THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: A change of hope

Tempus fugits without much month-to-month change. February is a lot like January, August a lot like July. But the pace of change quickens, and overnight everything old seems new again. The 2016 presidential election was a sudden and breathtaking upheaval of wishes and dreams as Americans divided themselves between those who want, or think they want, a fundamentally transformed United States, and those who yearn to "make America great again." These opposing emotions of disappointment and expectation collide to promise a jarring ride through 2017. Published January 10, 2017

Monica Crowley publisher removes book from retailers due to plagiarism charges

HarperCollins, the publisher of a 2012 book by Monica Crowley, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to fill a key national security post, said Tuesday it was temporarily withdrawing the digital version of the book from circulation amid charges that portions of the book were plagiarized. Published January 10, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Abortion still kills

"Kentucky lawmakers kick off session with three pro-life bills" (Web, Jan. 5) quotes Tamarri Wieder, director of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, as saying, "Abortion did not just start happening after Roe v. Wade; women just stopped dying from them." This is not the case. Just check with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, under the topic of abortion surveillance. Published January 9, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Democratic Party an ashen heap

It took eight years for Bill Clinton to rebuild the Democratic Party — and it took his wife and President Obama the exact amount of time to undo it. Hillary Clinton's only opportunity to be elected president was 2008, when her abrasiveness was her main obstacle. Published January 9, 2017

EDITORIAL: The 2016 campaign continues

Faith, as the Bible teaches us, is the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the key to belief that surpasses all understanding, and now the secular intelligence chiefs tells us that trust is the key to understanding affairs of state, too. All the president's men, or at least some of them, have now spoken what they insist is the last word on the Russian hacking scandal, concluding that Vladimir Putin plotted to choose the 45th president of the United States. If the chiefs of spies were to explain how they know that, they would probably have to kill us. Published January 9, 2017

EDITORIAL: Making good on the promise

Donald Trump's signature campaign promise was to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border to take control of immigration to America. The promise was appealing to most Americans, because every nation in the world has the right to control who gets in, and how. Published January 9, 2017

The black friends of Jeff Sessions

The confirmation hearings for Cabinet and other high-position nominees, of and by any president, must be fair but robust. The questions put to the nominee must be tough but just. But sometimes confirmation hearings can become what Clarence Thomas, who survived a mean and unjust hearing to become a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, called "a high-tech lynching." Published January 8, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The real Obama legacy

President Obama imposed regulations to help specific businesses, such as Tesla Motors and Solar City, while destroying others, such as coal companies. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has achieved massive wealth with subsidies from taxpayers. His company makes electric toys for well-to-do people. Published January 8, 2017

California discovers states’ rights

The Democratic liberals have treated the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution with the respect given to discarded Kleenex over the eight years of the Obama presidency. But California, the bluest of the blue states, has just discovered, of all things, states' rights. The ghost of Strom Thurmond and his States' Rights Democrats is apparently alive and well in Sacramento. Published January 8, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stars unqualified to talk intelligence

Hollywood has had a lot to say in the last year about President-elect Donald Trump. Very little of it has been nice. Whoopi Goldberg promised to flee America if Mr. Trump was elected. She's still here, along with other high school dropouts Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen and Cher, all of whom share Ms. Goldberg's disdain for our soon-to-be president. Published January 5, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama broke own promise

President Obama claims that he would be elected to a third term if it were not prohibited ("Some big talk on the way out," Web, Dec. 28). I'm 90 years old. I've lived through some of the best and some of the worst times in our history. I believe it has been reported that the country is now more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Published January 5, 2017

Pure evil in Chicago

Evil is more than something in the eye of the beholder, and someone who can't recognize evil when he sees it reveals a lot about who he is and where he comes from. Published January 5, 2017

Giving Congress a good shake

Congress, like a proper martini, should be shaken, not stirred. Democrats and Republicans alike are getting an early demonstration of the effects of a good shaking. Shaking can move mountains, and even timid congressmen. Published January 5, 2017

Hot on the trail of cyberhacking

Condemnation of Russia's presumed cyberhacking, aimed at high-level figures suspected of abusing the latest presidential election campaign, has sprouted from every corner of Washington. There's little mischief to anger Americans more than the idea that foreigners are manipulating the transferral of governing from one president to another. Published January 4, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump haters’ hypocrisy

On the day President-elect Donald Trump takes over, Gloria Steinem and others of her ilk will again attempt to spread the blather of socialist hypocrisy ("Liberals revive anti-women narrative for the Trump era," Web, Jan. 3). Ms. Steinem and others from the supposedly faultless Planned Parenthood wish to portray Mr. Trump as anti-women based on some dumb comments he made years ago. Published January 4, 2017

University of Maryland progressive students submit list of demands

A sequel of sorts to the 1975 film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," is playing out at the University of Maryland at College Park, where the inmates are threatening to take over the asylum. The cuckoo's nest, which the movie set in Oregon, has been moved to College Park. Published January 4, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Better men than Obama and John Kerry would leave Washington

Both President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have publicly proclaimed that they will stay in Washington in 2017 to continue to push their (failed) political agenda on the people of the United States of America. Published January 4, 2017

Stalling of Cabinet appointments inevitable

What goes around comes around, and never more often than in the partisan games politicians play. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the new leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, is determined to put a quick finish to whatever honeymoon Donald Trump may get when he becomes the president two weeks hence. Published January 3, 2017

Court strikes child sex-change procedure law, striking a blow for good sense

When the urge to be edgy leads to fad, the unique, the uncommon and sometimes the weird and goofy is suddenly high fashion. In 2016, "transgenderism," the urge to be what you're not, became a fad. A visitor from Mars might think that every Earthling is determined only to change his sex and find an inappropriate place to pee. Published January 3, 2017

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Restore equality for boys, men

I hope that the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump will act immediately to restore equal justice, equal rights and equal opportunity to those whom the Obama administration has denied all these things -- boys, men and fathers. An excellent starting point would be the Department of Education, which will be under his direct administrative control ("Donald Trump and Bill Gates find common ground," Web, Dec. 28). Published January 3, 2017