found in stimulus package make-work programs. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, has sounded the alarm over tax-relief provisions that will expire at year's end. It is perhaps most important to the health of our economy to prevent the estate tax, more popularly known as the "death tax," from coming back to life.

June 18, 2010

Briefly: Asia

North apologizes over Chinese deaths

June 17, 2010

World Scene

The pope met Thursday with the head of the Legionaries of Christ before an expected announcement about who will take charge of the conservative order scarred by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child.

June 17, 2010

Culture Briefs

It would be hypocritical, or at least inauthentically self-deprecating, for 'Sunset Boulevard' to suggest that sound, and more specifically words, cheapened cinema.

June 17, 2010

Refreshed ‘11 Azera arrives with improved fuel economy, more horsepower

The 2011 Hyundai Azera adds power and efficiency to a model known for its luxurious appointments. The updated large sedan now includes an advanced six-speed automatic transmission and other powertrain refinements raising the bar on fuel economy in its class, while still gaining horsepower.

June 17, 2010

2010 SRX gives Cadillac a winner

Since its debut last year, the all-new 2010 Cadillac SRX has posted the largest gains in its segment for both sales and projected resale value, establishing SRX as a leader among mid-size luxury crossovers.

June 17, 2010

1948 Plymouth Club Coupe still beautiful

Six decades ago, a young Clayton Miller saw a 1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe Club Coupe and remembers thinking, "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."

June 17, 2010