THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Meltdown of the climate-change bill

Supporters of climate-change legislation veered into the path of another liberal Senate priority during the weekend. The collision has left the strategy of the global-warming theocracy in pieces, at least for the moment.

April 27, 2010

EDITORIAL: Comedy Central caves to terrorism

If the war against Islamic extremism were left to Comedy Central, it would have been lost by now. The network's decision to censor last week's episode of "South Park" depicting Muhammad was an act of unilateral surrender in the face of violent jihadist threats.

April 26, 2010

EDITORIAL: Discrimination is necessary

First-graders should not be forced into the classrooms of teachers undergoing sex changes. Religious broadcasters and faith-based summer camps should not be forced to hire cross-dressers. Women should not be forced to share bathrooms with people with male body parts who say they want to be females. Yet those are some of the likely results if Congress passes H.R. 3017, the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which is due for a vote this week by the House Education and Labor Committee.

April 23, 2010

EDITORIAL: Government Motors repayment fraud

General Motors lost $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009 and is still struggling to reorganize so the company can try to eke out a profit. This grim reality didn't stop GM from making hay last week for supposedly paying back a $6.7 billion government loan five years ahead of schedule. What was left unsaid was that the automaker used another kitty of taxpayer cash to pay off the earlier government loan. This is an accounting shell game, not progress.

April 23, 2010

EDITORIAL: Public-sector unions bankrupting America

Usually it takes a national government to spend itself into a debt measured in the trillions. Yet it comes as little surprise that the same profligacy that pervades the corridors of federal power infects this country's 87,000 state, county and municipal governments and school districts. By 2013, the amount of retirement money promised to employees of these public entities will exceed cash on hand by more than a trillion dollars.

April 23, 2010

Culture briefs

"Welcome to the simplicity movement, the ethos whose mantras are 'cutting back,' 'focusing on the essentials,' 'reconnecting to the land'."

April 23, 2010

Political Scene

Pay raises? Not in election year

April 23, 2010

EDITORIAL: Big-government extremism

The rising wave of popular activism in the United States is ritually derided by liberal commentators, politicians and academics as fringe-movement politics. But recent polling reveals that skepticism about government is broad and deep. Discontent with Washington has become the mainstream position; those who defend big government are the real extremists.

April 23, 2010

EDITORIAL: Government micromanaging what people eat

Government mandates what types of cars we're permitted to drive, what types of light bulbs we can use and even what toi-

April 23, 2010

Culture Briefs

Devilish fine print

April 22, 2010

EDITORIAL: The left’s flair for solar

The Obama administration's use of tax incentives to spur purchase of energy-saving solar panels has drawn the attention of China's hungry manufacturing dragon, and the monster is now ravaging America's renewable-energy industry.

April 22, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s climate of fear

The purported science behind the global-warming fad is in full retreat these days, but word has yet to reach the White House. President Obama is determined to promote the alleged climate crisis as a lever for pushing through his big-government agenda. The O Force doesn't believe in wasting a crisis, even if it's a mirage.

April 22, 2010

EDITORIAL: A gasoline-fueled Earth Day

The green movement would be a lot funnier if it didn't have access to our pocketbooks. Unfortunately, devotees of "alternative energy" have harnessed the greatest of all sources of renewable power - government taxation - to fulfill their fantasies. The results are as tragic as they are comic.

April 22, 2010

FIELDS: Making war over history

Texas is big. Everybody knows that. Texans, who boast about their diversity and productivity, are usually big, too. Texas produces more beef and cotton than any other state. Texas has a lot of snakes and flowers, and producers of nearly everything everywhere are determined to make a market in Texas.

April 22, 2010

EDITORIAL: Liu beholden to foreign law

President Obama is trying to pack courts with far-left judges who are hiding their fringe opinions from the public and congressional oversight. Front and center is 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Goodwin Liu.

April 21, 2010

EDITORIAL: Setbacks for speed cameras

Proponents of traffic cameras in legislatures and city councils around the country share a fundamental flaw: They underestimate the people who put them in office. A fine example of this will be on display in Sykesville, Md., next month as the Carroll County town of 4,200 holds the region's first referendum on outlawing speed cameras.

April 21, 2010

EDITORIAL: Tinseltown civics lesson

Actress Janine Turner is best known for starring in the TV shows "Northern Exposure" and "Friday Night Lights."

April 21, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s jobless crisis

Forty-four percent of America's unemployed have been jobless for more than six months. That's the highest rate since the Great Depression. The previous high was 26 percent in June 1983. No matter what the White House says, an economic recovery has not arrived.

April 20, 2010