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Articles by THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Obama the party crasher

Barack Obama is not used to being the guy not invited to a party. At the Copenhagen global warming conference, however, he found that not everyone wanted to hang with him. Our president can't take a hint.

December 23, 2009

EDITORIAL: Kneecapping financial bosses

President Obama knows how to stage a show. On Dec. 14, he trotted out 10 CEOs of America's largest financial institutions and watched the executives disown the actions of their lobbyists who had been working to defeat the president's massive regulatory takeover of the financial industry. The scene smelled fishier than research at last week's climate change conference in Denmark.

December 23, 2009

America’s Morning News

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show, "America's Morning News" -- heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network -- here's what three of Monday's guests told host John McCaslin:

December 22, 2009

EDITORIAL: Judicial hellholes

A new report on "Judicial Hellholes" arrives just in time, albeit indirectly, to remind Congress that no health-system changes can qualify as real "reform" if they don't include serious lawsuit reforms as well.

December 22, 2009

EDITORIAL: Not going postal

Last-minute shoppers, beware. If you are running behind in mailing Christmas gifts to loved ones, and you absolutely, positively need your packages to arrive on time, it's safest to avoid the post office. The U.S. Postal Service is so slow that even a fruit cake could decompose before making it to its intended recipient.

December 22, 2009

EDITORIAL: What is Obama smoking?

Apparently, the debate over the economy is over, and it's settled science that government spending stimulates growth. At least that's what President Obama wants you to believe. On CBS' "60 Minutes" on Dec. 13, he boasted, "What we now know, and every economist who's looked at it will acknowledge this, is that [the stimulus] helped us [stem] the panic and get the economy growing again." Mr. Obama's exaggerations are starting to sound a lot like Al Gore's claimed "consensus" about global warming - a formerly hot topic that has cooled down recently.

December 21, 2009

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: FYI

The D.C. schools chief and the mayor of Sacramento have more in common than being engaged to each other.

December 21, 2009

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Teen’s death tied to ‘sexting’

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." That idiom is being cast aside as more and more youths use their cell phones and the Internet to cast aspersions. The consequences can be a life-and-death matter.

December 21, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obama’s failing grades

President Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he deserves a "solid B-plus" for his accomplishments as president so far, and that if health care reform passes, that would raise his grade to an A-minus. This is bold talk from a man who has made history by achieving the lowest approval rating of any modern president at this point in his presidency. But if you like a government-run economy, astronomical deficits and a weakened America, you may well give Mr. Obama high marks.

December 21, 2009

EDITORIAL: Carbon class warfare

The United States was bashed a lot over the last two weeks at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. But those who believe in man-made global warming should have some praise for the Land of the Free because Americans are comparatively clean.

December 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: The green dictatorship

Last week's Copenhagen summit surrendered all pretense to significance when it turned into a showcase for dictators' attempts to greenwash their bloody regimes. Granting the spotlight to the tyrannical trio of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez so they could express their profound concern for Mother Earth is like asking former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his prostitute Ashley Dupre to propound upon the state of marriage.

December 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obama’s cold day in Denmark

Copenhagen was a cold town last week for the global-warming crowd. The expected reorganization of the world economy to fit the green template vanished amid blizzard conditions in a country that has had just seven white Christmases in the past century. God certainly has a sense of humor.

December 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: Terrorism Service Administration

On too many days, it is easy to forget that the T and the S in TSA stand for "Transportation Security." More to the point would be "Totally Squandered" credibility, "Terminally Sloppy" screening and - most recently - "Transparent Secrets."

December 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: No mandate for government health care

Some say it's unconscionable. Others say it's unconstitutional. Either way, it's clearly unpopular. For any smart senator, it ought to be reason enough not to advance the unwieldy and unworkable health care bill being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

December 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: Congressional autos

Just as critics feared, President Obama and congressional Democrats are using the auto industry bailout to micromanage the supposed beneficiaries straight into the ground. Mr. Obama is poised to bring the reorganization of General Motors Corp. and the Chrysler Group to a standstill so a federal arbitrator can approve each decision to close a local auto dealership.

December 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: Crazy for jihad

Jihadists take note: The insanity defense may not work for you. On Tuesday, Naveed Haq, a self-styled soldier of Islam, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder and seven other counts related to a 2006 shooting rampage in Seattle. The prosecution successfully argued that Haq was a jihadi terrorist on a mission for martyrdom; the defense said that just proved he was crazy.

December 17, 2009

EDITORIAL: Walpin-gate may snag Mrs. Obama

No inspector general can unearth corruption without access to his office, computer or staff. An "administrative leave" putting an IG in that position has the same effect, for all intents and purposes, as an immediate firing. That's the basic logic behind former Inspector General Gerald Walpin's lawsuit demanding at least temporary reinstatement to his job as watchdog at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). New revelations about the case from two lawmakers indicate that there is good reason to suspect duplicity from those who helped force Mr. Walpin's overnight removal in June.

December 17, 2009