THE WASHINGTON TIMES

End pathogen animal experiments

Lab accidents are shockingly common. One investigation identified 450 accidents just in U.S. laboratories working with dangerous pathogens from 2015 through 2019. A Wuhan lab-leak origin for the COVID-19 pandemic is not far-fetched. Published January 4, 2022

Committee a disgraceful sham

Nancy Pelosi is pushing the Jan. 6 committee process even as she is clearly culpable for having failed to deploy National Guard troops prior to that day. She was warned repeatedly of the need for troop protection. Published January 4, 2022

Trump not responsible for Jan. 6

How is it that both Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in 2016, and Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, can claim that elections were stolen from them -- and remain in the good graces of the Democratic Party? Trump was declared a national security threat when he did the same thing. It is flagrantly obvious that hypocrisy runs deep through the veins of the Democrats. And because of their deep-rooted hatred of Trump, Democrats will hold him responsible for all the ill that occurs. Published January 4, 2022

Retake America from dangerous left

When truth becomes perspective and reality turns to elusion, honesty will be forbidden and history will evaporate. Democrats' strategy is to destroy and replace the current system while raising a new generation with new definitions of ethics, moral, heroism and family. Published January 2, 2022

Moves for world peace

The European Union is an enviable, proven model for nations to live in peace and prosperity. Belarus and Russia should be invited to join it just as Ukraine was, so that they can share in the good. Published January 2, 2022

Neutrality the answer?

The best way for the U.S. to avoid being involved in a war between Ukraine and Russia is to simply declare neutrality. In 1965 the U.S. remained neutral in the Indo-Pakistan conflict, and it did the same in 1971. The U.S. had interest in remaining friendly with both of those countries. Published January 2, 2022

Prevention, not confiscation, the answer

Most shooting incidents occur in "gun-free" zones -- areas targeted by criminals, terrorists and people with mental-health issues ("4 shot in Denver rampage attacked at tattoo shops," Web, Dec. 29). Published December 30, 2021

Reid was no saint

From most of what the Democrats are saying about the late Sen. Harry Reid, one would think the man had been a hero or a saint. He was not. He played a critical part in political dirty infighting. He lied on the floor of the Senate about Obamacare, about the death of our ambassador in Benghazi and about the Republican nominee facing Obama in the presendential election. Many in his own party kindly called him a "fighter." In fact, he was a man who gave energy to political nastiness. Published December 30, 2021

What will replace PCR test?

So the PCR test used to diagnose the existence of COVID-19 comes to an end today. The reason given by the Centers for Disease Control and Precention is the test cannot differentiate between COVID-19 and the flu. Published December 30, 2021

Vaccine mandates not about public health

It is too late for the military; too many in the ranks have been vaccinated ("Pentagon goes to court to defend COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops," Web, Dec. 27). They are all in a vaccine trial, and Pfizer is apparently not going to tell them or anybody else what to expect for at least 55 years.< Published December 29, 2021

Onus is on conservative media

Conservative journalists can write about the wrongs committed by the political left and the Democratic Party until the cows come home, and very little will change. Journalists need to continuously use their platform to explain to the average conservative voter that he or she should be outraged over being treated as a second-class citizen. Such voters should be encouraged to behave as their forefathers did -- with dignity and righteous anger, and as stalwarts of freedom. Published December 29, 2021

Deeper dive on pharma required

"Saving lives comes first for drug companies" (Web, Dec. 26) reads like a PR piece for Big Pharma, funded by Big Pharma. "As a percentage of sales revenue, the industry's total advertising dropped from 6% in 1970 to 3% in 2018" is meaningless and calls into question everything else in the article. Published December 29, 2021

Term limits now

One of the many accomplishments of President Trump during his one term in office was to expose the malevolence, treachery and pervasiveness of the "swamp" in Washington. That such an entity would exist was predicted as long ago as 1788, when an anonymous essayist noted that from time to time, lawmakers would become "inattentive to the public good, callous, selfish, and the fountain of corruption." During that same year, Thomas Jefferson agreed when he wrote, "I apprehend that the total abandonment of the principal of rotation in the offices of the president and senator will end in abuse." Wow, were they prescient! Published December 28, 2021

CDC attempting ‘herd immunity’ for U.S.?

While the "CDC recommends shorter COVID isolation, quarantine time" (Web, Dec. 27), a study in the medical journal "JAMA Network Open" recently reported that 40.50% of populations infected with SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic. Thus reducing the isolation period from 10 to five days may keep society 'functioning', but at the risk of asymptomatic spread. Published December 28, 2021

Canadian pharma needs priority fix

In Canada, unlike the U.S., people's health comes second to maximizing pharmaceutical industry profits ("Saving lives comes first for drug companies," Web, Dec. 26). Published December 28, 2021

So much for ‘crushing’ COVID-19

Talk is cheap. And talk is apparently all Joe Biden is good for ("Biden's Christmas crisis: 2021 ends with 400K more COVID-19 deaths," Web, Dec. 25). After he promised to "crush the virus," there were more COVID-19 deaths on Biden's watch than there had been on President Trump's. As we have seen, Biden is long on promises but short on delivery. Published December 27, 2021

Open borders an obviously bad idea

Taxpayers such as myself are dumbfounded by the open-door border policies of the current administration. How does the Biden team intend to provide housing, health care, education and jobs for nearly 2 million people without raising taxes on us? This is creating a new wave of poverty for individuals in a country already struggling to provide for citizens. Published December 27, 2021

Crystal meth helped Germans in war

Recent reports have revealed that "study drugs" are now widely used by students in British universities. This is unfortunately nothing new. The use of methamphetamine (a.k.a. crystal meth) was prevalent among German troops during World War II. It was issued in a pill form, known as Pervitin. The British became aware of this practice when they studied Germany's astonishingly successful invasion through the Ardennes in 1940, when German soldiers remained awake for days and stormed across France to the Channel. Published December 27, 2021

Maryland’s Hogan a RINO

What do you call a Republican governor's veto when the state legislature has a Democratic supermajority in both houses? A nothing burger ("Hogan's criticism of Trump is misdirected," Web, Dec. 21). When that governor is also a RINO ("Republican in Name Only"), such vetoes are merely a way of gaining 'street cred' within the party without actually accomplishing anything. That's a win-win situation for a RINO. Published December 26, 2021

Black families still under attack from left

It would be wonderful news --and our society would be so much more peaceful--if what Terris Todd wrote in "Black fathers matter" (Web, Dec. 20) were true and verifiable. Writes Mr. Todd: "Society has painted Black fathers with a broad brush ... as unresponsive to our children's needs." He cites statistics ahowing that in 1990 3.4 million Black families were headed by single mothers, and that number grew to 4.25 million in 2020. Then he writes that "Countless [Black] fathers have returned to once fatherless homes," but he cites no data to support this. Published December 26, 2021