THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Why the silence in Maryland?

I find it very interesting that no Democrat running for state office or any of our Democratic senators or representatives has called for an investigation into the sexual-abuse allegations made against our Maryland state senators and legislators. Published October 11, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kavanaugh a hero

There are two kinds of heroes: The ones who run toward the storm, and the ones defined by the storm. Nether is diminished by the other. But those defined by the storm, those unassuming, nameless, faceless people who seem ill-prepared to face the rising tide, have a special place in the fabric of our nation. As Brett Kavanagh and his family prepared for the highlight of his career, little did he know he would soon be in a fight — not only to uphold the very foundation of our judicial system, the presumption of innocence, but also to slay the #MeToo dragon. Published October 10, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Hillary now grasping at straws

Hillary Clinton is a joke who's transcending into a truly historic Shakespearean tragedy right before our eyes ("Hillary Clinton: 'Civility can start again' when Democrats retake Congress," Web, Oct. 2). In her most recent statement, she claims that her wonderful and compassionate Democratic Party "cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about" and that "only the Democrats winning back the House and/or Senate that civility can start again." Published October 10, 2018

EDITORIAL: The Clintons on a trip to the good old days

Americans who can't get enough of the Clintons are in luck. Bubba and the former first lady of the United States will soon embark on a tour of 13 cities to talk about their good old days. They will interview each other, and a ticket to "An Evening with President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton" is a steal at $432 each. Tickets are still available. Something in the cheap seats goes for a mere $59. Published October 10, 2018

EDITORIAL: Trump has been good for business at the newspapers and networks

After the Kavanaugh frenzy, the nation's newsrooms have taken on a deathly quiet, the stillness upon the land that follows a late-summer tornado. What's an ink-stained wretch to do now that Brett Kavanaugh is sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court? The new justice is attended by the ladies of his clerk pool, and Page One is up for grabs again. Published October 9, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: History will be kind to Kavanaugh

Justice Clarence Thomas called the sexual harassment accusations against him "a high-tech lynching" designed to keep a conservative black judge off the U.S. Supreme Court. After considerable deliberation, the Senate approved his appointment. Many people said his reputation was ruined. I disagree completely. In my opinion, Justice Thomas is among the greatest African-Americans of the 20th century. Published October 9, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: McCarthy parallels not accurate

In your recent editorial "Accusation is still not evidence" (Web, Oct. 8) you casually toss out the standard references to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, drawing a comparison between McCarthy's tactics and those of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers. Such references to McCarthy are easy to make given the conventional wisdom on his activities, but they are also mistaken. Published October 9, 2018

EDITORIAL: Senate came through with a victory over noise, hysteria

A great battle was won, but the struggle continues. Years will pass before the full implications of the nomination and confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court will play out, and perhaps more years will follow after that before the implications are clearly understood. Published October 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fields op-ed spot-on

I am an avid reader of op-eds and editorials, especially those found in the Drudge Report and The Wall Street Journal. Recently I read Suzanne Fields' op-ed drawing parallels between today's circus and the Arthur Miller play "The Crucible" ("Kavanaugh in the crucible," Web, Oct. 3). It was one of the finest and most perceptive writings I have read in a long time. I congratulate Suzanne Fields on her excellent writing. In a sense, the mob thinking that was the theme of "The Crucible" has invaded American university and college campuses as well. Mob thinking wasn't present when I attended college half a century ago. Published October 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Will GOP hold on in November?

Only three times in the history of American politics has an incumbent president's party won at the midterm elections: In 1934, 1998 and 2002. And on those three occasions something big always happened. Published October 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Legal doesn’t mean moral

The left has been attacking President Trump as a Nazi because he wants to deport illegal aliens, especially violent criminals like MS-13 gang members, back to their country of origin. But who are the real Nazis? It's the Democrats, who have extinguished 60 million lives via abortion. Published October 8, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Media not judge and jury

America is in serious trouble. We have reached a point in our history where the future of our nation is in jeopardy. Published October 8, 2018

EDITORIAL: The new, improved NAFTA

Nearly two years after Donald Trump was elected president with promises to rework America's relationship with its trading partners, and less than two months after he agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico, the president succeeded in bringing Canada on board a new trilateral North American trade arrangement. Published October 8, 2018

EDITORIAL: Americans need a substitute for what they think they know but don’t

History is bunk, Henry Ford famously said, and it's certainly true that there's a lot to debunk. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation set out to find out how much Americans actually know about the history of their country, and how its institutions work, and learned that as many as a third of us don't know very much. Published October 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Constitution targeted

Judge Brett Kavanaugh is not the real issue. The liberals and "progressives" are really attacking the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law (including the presumption of innocence and due process) and civil society. Published October 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Leftists are true fascists

We often hear how the right is fascist. Maybe that is backward. The left clearly considers Judge Brett Kavanaugh guilty based solely on the allegations against him. "Guilty until proven innocent" sounds more like the legal proceedings of Fascist Germany or Italy than a democratic republic. Published October 4, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Teen antics pale in comparison

Beer drinking at 17 — that's the final low bar set by the Democrats in their judgment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Set that charge next to any in the hall of fame of mature heroes from the Democratic Party: Joseph Biden's 1988 plagiarism of the British Labor Party politician Neil Kinnock's speech, the 1991 finding by Boston University of Martin Luther King Jr.'s plagiarized dissertation, Richard Blumenthal's lie about having served in Vietnam, Bill Clinton's longtime randy conduct, and to end this dismal list of Democrat hypocrites for now, Ted Kennedy's drunken swim sprint away from a drowning woman. Published October 3, 2018

EDITORIAL: Paying more for defense is better than bribing the mullahs to behave

Crude oil, the lifeblood of the global economy, is returning to its expensive past. While President Trump's economic revival has put more money into the pockets of U.S. consumers, efforts to restrain the nuclear ambitions of Iran is pinching the supply of oil. Americans are likely to relive the pain of a decade past, but ending the Islamic regime's menacing behavior will be worth the price. Published October 3, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: More holes in Ford’s story

Gabriella Munoz's article today concerning Judge Brett Kavanaugh's letter that describes his group as "loud, obnoxious drunks" in fair warning to neighbors during beach week kind of blows up Christine Blasey Ford's version of events at the intimate get-together she says she attended ("1983 letter from Kavanaugh: Warn the neighbors that we're 'loud, obnoxious drunks,'" Web, Oct. 3). Published October 3, 2018

EDITORIAL: Looking for fairness in the Senate

Compromise can be a great idea, the averaging of demands and agreeing in good faith to make a half-measure work. Like many theories, it doesn't always work in practice. The man with one foot in a fire and the other in a bucket of ice water is, on average, warm. But he's usually not very comfortable. Published October 2, 2018