THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: What the latest jobs report portends

At the end of last week, the November jobs report was released, with news the economy regained 245,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped from 6.9% to 6.7%. This would seem like good news except economists had widely anticipated a much higher gain, and worry that the tick-down in unemployment can be attributed to people simply dropping out of the labor market.

December 7, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Koch employee deserved better

The global cultural stance against Blacks being treated unfairly by corporations, police and governments is part of an ongoing dialogue. In past months protests have riddled city streets across this nation, but I believe Guardian Glass (part of Koch Industries) may have been asleep at the social wheel.

December 7, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Solution to vote debate?

The debate has started again as to whether the Constitution should be amended in order to change the presidential election process. Some promote eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president, while others believe the Electoral College should remain unchanged.

December 7, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Economist Williams will be missed

America has suffered a great loss with the death of Walter E. Williams, one of the greatest economists of our era. Williams, along with Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, had a clear understanding of many aspects of liberal-government economic programs that are counterproductive.

December 7, 2020

EDITORIAL: The pandemic slowed human activity, but not Mother Nature’s

Thinkers of lofty thoughts have high hopes for a "Great Reset," a wholesale reordering of society in order to achieve "fairer outcomes." Conveniently, the COVID-19 pandemic has ripened the moment for the envisioned transformation. Integral to the process, according to reset advocates, is a switcheroo from a consumption economic model to a sustainably "green" one, with the added benefit of saving the planet from global warming. The only problem is it's not working.

December 6, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Self-control a cornerstone of society

For the past half-century academic figures possessing glib tongues and myopic minds have advised credulous children that restrained behavior is repressive and acting against one's impulse yields unprofitable frustration. This childish notion is a reflection of shallow thinking and blind ignorance, not superior intellect.

December 6, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: China’s government must pay

It is clear that COVID-19 came out of Wuhan, China. What is unclear is when the People's Republic of China knew the virus was in humans and where, specifically, the virus came from.

December 6, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: More personal responsibility

With all the problems people are having with each other in this country, here's a possible solution. Everyone must assume responsible for their own actions, no matter what, with no excuses or justifications. We will then each be defined by our own behavior and nothing else.

December 6, 2020

EDITORIAL: Legacy media’s China failure

CNN on Monday published a report made possible by troves of internal documents provided by a Chinese health care whistleblower proving that the CCP published misleading data on the coronavirus, downplaying caseload and death count. What's amazing about this revelation is not that President Xi Jinping countenanced lying to the world, but that CNN published the expose in the first place.

December 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: BLM taking advantage of suffering

Your article about local Black Lives Matter chapters demanding to know the whereabouts of the millions of dollars in donations received over the past summer reminds me of the famous speech by Malcolm X during the 1950s ("Chapters revolt against Black Lives Matter," Page 1, Dec. 3). He was reminding Black Americans how easily we are manipulated by outside groups that serve no purpose in improving the quality of our lives. He used words and phrases such as hoodwinked, lead astray and bamboozled. The only difference in 2020 is that instead of White America being the source, it's the African-Americans who created Black Lives Matter.

December 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Thanks for nothing, Barr

The four years of Donald Trump's presidency have amounted to the saga of a man who did everything possible to keep his promises but was never able to deliver through his Justice Department the satisfaction of justice yearned for by the people of this nation. In the end, Attorney General William Barr failed both the people of this country and the president by not delivering indictments from the work being done by special investigator John Durham. Mr. Barr then undermined the legal effort to determine whether there was election fraud. In the end, Mr. Barr was nothing more than a deep-state antagonist to the Trump administration.

December 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Vote fraud bad for all parties

For the sake of not disenfranchising millions of Americans and not turning into a third-world banana republic, all alleged cases of vote fraud should be taken seriously, investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law where wrongdoing is found ("AG Barr: No evidence of fraud that would change election outcome," Web, Dec. 1). It should not be casually dismissed, as Attorney General William Barr has done.

December 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Media conspiring with left on election

Frustration is such a pathetically inadequate word to describe how I and tens of millions of other Americans feel about the 2020 presidential election. A political party is in the process of successfully cheating its way into the presidency, and that cheating is being done in full view and with the complete support of the mainstream media and cowardly elected legislators and state and federal judges.

December 2, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Get to the bottom of fraud claims

Joe Biden could take a critical first step to reuniting "We the People" by supporting efforts to prove definitively whether voter fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election. Absent such a move, Mr. Biden will remain part of the problem that divides and polarizes the United States of America. We are the oldest extant government on Earth and the most powerful and wealthiest in history. We deserve better.

December 2, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Missing ballots matter

A truck driver has testified at an open hearing that his trailer, number 10R1440 — which he dropped of in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, outside his normal delivery route of unloading first in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after arriving from Beth Page, New York — is now missing ("Witnesses tell Michigan Senate panel of widespread voter fraud in Detroit," Web, Dec. 1). Inside the trailer were between 144,000 and 288,000 completed mail-in ballots.

December 2, 2020

EDITORIAL: Responding to the pandemic, Joe Biden must not just mail it in

Joe Biden's Election Day ace card was pinning responsibility for America's devastating COVID-19 death count on Donald Trump. The ruination wrought by the virus here, though, was the result of the cause over there, in China. The United States ought not to allow responsibility for this man-made disaster to simply recede in the rear-view mirror of history. A President Biden must make certain that it doesn't — by holding China accountable for its role in the calamity. A signature "C'mon, man" or two won't do.

December 2, 2020

EDITORIAL: In 2021, America’s concerns must turn outward

Understandably, with COVID-19 raging, America — and the world — has turned its attention inward. But, as evidenced by the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, the business of international relations has not paused. With escalating international tensions, America must continue to lead — both in arms and moral fortitude.

December 1, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Roberts a disappointment to right

Michael McKenna writes in his column, "A new, better Supreme Court makes its debut in New York pandemic case" (Web, Nov. 28), that the court's vote should have been 9-0, but was 5-4. I agree with Mr. McKenna's assertion that the vote should have been 9-0.

December 1, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Coins could carry virus

When the coronavirus was first detected, news reports said that it could survive on metal for up to fours hours. Knowing this, a thought came to mind about coins given as change when we shop. Who's to say that this isn't part of the reason that the pandemic is spreading like wildfire?

December 1, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Remember Alien and Sedition Acts

While Cheryl K. Chumley does an admirable job of explaining the purpose and importance of the Tenth Amendment, she nevertheless errs badly in relying on the legacy of John Adams to vindicate opposition to domestic political tyranny ("Tyrannical governors are giving the Tenth Amendment a bad name," Web, Nov. 28). Adams is certainly a heroic historical figure, but as president he committed egregious abuses of executive authority. More specifically, he signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law, making him guilty of precisely the same tyranny Ms. Chumley attributes to the governors she so thoroughly excoriates.

December 1, 2020