THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Justice can’t be based on lies

There have been attempts at so-called dialogue about race in America. But if that dialogue starts with unspoken inequality, its results will not help race relations, but instead will cause them to increase. When the dialogue starts with the premises that all white people are racists and all black Americans are innocent subjects of their racism, it is a lie. When the government's idea of equal justice is that all black Americans are committing crimes because they are poor, so let's cut them a lot of slack, that is not equal justice. When a black American robs a white grocer and shoots at him to kill, then gets off in court with a slap on the wrist while the grocer lives with the debilitating results of a heart attack from being shot at, that is not equal justice.

June 4, 2020

EDITORIAL: The Russia collusion hoax was built on thin air

The political winds have shifted in Washington. The law enforcers who abused their badges to launch a political inquisition targeting Donald Trump are themselves now exposed to the furies they unleashed. It's poetic justice -- without the poetry. The process may be painful, but the nation is less likely to suffer a coup redo if the instigators have their cover-up blown.

June 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Real action needed

We are now more than a week past the inexcusable killing of George Floyd. Since that time, we have experienced daily riots (called protests by much of the media) and the establishment of ineffective curfews. We have watched rocks and bricks get hurled at our law-enforcement personnel. And we have seen the stores of law-abiding owners broken into and looted.

June 3, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Violence is not ‘peaceful protest’

Our collective hearts broke when we witnessed the tragic death of George Floyd. People across the United States, from President Trump to the average citizen, expressed horror at what occurred and called for justice. For a moment, we all threw away our differences and became united in outrage and indignation. Surely the moment for change had arrived.

June 3, 2020

EDITORIAL: SpaceX offers soaring hope in troubling times

On Sunday, as the hour approached midnight, and right around the time the destruction and looting of Washington reached a pitch that would find the historic 200-year-old St. John's Episcopal Church (among many other places throughout the United States) across from the White House desecrated and set fire, American Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were docking with the International Space Station.

June 2, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What ‘annexation’?

Here we go again with the use of that pejorative word, annexation ("Israel: Politics, prosecution and annexation," Web, May 30). Jed Babbin uses this word repeatedly, ignoring history and continuous attempts to get the facts straight. How can a nation "annex" its own land when it was taken away from them through war and subsequently regained?

June 2, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Destruction from within

Why are our cities crumbling just at the point they are supposed to be reopening? Our best efforts at home, school, work and in the public square have produced several generations of "youth" who are brash, bored, self-centered, poorly educated, constantly entertained, inexperienced, recently unemployed and largely disheartened with what little they know about rule of law.

June 2, 2020

EDITORIAL: Street violence trashes the quest for justice

The mask is off. Followers of the political left indoctrinated to believe America was conceived in oppression have dropped their pretense of crusading to create a more perfect union. Always on the scout for a means with which to dismantle America, they have opted for the most direct ploy yet: Light the match of racial strife and burn it down. They won't succeed, though, because hundreds of millions of citizens see through the charade and won't stand for their malice.

June 1, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bowser off-base

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser deserves kudos for her handling of the issues involving COVID-19 in her city. However, her recent remarks about President Trump were way off-base ("Bowser slams 'gross' Trump remarks about D.C. protests," Web, May 30).

June 1, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Numerous COVID-19 mistakes

COVID-19 has won its battle with America by forfeiture. Our leaders put us in the hands of so-called experts whose opinions have trampled on our rights and done unnecessary and unprecedented damage to our country. We thought these experts' opinions were based on hard scientific evidence, but they were guessing based on models generated by inadequate data. They should be disciplined and the politicians who heeded them dealt with accordingly come November.

June 1, 2020

EDITORIAL: Battle between Twitter, Silicon Valley and the Trump administration heats up

Last week, for the first time in the history of the social media platform, Twitter added a fact-checking warning label to two of President Trump's tweets regarding mail-in voting and fraud. Twitter's link at the bottom of the president's posts were meant to signal to the public that the information sent out was, by their lights, factually inaccurate.

May 31, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What else happened?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I have my own about Fox News' Chris Wallace, who recently asserted that the riots in Minneapolis are as bad as various other riots, including the Vietnam War. I was wounded five times in combat as a Marine fighting for our country in Vietnam -- and that's not at all comparable to someone who may have broken the law.

May 31, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No party’s ‘chump’

Malcolm X warned African-Americans of being political chumps of the Democratic Party ("Joe Biden's 'you ain't black' comment: The scourge of the left's identity politics," Web, May 28). "Political chumps" are a bloc of voters who overwhelmingly vote for one party blindly. African-Americans are now waking up, and even if they're Democrats they want a "black" agenda -- or else they will vote for Republicans, the Green Party or the Libertarians, or won't vote at all.

May 31, 2020

EDITORIAL: It is time to end the political prosecution of Michael Flynn

The Trump-Russia collusion ruse has been unraveled, proven false and buried in the annals of dirty politics, except for one dangling strand -- the relentless persecution of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn that masquerades as legitimate prosecution. Knowing that a nation can't long endure without respect for justice, judges with the authority to intervene should gavel the case to a close.

May 28, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: China owes victims’ families

Communist China has a history of experimenting with contagious viruses. In 2013 scientists at the Harbin China Veterinary Research Institute produced a new virus by combining the HSN1 bird flu with a 2009 H1N1 flu virus, and the resultant virus was highly contagious among humans. In 2019 the COVID-19 virus most likely came from the Chinese Virology Laboratory in Wuhan, China, which was experimenting with COVID-19 bats.

May 28, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biden bad for Israel

All those worried about the future of the Jewish state should be concerned about the possible election of Joe Biden. Both Mr. Biden's present and past actions have been harmful toward Israel. First, his call for a U.S.-Arab consulate in Jerusalem brings into question the reunification of that capital of Israel, reversing the decision by President Trump. Mr. Trump has supported the move of the U.S. embassy and has declared Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.

May 28, 2020

EDITORIAL: Mailed-in votes often wind up missing in action

The coronavirus has been a killer of the conventional. Even as health dangers diminish, pressure is building for a radical shift in long-standing custom for the way the nation elects its leaders. Vote-by-mail may be a common-sense method of avoiding the risk of infection amid busy polling stations for the most vulnerable, but staking the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on postal proficiency is reckless.

May 27, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biden can keep his ‘repairs’

During a campaign stop in St. Louis before the coronavirus mercifully put him in lockdown, presumptive Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden bragged, "I've met every major foreign leader; I would repair our alliances" ("Joe Biden -- the perverted Magic Eight Ball that is always wrong," Web, May 25).

May 27, 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Change testing strategy

The number of COVID-19 cases has generally been declining for the past month. We have peaked, but that does not indicate that we can stop testing. Everywhere, experts continue to emphasize the need for more testing -- but what many of them miss is where we need to concentrate our testing.

May 27, 2020

EDITORIAL: Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for sex-change operations for prison inmates

Aside from the prospect of getting to choose a replacement for octogenarian liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, furthering a much-needed makeover of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals might well be the single most compelling reason to reelect President Trump in November.

May 26, 2020