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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: FBI’s wasted investigation

I just watched FBI Director James B. Comey's news brief regarding Hillary Clinton's misuse of a private server -- and came away sickened by the results of the FBI's "investigation" ("On Hillary emails, Comey's evidence clashes with Comey's conclusions," Web, July 5). Published July 6, 2016

A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas, on June 25, 2014. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Failing America again

Justice delayed is once more justice denied. The powerful elites in Washington have been satisfied to coddle illegal immigrants rather than make the safety of American citizens their first priority. With everyone watching on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate had two chances to redeem itself. The senators blew both of them. Published July 6, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J.,Wednesday, July 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

EDITORIAL: A sad day for Mr. Comey and the FBI

James B. Comey obviously had little taste for a head-on collision with Hillary Clinton, despite the remarkable bill of particulars he presented with his announcement that there will be no prosecution of the lady who is expected to be the Democratic nominee for president. Even more remarkable, he acknowledged that Mrs. Clinton may be too big to jail. Published July 6, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Brexit naysayers’ voting snobbery

The British voting public may not be as sophisticated as some 'Brexit' naysayers would like, but they are smart enough to know that they don't like what the European Union has done to their country. They exercised their right to vote to leave it. As Clifford D. May notes in "Rule Britannia" (Web, June 28): "That's called Democracy. Is there a preferable alternative?" Published July 5, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t ‘move on’ from Benghazi

Like millions of others nationwide, I have followed our nation's Middle East foreign policy under President Obama. And as a former U.S. multinational peacekeeper to Beirut, I am disgusted that party politics have ruined the need for our elected to release a bipartisan, post- Benghazi-terrorist-attack review. Conducting a review in the divisive unhelpful way which both parties did not only insults the sacrifices and lost lives of my comrades and their families, but mocks our collective national intelligence as well. Published July 5, 2016

President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wave following a campaign event at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Obama is spending the afternoon campaigning for Clinton. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: ‘Indicting’ Hillary

It's probably true, as a courthouse wisecrack first put it many years ago, that even a mediocre prosecutor can persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Loretta Lynch, the nation's top prosecutor, now has the whole ham in front of her, and by one imaginative reading the FBI has all but dared her to proceed against Hillary Clinton. Published July 5, 2016

FILE - In this Sunday, June 12, 2016 file photo, law enforcement officials work at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., following the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. More police departments are exploring technology that would allow 911 emergency dispatchers to receive text messages from people who need help. When gunshots rang out at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, patrons hid from the gunman and frantically texted relatives to call 911 because Orlando doesn't have 911 texting. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

EDITORIAL: Moving against gun violence

Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, the only licensed psychologist in the House of Representatives, has worked for three years to win bipartisan votes for his "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." He was asked by the House Republican leadership to examine the nation's mental-health system and recommend reforms that could prevent or make less likely mass shootings by the dangerously mentally ill. Published July 5, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Change school hiring policy

A 22-year-old former teacher's aide in Glenarden, Md., has been indicted on child abuse, sex offense and child pornography charges ("PG County grand jury indicts ex-school aide on 270 counts including child porn, sex abuse," Web, June 29). The principal of the elementary school at which this took place (who is, by the way, currently on paid leave) "says she didn't follow up or alert local authorities when parents and teachers voiced suspicions about his behavior." Why? Published July 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Far left needs reality check

It is perfectly clear that President Obama believes Islamists who kill in the name of Islam and in accordance with the Koran, the hadiths and Shariah are part of a religious movement that is basically good. It is also perfectly clear that a large number of U.S. citizens, mainly of the far left and liberal strain, believe the same thing, and in this regard they are severely misguided and part of the nation's dive into a death pit of radical Islamic killing and intolerance. Published July 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Covering up for Hillary

All the obfuscation in the world delivered with all the sincerity she can muster will not obscure the deception in which Hillary Clinton engaged as the death of four Americans in Benghazi became known ("Beware of the supreme maestro of shameless cover-ups," Web, June 28). As always with the Clinton carnival and the Democratic Party, it is politics above truth. Published July 4, 2016

FILE - In this June 13, 2016 file photo, flags fly at half-staff around the Washington Monument at daybreak in Washington, by order of President Obama, the day after more than four dozen people were killed in the Orlando, Fla., nightclub shootings. As the nation marks Independence Day on Monday, lowering the flag remains a visible, immediate way to pay tribute in hours of tragedy, but flag buffs have noted that the honor has been extended more widely over time, and they and other Americans have questioned whether the country has lowered the bar on the lowering the flag. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

EDITORIAL: The blame game on steroids

It's getting ever more difficult to live a right-side-up life in a world turned upside down. Despite trying to do the right thing, offering their prayers and comfort to the friends and families of the dead at Orlando, Christians are now being told to take back their prayers because they're the people responsible for the massacre. Published July 4, 2016

The Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2016. Opinions from the nation's highest court are expected today. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: Preserving a rite of passage

Litigation over abortion threatens to go on forever, and it probably will. Feminists see abortion almost as a rite of female passage; others as an offense against nature, if not against God. Hence conviction versus convenience winds up over and over in the courts. The latest case before the U.S. Supreme Court should have been the rare occasion when both sides would agree on a worthy outcome, that abortion clinics should be required to observe basic requirements of sanitation and medical safety for women. Published July 4, 2016

Illustration on the spirit of July 4 by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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, 2016

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Bangladesh: 4 things

Here are four things to know about Bangladesh, the South Asia nation where Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) terrorists claimed responsibility for the siege in the capital of Dhaka. Published July 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Global fallout of Obama’s timidity

After eight years of President Obama, enemies of America understand that this president was never interested in defending his country or keeping it a superpower. And they are exploiting Mr. Obama's compromising of America and his betrayal of oath, office and country. Published June 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The real American dream

On July 4 we recognize the Declaration of Independence, which defines the American dream of inalienable natural rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution establishes a government to secure those rights by promoting the general welfare and the blessings of liberty. Published June 30, 2016

FILE In this Jan. 25, 2015 file photo, Chile's Navy ship Aquiles moves alongside the Hurd Peninsula, seen from Livingston Islands, part of the South Shetland Islands archipelago in Antarctica. Antarcticas ozone hole is finally starting to heal, a new study finds. In a study showing that the world can fix man-made environmental problems when it gets together, research from the U.S. and the United Kingdom show that the September-October ozone hole over Antarctica is getting smaller and forming later in the year. And the study in the journal Science also shows other indications that the ozone layer is improving after it was being eaten away from chemicals in aerosols and refrigerants. Ozone is a combination of three oxygen atoms that high in the atmosphere shields Earth from much of the suns ultraviolet rays. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Pushing back the green bullies

Sometimes bullies pick on the wrong target. The state attorneys general who thought they could walk over climate-change skeptics with impunity made that mistake. The debate that backers of President Obama's global warming schemes don't want to entertain isn't merely about facts and figures, but about the First Amendment right to free speech. Questioning authority is an American tradition, but it can be inconvenient. Published June 30, 2016

In this Wednesday, June 29, 2016 photo, tomato plants in a plastic box offer a modest start for a garden at a new camp for homeless women in Eugene, Ore. The camp is the fourth Safe Spot Community opened and operated by Community Supported Shelters for homeless citizens in the Eugene and Springfield area. (Brian Davies/The Register-Guard via AP)

No blue ribbons for pot

It's difficult to hold a state fair when the District of Columbia is not even a state and is unlikely to become one, but a fair is always fun, with displays of pigs and cows and the bounty of the field, usually with a Ferris wheel and a midway offering unlikely freaks and games where the customer is never always right. Published June 30, 2016