THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: It’s the season of discarded politicians looking for work

It used to be, when you lose an election, you had a trio of options: You could slink off into obscurity. Nothing wrong with that. Many honorable losers leave town with a discreet slink. You could run for a lesser office. Or, you can try again for the office you were booted from. (Richard Nixon, the patron saint of losers, did a version of all three.) There's a fourth option, too, but it's usually regarded as the fate worse than death. You could go home and get a job. Published January 31, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Media bias out of control

Sadly, this nation has descended further into an era of dysfunctionality, as evidenced by the non-judicious application of a double standard and a runaway news media intent on churning divisiveness. Two recent events highlight these aberrations from the norms of a democracy. Published January 31, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Ended’ war bad news for U.S.

As if we needed another glaring reason to build the border wall, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — who has been in the back pocket of El Chapo's drug cartel since his failed presidential bid in 2006 — has declared the end of his country's drug war. "There is no war. Officially, there is no more war," he said this week. Published January 31, 2019

EDITORIAL: Voter fraud is no partisan fantasy but an inconvenient fact

The Democrats have tried to sell the notion that there's no such thing as voter fraud in America — that it's only an urban legend that thousands of people who have no business in a polling place have cast illicit ballots and altered outcomes of elections. Published January 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: GOP must unite

The Republican Party has long had a problem with messaging, whereas Democratic voters would goose-step to the support of legislation confirming infanticide. There is one area where the Republican Party agrees, however, and that is in the bias that is inherent in about 90 percent of the media, which is prejudiced in favor of the left. Published January 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Care for all’ means care for few

On the one hand, the political left is proposing health care for all. On the other, it's proposing doing away with private insurance. Not even considering the estimated 22 million illegal immigrants already not paying into the system but receiving care, this proposal will lead to less health care for all and rationing of services. Published January 30, 2019

EDITORIAL: North Korea appears to be playing a familiar bait-and-switch game

The status quo on the Korean peninsula, which had been frozen in place for decades — binding northeast Asia, including Japan and China, in an icy embrace — has begun to show signs of cracking. Published January 29, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Ocasio-Cortez totally ignorant

It is beyond my imagination that bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with absolutely no accomplishments to her credit, has become the face and voice of the Democratic Party. The newly elected Ocasio-Cortez flits about, spouting her seductive platitudes from the socialist playbook to anyone who will listen. She's become the darling of Twitter, obsequious, liberal mainstream TV networks and newspaper reporters. Published January 29, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Go after pharma but ignore illegals

Democrats want to increase their voter base no matter the cost to taxpayers, the harm to our citizens and national security, or the other high costs of the open borders they support. Democrats' border-control talking points (i.e. drones, more border agents) are the equivalent of having a stop sign on the border. They would do nothing to prevent illegals from entering. Published January 29, 2019

EDITORIAL: The shutdown revealed Democrats’ scheme to import a radical new electorate

It's not true that the government shutdown, concluded over the weekend after 35 days of shutdown, accomplished "nothing." President Trump did not score a policy victory on the issue that led to the shutdown. The continuing resolution that is to run for three weeks, as signed by the president, does not include a dime of funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. The Mexican standoff over the Mexican border wall did, however, accomplish something important. It revealed just how radical the Democrats have become on the issue of immigration. In the run-up to the 2020 election elections, they have been smoked out. That's not nothing. Published January 28, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What about Trump’s illegals?

Walls by themselves are very ineffective at keeping people in or out. Even that great fortified wall, the Maginot Line, was totally ineffectual at preventing the Germans from invading France. The Germans simply went around it, over it and under it. The Berlin Wall was somewhat effective, but that was only because there were armed sentries on it, shooting at those who tried to escape. Yet even that did not deter those East Germans intent on escaping to West Germany for a better life, like the illegal immigrants to the United States want. Published January 28, 2019

EDITORIAL: Swift U.S. recognition of the Guaido government was the right thing to do

Once upon a time and not so long ago Venezuela was the most prosperous nation in South America. When the late Hugo Chavez took over as maximum leader, he put it on the road to socialist hell. Under his successor, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela got there. Published January 27, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left would unwind founding fabric

The rapid rise of the authoritarian left in America — busily undermining free speech on college campuses, street bullying political opposition and fomenting class warfare — is intent on harnessing big government and wealth redistribution to coerce its socialist utopia, demonstrating that a free society is never more than one generation removed from tyranny. Published January 27, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Pelosi acting against the people

When discussing our president in her TV interviews, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi comes across as a functional illiterate with a vindictive streak a mile wide. Her supporters say she is a brilliant strategist, but all I see is a miserable, mean-spirited malcontent with contempt for the people of this country. Published January 27, 2019

EDITORIAL: A familiar urge emerges in the media assault on the Kentucky schoolboys

Justine Sacco was a public relations executive about to embark on a trip to South Africa back in the day of 2013. Before boarding her plane, Miss Sacco put up a lame joke to her 170 Twitter followers: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!" The joke was a clumsy attempt to lampoon the racial inequities of post-apartheid South Africa. She apparently confused AIDS, which has afflicted millions of whites, with Ebola epidemics, which have afflicted mostly blacks Africans. Published January 24, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Higher ed getting lower

I entered Antioch College in 1957 in the tiny village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, which had no stoplights, one flashing light at the railroad tracks, one greasy-spoon diner, one tavern, one pizza place and spartan dormitories. What Antioch did provide was an outstanding liberal arts education with an excellent faculty. It also prepared generations of graduates for professional and graduate schools. Published January 24, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Give Pelosi the boot

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has overextended her stay in public service on Capitol Hill, so it is understandable that she was on edge about garnering enough support to take the gavel for her current position up until the last minute. Regarding the State of the Union address, Mrs. Pelosi's manipulative, stubborn and contradictory behavior is reminiscent of that of a fractious child. Her reversal and revocation of the invitation for President Trump to give the historical State of the Union Address is shameful. The blame lies solely on her for a first in breaking a tradition in this country's history, particularly since Mr. Trump has decided not to speak at an alternative venue. Published January 24, 2019

EDITORIAL: Blocking national security invites permanent chaos on the border

President Trump's extended hand to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, in the form of concessions meant to reopen the government, has come back a bloody stub. If it wasn't clear already, there is little doubt now that the primary concern of "the loyal opposition" is neither ending the government shutdown nor solving the crisis at the nation's border. The Democrats want only to undermine the Trump presidency with an open-borders drive to take up a globalist weapon, a universal right to migrate. Published January 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Pelosi continuing shutdown

The House speaker's position on border walls being immoral is a front for the real agenda of Nancy Pelosi. It's her mission to proffer the false narrative that she is the president's equal. She is not. Published January 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Truth would expose waste

Why will no member of the liberal media explain to the people that the fight between the president and the Democrats over opening the government and building a wall to help protect American citizens is one-tenth of 1 percent of the budget? Published January 23, 2019