THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Police need control tools that are not hit or miss

Perilous confrontations that result in police fatally shooting a civilian can only be described as tragic. The death of Breonna Taylor is once again in the news. Cases in which Black men were shot triggered social unrest this summer, with the rippling effect of widespread violence only adding to the heartbreak.

September 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: All know abortion is murder

When a woman has a miscarriage, it is a sad event. She tells family and friends, "I lost my baby. People are kind and sympathetic. When a pregnant woman is injured in an accident and the doctors can only save her life, they say, "We saved her life, but even though we tried as hard as we could, we could not save the child." We are saddened when we hear of such events.

September 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Give Pelosi the boot, now

I can't think of more self-absorbed, vile narcissists and pathological liars than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her loathsome cohorts. Mrs. Pelosi and her gangster partners have been working against the president and the American people since President Trump took office. Mrs. Pelosi blocked the bill to help the American people survive the pandemic. Now she has the unmitigated gall to try to coerce the president with the threat of another impeachment. Why have the Republicans not filed charges against her and her co-conspirators for violating their oaths of office?

September 24, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump still president

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is at it again. Inspired by her House boys, she threatens another impeachment process of the president upon his Supreme Court justice nomination ("Pelosi doesn't rule out impeachment to delay Trump's Supreme Court pick," Web, Sept. 20. Firstly the 2019 impeachment was a joke. Round two would be an utter circus.

September 23, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No mention of diabetes, virus-deaths link

U.S. deaths from COVID-19 have surpassed 200,000, but 90% of those deaths involved comorbidities. In fact, the reporting criteria have been so corrupted that apparently in some places (e.g., the U.K.) if you had a car accident and died but were found positive in a PCR test for COVID-19 antigens, it went down as a COVID-19 death.

September 23, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Israel-Syria peace unlikely

Abraham Wagner urges the Trump administration to seek a treaty between Israel and Syria ("Next steps in the Middle East after historic Abraham Accords peace agreement," Web, Sept. 21). He claims that "Israel and Syria were close to a real peace agreement before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war" in 2011.

September 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: President Trump should make a Supreme Court pick

As we all now know, there is a Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg whose casket, as of this writing, is reposing in the Supreme Court. Former clerks, friends, and soon the president of the United States, will pay their respects. Next week Justice Ginsburg will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. By that time Mr. Trump will have announced his nominee for her replacement.

September 23, 2020

EDITORIAL: Time to take a closer look at AARP

For years, progressive politicians and groups have tried to prove the more effective conservative groups are just fronts for monied interests and corporate America. They've alleged time and again, without proof that the National Rifle Association the nation's largest mass membership civil rights group is merely a tool of the firearms industry. Or that certain research and advocacy groups that question climate change at any level are beholden to the oil companies and are doing their bidding in exchange for contributions.

September 22, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Ginsburg didn’t belong on court

The announcement that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died was very unfortunate news. However, I do not ascribe to the theory that she was a stalwart defender of U.S. constitutional law and a "judicial icon." In fact, I believe there is ample evidence she was an enemy of the U.S. Constitution who never should have accepted her appointment to the court, and who thereafter should have been impeached.

September 22, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Poor management to blame

Mayors and governors are blaming climate change for the massive wild fires throughout the West. It is insulting and clueless to propose new climate laws and regulations while fires are raging, thousands have been evacuated, hundreds have lost their homes and businesses, and too many souls have lost their lives.

September 22, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fill vacancy with conservative

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid famously said, after being questioned regarding having lied about Mitt Romney paying taxes, "Romney didn't win, did he?" Now President Trump has a chance to fill another Supreme Court seat and the Democrats are calling foul.

September 22, 2020

EDITORIAL: If Americans don’t spruce up their forests, Mother Nature will

Forests afire as far as the eye can see have become a common, heartbreaking occurrence in the American West when summer fades into autumn. The devastation hits hardest those residents who must breathe in smoke for months on end and, sometimes, face fleeing the infernos. Some are quick to blame the flames on human-caused climate change, but the destruction will persist without recognition of human-caused failure to manage the wilderness environment.

September 21, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Parliament, not George, taxed us

I was impressed by Judge Napolitano's piece on James Madison and the Constitution ("Governor's authoritarian orders during pandemic ruled unconstitutional," Web, Sept. 16). In this case, however, Mr. Napolitano makes a serious error. He writes that the American Revolution was about "the British king because he taxed without representation " This is simply inaccurate and I would guess that Mr. Napolitano, upon reflection, would agree.

September 21, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left runs roughshod over laws

Democrats want power, will do anything to get it and will abuse it once they have it. President Trump was targeted when he was a candidate, and then the cabal began.

September 21, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Election should focus on pandemic

As always, the rhetorical ability to set the agenda in the waning days of the presidential campaign will determine the outcome of the 2020 election. Yes, whether the president and Republicans try to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg before January is a serious issue, full of intrigue and speculation by political pundits and the media. Former President Clinton and others perceive this move as a power grab. It also exposes the hypocrisy of Republicans who set a clear precedent in 2016 by insisting that a Supreme Court selection should wait until the next president was selected by voters.

September 21, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left no friend to Jewish voters

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal, and many take great pride in supporting political positions that are often inimical to their interests as Jews, both at home and in Israel. It is as though they believe sticking pins into effigies of themselves will win principled friends among those liberals who disdain their friendship.

September 20, 2020

EDITORIAL: The ugliness of Netflix’ ‘Cuties’

In a Sept. 16 op-ed in The Washington Post, Maimouna Doucoure stoutly defended her controversial film "Cuties," which debuted a week earlier on Netflix. It has come under deserved fire for its hyper-sexualized depiction of prepubescent 10- and 11-year-old girls. You read that right: Her film. "Cuties" — which surely will qualify as "must-see TV" for pedophiles everywhere — demonstrates that women can be perverts, too. But the larger problem with the enterprise is what it says about the state of America's culture.

September 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Heed Taiwan on COVID-19

Due to the worldwide impact of COVID-19, the general debate of the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly is scheduled to convene virtually Sept. 22-26, and on Sept. 29. Now more than ever the high-level session should seriously consider Taiwan's success story in the pandemic and how Taiwan's international role may be played out more broadly in critical areas of worldwide coronavirus response.

September 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Washington Mohawks?

Since it seems certain there has been no objection to "Seminoles," "Braves" or "Indians" as team names, why not call the Washington Football Team "the Mohawks" after the Mohawk tribe, which was indigenous to the East Coast? Alternatively, the team could be named after another East Coast tribe. That way the former Redskins could retain their logo and some of their traditions.

September 20, 2020

EDITORIAL: For Luis Moreno Jr., principle is more important than profit

The corporate world of professional sports is a sad place these days. And perhaps it has always been so, but now the public is better attuned to the hypocrisy with which decisions are made. The National Basketball Association and Nike, for instance, are happy to provide a platform for the ugliest critiques of America, while happily ignoring the genocide their financial overlords, the Chinese, currently carry out on the Uyghur population.

September 17, 2020