THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: ‘Too Much and Never Enough’ by Mary Trump is a dud, not a ‘bombshell’

The mainstream media has characterized the book as a "bombshell," but it's more like "revenge porn" (minus the compromising photos) from a malcontent with grudges, familial and political, to settle.

July 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biden couldn’t do Trump’s job

Vitriol against the president and his 'demeanor' fits exactly the mold of radicals, rioters, looters, anarchists and cowardly Black Lives Matter hyenas now nightly assaulting American values and rule of law in U.S. cities. Mayors and governors in Oregon and other states have abandoned their oaths of office to support (in fact, they even encourage) these acts of sedition by so-called "protesters." In contrast, by upholding the oath of office every president takes, President Trump has acted decisively and well within his authority to send federal troops to cities of mayhem to protect federal property, law-abiding private citizens and private property from mobs brazened and cheered on by the nonfeasance of their elected officials.

July 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: To BLM, some Black lives matter

The "cancel culture" is getting out of hand. Some folks insist on getting rid of anything that offends them, with no concern about what might offend others. Who can dispute that Black lives matter? Who can dispute that all lives matter? But what about the organization, Black Lives Matter? Go to its website. Its origins are based partly on two falsehoods: first, that killers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were not acting legally in self-defense.

July 20, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Presidents need right demeanor

President Trump has shown how fragile our democracy is when we have a president who abuses his power and threatens the Constitution of the United States. During protests in June, Mr. Trump wanted to deploy 10,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division and other units to Washington to squelch the protests. The rational thinking and recommendations of Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Attorney General William Barr avoided the deployment.

July 19, 2020

EDITORIAL: It’s time to step up privatization efforts

Where Mr. Trump has failed to lead, and this comes as something of a surprise, has been in privatization.

July 19, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Don’t mess with Israel

Does Peter Beinart really expect Zionists to throw in the towel ("Peter Beinart's one-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians," Web, July 14)? Does he expect them to accept a binational state in which Jews would soon be in a minority status?

July 19, 2020

EDITORIAL: Tracking the coronavirus curve

Every form of sickness means suffering, but Americans should keep their eye on the ball and recognize that COVID-19 is losing its deadly grip. It is past time to step up to the plate and, with proper protection, let it rip.

July 16, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Death penalty for cop killers

I've written to my elected officials and put my suggestion in the newspapers but no one is stepping up to support my contention: There should be a federal law with an automatic death penalty for anyone who kills a law-enforcement officer, whether the officer was at the state, local or federal level.

July 16, 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bad precedent set by tax ruling

The Supreme Court ruling regarding President Trump's personal records, including tax returns, was to send the matter back to lower courts. This means the information will not likely be available until after the November election. However, also it means that local prosecutors — and there are many of them — will find it easier to request the records of future presidents, too.

July 16, 2020

EDITORIAL: What the Harper’s letter reveals about its signatories

American public intellectuals, those self-appointed arbiters of good taste and morality, are not exactly an honest collection of people. By and large, they reverse their positions depending on the winds of public opinion, always making sure to be on the correct side of fashionable debate. When they are not playing the grifter, they are attempting to set the terms of American civility by hectoring the public on their version of right and wrong, true and false, noble and ignoble. To observe these phenomena, read a New York Times editorial any day of the week.

July 15, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Planned Parenthood should pay

The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives to establish a commission to study the idea of reparations for slavery ("Sheila Jackson Lee says reparations bill will get a floor vote," Web, July 1). To try to make the general population pay reparations for slavery would meet immense opposition and would not help Black people, who are enduring the effects of systematic racism through poverty, broken families, poor education and crime.

July 15, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Immunity development a must

If you think you are going to avoid the coronavirus by locking down and hiding under your bed, think again. The initial response of "flattening the curve" so that we would not exceed hospital intensive-care-unity capacity might have been a good idea — until we learned that ICU capacity is always maxed out because that is the way a hospital operates. There really is no excess capacity because of the huge associated revenue losses.

July 15, 2020

Maryam Rajavi, National Council of Resistance of Iran acting president, seeks to replace regime

Maryam Rajavi, acting president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the world's largest Iranian dissident organization, which seeks to replace Iran's theocratic regime with a democracy, provided the following exclusive answers to questions from The Washington Times.

July 15, 2020

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden cribs from Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump

Joe Biden's legacy may be still in the making, but he is already known for one thing: borrowing liberally from the work product of others. Building on his well-earned reputation, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president has delivered an economic blueprint he hopes will help him capture the White House in November. If the Biden plan has a familiar ring, it's because it bums ideas off the Bernie Sanders economic prescription. And even though it also takes a page from the Trump playbook, rather than revitalizing America, it would likely "make socialism great again."

July 14, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Allowing BLM signs a bad move

The Office of Special Counsel has announced that Black Lives Matter signs and other paraphernalia do not violate the Hatch Act, which bans political activities and fundraising in the federal workplace ("Federal employees can support Black Lives Matter on the job, Office of Special Counsel rules," Web, July 13). Part of the rationale is that the OSC had the same view regarding the tea party movement. I retired from the federal government in 2019 and do not recall ever seeing anything supporting the tea party at work. Part of my job was inspecting my civilian agency's subdivisions for Hatch Act compliance.

July 14, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Name change shows weakness

The absurdity of the completely inflated and illusory furor over the Washington Redskins' name was brought home to me during a recent interview with a team supporter on ITV News here in the U.K. ("After 87 years, Redskins retired," Page 1, July 14). The fan was full of praise for the erasure of the Redskins, but when the interviewer asked what the team should be called instead he seemed utterly flummoxed, flailing around helplessly before coming up lamely with "Uh ... Warriors." You could tell he knew himself it was a blandly generic and insipid title shared by a thousand other middle-school touch-football teams. It was not one to fire you up for winning the Super Bowl.

July 14, 2020

EDITORIAL: All schools should be mandated by governors to prepare to open

The coronavirus lockdown has prevented the nation's children from enjoying many of the typical joys of summer. Fear of letting the virus spread has shuttered summer camps, closed beaches and other amusements, limited access to community pools and parks, and left teenagers jobless, idle and liable to get into mischief.

July 13, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Order will return

The vast majority of Americans do not approve of the violent protests by Black Lives Matter, Antifa and various other wannabe-socialist thugs who have been disrupting society. Americans react slowly. Over time they will face up and curtail this violent movement and the destruction, looting and murder that have accompanied it. Our society strongly desires law and order on the streets of its cities. Before long civility will be restored and the disruptive elements which have been haunting us will be driven away.

July 13, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biden would wreak havoc

Democrats desperately need Joe Biden to win the presidency so they can use the 25th Amendment to displace him with a radical-left vice president. Depending on the circumstances surrounding Biden's vacating the presidency, the vice president will either be an acting president or a successor president. If advanced to the presidency as a successor, assuming that Biden dies or resigns, the new president will almost certainly nominate another radical leftist for confirmation as vice president.

July 13, 2020

EDITORIAL: Free expression is not a trend to be trashed

If a hundred free thinkers are bold enough to condemn the new cancel-culture orthodoxy, hundreds of millions can turn the tide and preserve the practice of respectful debate.

July 12, 2020