THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Powerball numbers for Wednesday, June 15 revealed

With six weeks since the last big winner, Powerball officials drew Wednesday for a jackpot that has now topped $150 million and is now a nine-digit lump sum. Published June 15, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keep bee hives alive

I appreciated the article "Wisconsin beekeepers battle dramatic honeybee losses" (Web, June 13). In discussing the plight of these beekeepers, let us not underrate the significance of where these losses are occurring. Wisconsin produces a whopping 58 percent of the nation's cranberry crop, and yielded 40.7 million pounds of apples in 2014. Both of these crops make Wisconsin's top-10 cash crops list, and both depend on pollinators. Published June 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton revises abortion criteria

People who walk in the middle of the road risk getting run over, and Hillary Clinton is not making that mistake twice. Joining Barack Obama's eight-year campaign to steer the nation to the left side of the road, Hillary has declared abortion a fundamental component of keeping women healthy. As a corollary, the lives of infants don't matter. Published June 15, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Report truth about terror

Mohammad's teachings and the laws of Shariah both give followers commands to act against gays and Jews, and some Muslims are heeding these commands (i.e. Islamic State beheadings, terror bombings in Europe, jihad in Israel, the recent shootings in Orlando). Published June 15, 2016

Obama’s rant against American attitudes was divisive

Donald Trump gets a lot of advice, some of it friendly and most of it not, about how he should "act presidential." We, too, have offered suggestions about how he could look and speak more like a president, now that there's a real possibility that he could become one. Published June 15, 2016

Deborah Simmons, Washington Times investigative reporters win journalism awards

Longtime Washington Times columnist Deborah Simmons and a major Times investigation into the finances of Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the top honorees at the local Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Dateline Awards presented Tuesday evening at the National Press Club. Published June 15, 2016

Power of prayer: Connecting fathers with families, despite prison bars

On June 11, Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois Democrat, hosted the 2016 Family Reconnection Program, an annual event in which children are welcomed to visit their incarcerated fathers in honor of Father's Day. Published June 15, 2016

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Funding our own demise?

Our country has become a host for parasites from all over the world. They come here and feed off our social support network; more than 68 percent of those from Muslim countries in violent conflict are on cash welfare. Many others are recipients of EBT food cards, housing support and public education, and have neither marketable skills nor an interest in becoming Americans. Published June 14, 2016

Unsustainable minimum wage won’t get economy cooking

The "dollar menu" at McDonald's has vanished, but there's a new $15 menu. It's called the government-mandated minimum wage. In a sagging economy, overpaid and underseasoned McJobs are attracting the best and the brightest straight out of the likes of Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Published June 14, 2016

Saudi Arabia begins to overhaul autocracy

Forever is a long time, but it doesn't last forever, not even in the Middle East. The Saudis are taking the first baby stops to overhaul their notoriously autocratic regime. Published June 14, 2016

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump the anti-Obama

Donald Trump is catching flak from liberal media types because he recently had the audacity to question President Obama's handling of the Orlando massacre. Mr. Obama still refuses to label that heinous act radical Islamic terrorism. Published June 14, 2016

Brexit, Republican president might revive U.S./Britain relationship

Arguments over the role of Britain in Europe will continue beyond the outcome of the referendum June 23 on whether Britain should leave the European Union, which appears more likely than it did a fortnight ago. A stunning new public-opinion poll shows a dramatic 10-point swing in public opinion, and what the British call "Brexit," or "British exit," now favors leaving, and by a substantial margin. Published June 13, 2016

Massacre in Orlando caused by president who won’t lead

Orlando is the home of Disneyworld, but it's clear that Mickey Mouse has a second home at Barack Obama's White House. In the wake of the Sunday attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, with 50 dead and 53 others left wounded, President Obama presented the grim face that Americans have come to expect after such acts of horror. Published June 13, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To save U.S., back Donald Trump

Mitt Romney's scathing remarks about Donald Trump's competency to be president are hypocritical, to say the least — particularly given that in 2008 Romney betrayed the Republican Party in his feckless presidential debate against President Obama. Published June 13, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keep Taiwan ‘lighthouse of freedom’

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's decision to block former President Ma Ying-jeou from visiting Hong Kong flies in the face of the values of human rights, and has raised concerns about democracy and freedom in Taiwan. Published June 13, 2016

Endorsement bad news for Hillary

President Obama has just stiffed Hillary Clinton and dramatically reduced her chances of winning the presidential election. Mr. Obama is unpopular among voters and arguably the worst president in the history of the country. By any measure he has caused enormous damage to the United States and ordinary Americans, and left both in far worse shape than they were in when he took office. Published June 12, 2016

Blue Angels told to get lost by San Francisco supervisor

San Francisco is America's most entertaining city, though not always in the way the people who live there think it is. "Baghdad by the Bay," as a favorite newspaper columnist was fond of calling it, did not invent the politics of the absurd, but San Francisco is where the absurdities were perfected. Published June 12, 2016

The Export-Import Bank strikes back

Government funding for the Export-Import Bank, which was organized during the Depression years to subsidize loan guarantees for major American exporters, has been a target of Republican reformers and their campaign to eliminate corrupt federal agencies that only waste money. But the Ex-Im Bank is regarded as the crown jewel of corporate welfare, and it survived the budget knife only barely last year. Published June 12, 2016

Our freedoms make us exceptional

American exceptionalism is the unique liberty that we Americans enjoy due to our philosophy and system of government. The Declaration of Independence states that each of us has the same natural rights, and these cannot be given or taken away by another person. Among those rights are the rights to life, liberty and property. Published June 12, 2016

Congress negligent on Zika

This do-nothing Congress has yet to declare war on the Zika virus and its attendant microcephaly manifestations. As usual, both houses feel compelled to play their little money games; the Senate's $1.1-billion proposal is part of a herculean transportation-spending bill, which includes weakening trucker rest regulations favored by the trucking industry. The House's $622 million appropriation is not much better. Published June 9, 2016