THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: The wolf at the door

The Children's Hour at the White House is over, and it's time to get serious about North Korea. The consequences that nobody wants to think about are finally at hand. The peril is great and the hour is late. Published July 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Independence Day for affordable energy

Donald Trump has called the last week of June as Energy Week, but if the trend holds 2017 could be remembered as Energy Year. Americans love exploiting the gasoline abundance that emboldened Fourth of July holiday drivers to hit the road in record numbers. When the brakes are released, the great American economic machine is ready to gas up and take off. Published July 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Closure Trump’s opportunity

The impending possibility of a government shutdown due to the failure of Congress to raise the debt limit presents an interesting opportunity for President Trump. Published July 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Famous and inane for 15

Decades ago, in an especially prescient moment, Andy Warhol declared, "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." His forecast has virtually become reality. In this age of electronic communication, when billions have access to hand-held or desktop devices that allow them to communicate the mundanity of their own, everyday lives, hundreds of millions do so. Published July 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump a modern Einstein?

Albert Einstein is generally regarded as one of the most brilliant men of the 20th century. His efforts to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to research and develop the atomic bomb almost certainly saved the lives of a million American servicemen and -women who would have perished in the planned invasion of Japan. Published July 4, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let mourning doves be

Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) just voted in favor of a proposal to open a shooting season on mourning doves in our state ("Michigan hunters take aim at sandhill cranes, mourning doves," Web, July 1). Mourning doves have been protected in Michigan for over a century. There is no reason to shoot them. They have very little meat on them, and they have no overpopulation issue. The only reason to shoot them is target practice. Mourning doves are hard-to-hit targets, so there is a high (30 percent) wounding rate. Doves do not need to be "managed" by a shooting season since they have a natural mortality rate of 50 or 60 percent. Published July 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: Living with Putin

Marcus Wolf, the East German intelligence operative who managed to put a Soviet spy in West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's bed, isn't much impressed by Vladimir Putin. Mr. Wolf scoffed at Mr. Putin's claim that he lived in Dresden for 15 years as the liaison between the Soviet KGB and Communist East Germany's spies. Mr. Putin couldn't have been that important, he said, if he had not known him. Published July 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: The dilemma of the Democrats

Despite all she can do about it, Nancy Pelosi looks less like a bird of paradise than an albatross. The Ancient Mariner would recognize her in a San Francisco minute. Losing that special election in Georgia, which the Democrats had counted on to give them momentum heading into the midterm congressional elections next year, was the last of several bitter disappointments. Published July 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: The Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Published July 3, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Stuff’ no substitute for liberty

Today we recognize the Declaration of Independence, which essentially defines the American dream: inalienable natural rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution establishes a government embodying these rights by promoting general welfare and securing the blessings of liberty. Published July 3, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump can change Washington

You get a better sense of a person when in his or her presence -- even when sitting six rows away. President Trump is very much an alpha male. That alone is reason enough to upset the left. To the political left, masculinity, like patriotism, is better left locked up in the past. Published July 3, 2017

EDITORIAL: A crazy capital summer

Another day, another breach of civility and manners. Donald Trump lashes out at a television tag team for throwing spitballs at him. Yawn. The president's press agent trades insults, or at least schoolyard yahs-yahs, with a reporter at the White House. Maxine Waters, having given up on impeachment, now wants to send the president into exile, where she does not say, but either Upper or Lower Slobbovia would do. Published July 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: Sanctuary for the law-abiding

Anniversaries can be an occasion for remembrance and celebration, but some recall only pain and regrets. Saturday marked two years since Kate Steinle was slain on a stroll with her father on the San Francisco waterfront by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times. This is an anniversary marked by the passage, in the U.S. House of Representatives, of legislation called Kate's Law, to prevent such tragedies. No one gets a guarantee that life won't include a raw deal, but no one should be a victim to an uninvited and lawless "guest." Published July 2, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A lot to hide

The constant attacks on President Trump since he won the election is the result of several realizations among the political left, and there is a need to bring him down before he can get started. The leftists employed nationally to disrupt campuses and streets alike, coupled with a conspiring media and a tainted political class, have been brought to bear with full measure. Published July 2, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop carb stuffing

Ever hear of grain-fed or "finished" beef? It is common practice for a farmer to increase the ratio of grain to forage to fatten up ruminant animals before slaughter. Nowhere in "Third of American pets simply too fat" (Page I, June 28) is it mentioned that what these pets eat might be the problem. Instead the reader is invited to the latest take on "eat less, move more." Published July 2, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ADL no friend of CAIR

In "The rise of inflexible progressivism" (Web, June 27) Herbert London grossly mischaracterizes the Anti-Defamation League's positions on both Linda Sarsour and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Published July 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: The wider war in Syria

With growing civilian casualties and 9 million refugees, Syria's civil war has taken a turn for worse. Civil wars are prone to do that. Published June 29, 2017

EDITORIAL: Getting ready for the Donald

Angela Merkel, the good German who is determined make Europeans do what's good for them, wants to take Donald Trump to her woodshed at the economic summit of 20 right-thinking nations next week in Hamburg. The Donald must be taught the error of his ways and who but Europe's sternest nanny to do it. There should be lots of noise from the woodshed. Published June 29, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: End life terms for federal judges

The Supreme Court failing to take up Peruta v. California is not just a blow to the Second Amendment of the Constitution, it is a serious blow to the integrity of our entire government and may well be the final blow the integrity of the Supreme Court ("Stung by denial, gun rights advocates vow to bring other concealed carry cases before Supreme Court," Web, June 26). Published June 29, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump can undo Obama destruction

As America is threatened in many parts of the world and increasingly at risk, President Donald Trump's and Congress' priorities this summer must include rebuilding our military and restoring respect from our friends and fear in our enemies. Published June 29, 2017