THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Learning from Canada’s mistakes

Before Americans adopt Canadian-style health care regulations, we might want to ask Canadian doctors what they think of their system.

August 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: Gee whiz, 367 miles per gallon!

General Motors announced with great fanfare last week that its new Chevy Volt will get 230 miles per gallon.

August 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: Listening to Islamists

The Obama administration is continuing its outreach efforts to radical groups.

August 20, 2009

EDITORIAL: Robert Novak, R.I.P.

Robert D. Novak died yesterday. He was one of the most consequential reporters and most compelling public voices of the past half-century. He is irreplaceable.

August 19, 2009

EDITORIAL: Incursion into Iran

The civil unrest in Iran is being directed by a secret cabal of intellectuals in the United States, or so the Islamic regime would like the world to believe.

August 19, 2009

EDITORIAL: The unkindest cuts of all

President Obama's sales pitch on health care needs serious surgery. The operation should begin, according to the American College of Surgeons, by excising some of the president's smears and falsehoods.

August 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: Talking smack about America

Our nation's top diplomat needs to learn that her job is to enhance the U.S. image abroad -- not muddy up America's reputation.

August 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obama misidentifies ‘rationing’

President Obama keeps lashing out against those trying to "scare" Americans about government rationing health care. In each of his town halls over the past week -- from New Hampshire to Montana to Colorado -- Mr. Obama repeatedly warned about his opponents using scare tactics. What's truly scary is the president's command of the facts.

August 18, 2009

EDITORIAL: Unfair government competition

According to President Obama, government health insurance will create competition in the health insurance industry. It simply would provide another alternative to existing plans offered by private companies, the argument goes. Like many Americans, we simply don't believe it. Whenever the government enters into a market, it will try to expand its share and take over the sector.

August 17, 2009

EDITORIAL: Criticized for our principles

When our editorials make front-page news in an out-of-town newspaper, we know we are doing our job.

August 17, 2009

EDITORIAL: Let him die in jail

Prison officials in the United Kingdom are considering whether to release 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who is serving a 27-year minimum term for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

August 17, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obama’s mad science adviser

When it comes to having past views that should frighten every American citizen, Ezekiel Emanuel (see above editorial) has nothing on the president's "chief science adviser," John P. Holdren. The combination of Mr. Holdren with Dr. Emanuel should make the public seriously concerned with this administration's moral compass concerning care for the old and weak.

August 16, 2009

EDITORIAL: A clunker of a subsidy

The government's "cash for clunkers" program is raising car prices and punishing consumers. It's time to hit the brakes on this clunker of a law. Instead, Congress is putting the pedal to the metal.

August 16, 2009

EDITORIAL: Health rationing by other names

When Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a key presidential health care adviser, told The Washington Times on Thursday that his "thinking has evolved" on the subject of health care rationing, he was making a distinction without a difference. Even his "evolved" ideas amount to nothing more than government rationing by another name.

August 16, 2009

EDITORIAL: Terror on the links

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has taken a swing at golf as the latest threat to revolutionary progress.

August 14, 2009

EDITORIAL: No more rhinestone cowboys

New regulations taking effect today make an awful new law even worse. Government is putting huge new burdens on retailers and manufacturers already reeling from a bad economy.

August 14, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s backroom deal

President Obama promised that all health care negotiations would be public. It hasn't worked out that way.

August 14, 2009

LETTER TO EDITOR: Go domestic with energy production

When Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred P. Hochberg defended his agency for helping the Brazilian oil company Petrobras secure U.S. taxpayer-backed loans to develop its offshore oil reserves, he failed to mention why the Obama administration (which he serves as a political appointee) is helping foreign governments develop their energy resources while opposing similar oil developments at home ("Ex-Im Bank is doing its job," Letter of the Day, Wednesday).

August 13, 2009

EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s tax hikes

Please check out page 203 of the main House version of health care reform. It contains all the evidence you need that the entire bill is a nasty bait-and-switch.

August 13, 2009

LETTER TO EDITOR: You dropped a population bomb on me

Cheryl Wetzstein's column missed the boat ("Conferees rebut population fears," Culture, Tuesday). Yes, birth rates have declined considerably in Western Europe -- but not so much in less developed countries.

August 13, 2009