THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: When pants can talk

If you think your privacy is not safe from intruders now, wait until your pants start talking. That might be sooner than you think. Published June 8, 2017

EDITORIAL: When not to roll over the opposition

When Sen. Harry Reid detonated the "nuclear option," eliminating filibusters against nominations of federal district and appellate court judges, he was confident that Democrats would retain their Senate majority in 2014 and hold the White House in 2016, for as long as the wind blows and the rivers run to the sea. Published June 8, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ike’s son unlikely to like

In his op-ed on the National Eisenhower Memorial, former Sen. Bob Dole suggests that John S.D. Eisenhower, the late president's son, would have been proud to attend the opening of the memorial were he alive to see it ("Honoring a general and a president," Web, June 4). Published June 7, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Comey furor just election payback

It's high time we sought some grounded perspective on the James Comey situation. Per the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. 1503, "whoever corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be (guilty of an offense)." It has been crystal-clear and inarguable that Hillary Clinton and many members of her team committed multiple crimes of obstruction of justice relating to her email server and other matters. And what about the airplane meeting of Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch just one week before Mr. Comey's July 5 press conference? Published June 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: Mr. Comey’s big day

America will be all ears when James Comey opens up Thursday about his conversations with President Trump and allegations that the Russians interfered with the 2016 election. Whatever he says, the Never-Trumpers will nod that their worst suspicions have been confirmed, that the commander in chief is a Manchurian candidate with a thing for Russia. Perhaps Mr. Comey will persuade everyone that there is, after all, a "there" there. So far there's no fire, no smoke, only a vapor produced by heavy breathing. Published June 7, 2017

EDITORIAL: A ‘decapitation’ roils Britain on election eve

Britain finally votes on Thursday, and Theresa May and the Conservatives, who expected to win a landslide when the prime minister called this "snap election" six weeks ago, are expected to stumble across the finish line 5 points ahead of the Labor Party. Published June 7, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: First, accept reality

Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media have both failed to accept the reality of President Trump's election win. Mrs. Clinton blamed James Comey, WikiLeaks, Russia, The New York Times, Netflix and more for her loss. Why the continued resistance to Mr. Trump? Published June 6, 2017

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power’

Professor Eliot A. Cohen, a Johns Hopkins University historian who served as an adviser in both the Defense and State Departments, chose an unambiguous title for his latest book: "The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force." Published June 6, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Give Trump his due

For some time I have been concerned about Washington Times headline writers, who are giving me the impression of an unwarranted hostility toward President Trump. For example, the caption of a recent front-page picture of Mr. Trump says the president "goes it alone" concerning the Paris environmental agreement. Published June 6, 2017

EDITORIAL: A special time for murder

Holy occasions call for religious observance, and believers try to be on righteous behavior. But what they do depends on what they believe. Published June 6, 2017

EDITORIAL: ‘Enough is enough’

"Enough is enough," says Britain's prime minister, Theresa May. With only hours to go before the British national parliamentary elections on Thursday, and with rescue workers still looking for bodies from the latest terror outrage, Mrs. May has discovered "Islamist extremism." Published June 6, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.K. can learn from Israel

The three recent terrorist attacks in England have focused the attention of the world on the death, pain and suffering caused by these murders. However, the successful prevention of other terrorist attacks has not garnered much publicity. An example of this is the generally unreported capture of two separate Palestinian terrorists trying to enter Israel last month while carrying pipe bombs. In both cases, the men were caught by metal detectors at an Israeli checkpoint. Published June 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate hysteria pays big

The global-warming fad has become such a big financial success because writers get paid to scare the public with stories of doom. Reporters, "scientists," Chinese wind-and-solar factories, politicians, etc., all make money and gain power from the false idea that Earth is burning up. Published June 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Dumping Dodd-Frank

Rewarding success and punishing failure is the best way to ensure more of the first and less of the second. That's common sense, but Congress has a knack for spreading confusion. The Obama-era financial services law called Dodd-Frank was intended to prevent financial practices that triggered the Great Recession of 2008, but its mountains of regulations have picked the pockets of consumers rather than protecting them. An opportunity is at hand to restore balance between freedom and responsibility in the marketplace. Published June 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: The romance of the ‘resistance’

Democrats write off President Donald Trump's concerns about leaks, anonymous statements to the press, and other malfeasance by Obama holdovers and career bureaucrats inside the government, as merely the paranoid ramblings of someone who has no right to the job he was elected to hold. They're attempting nothing less than to nullify the election. Published June 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Saved from pact in nick of time

Anyone who heard President Trump's speech withdrawing America from the Paris Agreement and still thinks that pact was really about saving the planet is either a pathological believer in anything the mainstream media says or a hard-core member of the "commie-crat" party, whose goal is the destruction of America's economy. Published June 4, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Particulate matter cause of warming?

It's about time that someone brought an end to this "climate change" business. It's not the carbon in the atmosphere that causes Earth to warm; it's the lack of particulate matter. A little history for everyone: In 1883 when Krakatoa erupted Europe experienced two years without any real summer. And after Mt. St. Helens erupted, we had several bad winters. Published June 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: Reasonable questions for visitors

The White House has introduced a new questionnaire for visa applicants that asks for more detailed information about who they are. Applicants for permission to enter the United States are to be asked to provide consular officials with a list of all the names they've used on social media for the past five years. This is a reasonable request for information that would give the U.S. government ways to check for ties to terrorist organizations and clues to behavior that indicates risk to America. Published June 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: One small step for mankind

Donald Trump thinks big. Ambition large and small stirs in the presidential breast. Even his meanest critics, skeptical of what his ambitions are, give him that. The largest of those ambitions now is to do something to eliminate the radical Islamic terrorism that has set the world aflame. Published June 4, 2017

EDITORIAL: 18 reasons why Hillary lost

Hillary Clinton continues to discover how she failed twice to become "the inevitable president," the second time by blowing the election that all the politicians, pundits, pollsters and consultants said she couldn't lose. Hillary has developed a special gift at this. Published June 1, 2017