THE WASHINGTON TIMES

2017 Sunhak Peace Prize Awarded to Italian Surgeon Gino Strada and Afghan Educator Sakena Yacoobi

Dr. Gino Strada, 68, a surgeon who works on the front lines of war zones and in refugee camps, and Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, 66, an Afghan educator who teaches in resettlement camps in Afghanistan, were selected as co-recipients of the Sunhak Peace Prize at a ceremony in Seoul, Korea on Friday, March 3. Published February 6, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Police should watch body-camera footage

"Oklahoma sheriff seeking body cameras after 2015 fatal shoot" (Web, Jan. 31) reports on the push to have police officers wear body cameras in an effort to bring accountability to those officers who use excessive force. Published February 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: More nibbling at the Boy Scout oath

The assault on everything normal continues. The Boy Scouts of America abandoned the Scout Oath three years ago, which obliged a Scout to "keep myself morally pure," and opened its troops to boys who identify with the homosexual persuasion. Two years later it invited gay Scoutmasters to mentor the boys. Published February 5, 2017

EDITORIAL: Uncle Sap no longer lives here

President Trump's ordering of certain mild sanctions against Iran and its friends only stings. Nobody feels much actual pain. But it sends a message to Iran that its testing of ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear weapon violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the agreement it signed with the United States and other nations of the West. Published February 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. taking power back from left

Donald Trump assuming the presidency finds an unhinged political left still unable to cope with or accept the reality that President Obama's anti-American transformation is being erased by pro-American restoration. Published February 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Never quiet for long

Just like a bad, unwanted penny, former President Barack Obama couldn't last 10 days before resurfacing. Published February 2, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Executive order necessary

As attested to by the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community is concerned that the Islamic State has the ability to manufacture fraudulent passports ("How Donald Trump strengthens national security," Web, Feb. 1). Published February 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: Indigestion at the table

San Francisco has long been on the cutting edge of fine cuisine, the gustatory equal of New York and New Orleans. The city sometimes calls itself "Baghdad by the Bay," a marketing stroke obviously coined by someone who had never been east of Suez, "where the best is like the worst." So when restaurant after restaurant started closing in recent months the foodie fashionistas in San Francisco swallowed hard and asked what happened. Published February 2, 2017

EDITORIAL: When the party’s over

The radical left, which now, alas, includes the Democratic Party, has gone off the rails. Worker bees at the Environmental Protection Agency and certain other federal agencies, encouraged by their superiors, are now using encrypted messages to coordinate undermining the policies of the new Trump administration. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the party's recent vice presidential nominee, seems to endorse "fighting" the new president "in the streets." The country has never seen such subversion by a major political party. Published February 2, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Illegals, refugees cost us billions

The news media has been making much of the recent protests against President Trump's refugee-entrance suspension and deportation of illegals. Yet refugees and illegals are costing American citizens billions of dollars a year in welfare, education and health benefits. Do citizens have a choice in contributing to these benefits? No, we are being forced to pay them via taxes and inflation of the dollar by the central bank, which causes prices to rise and is a form of tax. Published February 1, 2017

EDITORIAL: Deliberate confusion over immigration

The immigration issue has become the Gordian knot of our time. It really isn't that complicated, but advocates of uncontrolled borders are more interested in turning up the heat than turning on the light. They're relentlessly dishonest. They're trying to paint the Trump presidency as a movement of Neanderthals intent on reversing "progressive" gains. Published February 1, 2017

EDITORIAL: The Gorsuch nomination

Presidents only occasionally hit home runs. In their league, curve balls simply vanish over the plate, fast balls come in with blinding speed, and sliders escape even a presidential slugger's eye. Published February 1, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump refugee move has precedent

Our friends on the political left continue to show their incredible hypocrisy. While claiming to support women and immigrants, they are more than a little critical of our first lady, who is both. President Trump has promised to do his best to keep the United States and all of her people safe and secure. Therefore it is reasonable for him to declare that no strangers will enter our country until we are sure they mean us no harm. Published February 1, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Puzder pick bad for wage growth

In an effort to distract attention from the historically unqualified labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, Richard Berman sought to slander Oxfam ("Going after the choice for Labor," Web, Jan. 23) Published January 31, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump’s unforgivable omission

It is shameful that President Trump's International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism, particularly since the president is making a big push to establish closer ties with Israel and that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka Trump and three of his grandchildren are all Jewish. This was an inexcusable omission ("US museum defines Holocaust after White House is criticized," Web, Jan. 30). Published January 31, 2017

EDITORIAL: Trump’s no-huddle offense

The opening whistle has hardly faded to an echo, and President Trump has spread his receivers and hitting his targets. Good to his word, he is executing a White House game plan with a no-huddle offense. It's driven his adversaries to angry frustration. He's winning, and they're not. Published January 31, 2017

EDITORIAL: Sainthood for Sally Yates

The rage of critics of Donald Trump has another target on Wednesday morning. They will be distracted from veneration of St. Sally by the opportunity to attempt the evisceration of the president's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Published January 31, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Rebuild military to regain strength

President Donald Trump must now seize the opportunity to embrace his role as commander in chief, rebuild our military and secure peace through strength. This will require a base defense budget of $640 billion, which is $540 billion above current plans. Published January 30, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Scapegoat Russia

I think we know who really caused the Benghazi fiasco: Vladimir Putin. I understand that he, and not some mysterious video, really stirred those murderous uprisings. Let the truth be known. After all, Mr. Putin is a KGB man. Published January 30, 2017

EDITORIAL: President Trump redeems his promises

President Donald Trump turns out to be unusually consistent in making good on his campaign promises, and this upsets the politicians to no send. The idea that he could be establishing a precedent so that voters will expect such consistency from politicians in the future is something too horrific for politicians to think about. Published January 30, 2017