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FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo, the Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels. Google is proposing a new set of emojis to highlight professional women. Google proposed in May 2016 to create a set of a emojis “with a goal of highlighting the diversity of women’s careers and empowering girls everywhere." (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

EDITORIAL: The intimate relationship between Google and the White House

Sleeping in a strange bed is not so strange in Washington, where lobbyists are eager to fluff the pillows for White House agents, and this is particularly (but not uniquely) true for the Obama administration. The intimate relationship between Google and the Obama White House is particularly close. Published May 15, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clinton

"A conservative crack-up, or Hillary's?" (Web, May 10), while an excellent piece that covers the issues, fails for understandable reasons to face the true endgame of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton. The endgame is not the response of establishment insiders. Published May 15, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clinton cash cover-up?

Let's be clear about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's obvious dodges on releasing transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street bankers. First she said she would release them when the other candidates did so. Well, it's for darn sure that Bernie Sanders didn't give any such speeches, and Republican contender Donald Trump doesn't need to do it. Mrs. Clinton is the only candidate who has given speeches to Wall Street bankers. Published May 15, 2016

Attorney General Loretta Lynch pauses during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's administration sued the federal government Monday in a fight for a state law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Obama making federal case of North Carolina transgender bathroom law

Privacy matters, just not in a public restroom. President Obama, still searching for a legacy, may have finally found one in the toilet with his "order" on Friday to every public school district in America to make their restrooms "gender-neutral." This apparently means that if a boy feels like a girl, he can "identify" as one, and use the ladies' loo. Published May 15, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: West Point’s photo failure

The photo of 16 black female cadets with their fists raised in what is commonly known as a gesture showing solidarity with the Black Panthers should have been all the proof the leadership at West Point needed to render these women unfit for service in the United States Army ("White House proud of West Point cadets in black pride photo," Web, May 10). Published May 12, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Heat’ on U.S. not global warming

It is reassuring that global warming frightens President Obama — so much so, in fact, that he has taken a break from neutering the military to put dollars into vital interests such as more Solyndra-type foolishness. For a person gifted with such radiant intelligence, Published May 12, 2016

President Obama told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung that he'll visit the communist-ruled country when he travels to Japan for the annual G-7 summit this spring. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Warming up Southeast Asia

The more things change, they more they stay the same. Southeast Asia is bubbling again, with whispers of a secret arms conference of American arms suppliers and the government of Vietnam. China's construction of military bases on reclaimed shoals in the South China Sea, put across one of the world's most important sea lanes, has put everyone on edge. Published May 12, 2016

FILE - In this June 11, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a mural in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. On Thursday, May 12, 2016, Facebook pulled back the curtain on how its Trending Topics feature works, a reaction to a report that suggested Facebook downplays conservative news subjects. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

EDITORIAL: Feds take a swing at Facebook for media bias

Some conservatives have "unfriended" Facebook, meaning they don't want to be a "friend" or user anymore. Friendship is a two-way street, even as defined on social media, and the news, denied by its management, that Facebook routinely suppresses news that appeals to conservative audiences, shouldn't surprise anyone. Published May 12, 2016

A clerk at a 7-11 store pulls Powerball tickets from a printer for a customer, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. The jackpot for tonight's drawing is over $1 billion. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Powerball numbers for Wednesday, May 11 revealed

Powerball officials drew numbers Wednesday, four days after someone in New Jersey won the lottery game's biggest prize since the world-record $1.6 billion drawing in January. Published May 11, 2016

The Virginia Supreme Court overturned a decision that created a loophole in the smoking ban when the Court of Appeals of Virginia found that She-Sha Hookah Cafe and Lounge was exempt from the Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act because, although it served food as a restaurant, it derived the majority of its business from being a retail tobacco store. Smoking remains legal in such establishments in Virginia. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Jarrad Henderson)

EDITORIAL: Government getting in way of smokers quitting

The world is full of people who think they're smarter than you. Some of them are just blowhards, know-it-alls whose advice, freely given, is safe to ignore. Some of them, alas, are federal bureaucrats in federal agencies that regulate various aspects of the U.S. economy. They write rules and regulations that are not so easy to ignore. Published May 11, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash., Saturday, May 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

EDITORIAL: Experience trumps youth in White House race

Youth is wasted on the young, so we're told, but this year there's not a lot of youth to waste. The young have been swept from the field. Barring a deus ex machina moment, one of the grayheads will win the White House. The 21st century may belong to the millennial generation, but not this year. Published May 11, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: FDA doing health a disservice

The Food and Drug Administration should regulate itself out of existence ("FDA to re-evaluate term 'healthy,'" Web, May 10). Or perhaps it should just become the "DA" rather than the "FDA." The ensuing decrease in food-supply-caused chronic disease would probably obviate the need for Obamacare. Published May 11, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Protect grizzlies

Well, that didn't take long ("Montana releases draft grizzly hunting guidelines," Web, May 5). Grizzly bears haven't even lost their Endangered Species List protection yet, and already the Walter Palmers of society are loading their guns. Published May 11, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Transgenderism may be mental

The Oregon Department of Education presented its policy interpretation allowing men to enter women's restrooms and lockers rooms based on current gender feelings ("Oregon lays out guidelines for transgender students," Web, May 6). This asymmetrical approach results in a random walk through reflective life. Published May 10, 2016

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to journalists before a meeting with French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, in Paris, Monday, May 9, 2016. Kerry has arrived in Paris for talks on the conflict in Syria. Representatives of Britain, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and the EU have also been invited in Paris Monday for a meeting in the presence of the Riad Hijab, head of the Western-backed Syrian opposition coalition, in an effort to relaunch the Syrian peace process.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

EDITORIAL: John Kerry’s world without borders

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote poet Robert Frost in a meditation on the competing needs of security and freedom. Borders and boundaries disappear as Planet Earth becomes a smooth blue orb with continents divided only by the seas in the view from space, suggesting that man is one happy family. Published May 10, 2016

In this April 27, 2016, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., gives a speech at Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik File)

EDITORIAL: The Donald Trump-Paul Ryan summit

That should be quite a session Thursday when Donald Trump and Paul Ryan sit down together to see what they have together to take the fight to the Clintons. Both men should be on their best behavior, which could be difficult for both of them, each man having said rough things about the other. Published May 10, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s press lackeys

Again the Washington press corps has proven that it is nothing more than a shill for the Democratic Party, and for President Obama in particular. Last week Mr. Obama held a press conference at which he took credit for a mythical growing and dynamic economy. He then took questions, and his lackeys in the media bombarded him with their dazzling display of pointed queries on his remarks. Published May 10, 2016

A special edition of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that marks one year after, "1 an apres" the attacks on it, on a newsstand Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 at a train station in Paris. Seventeen people died in the attacks on Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, 2015, and a kosher supermarket two days later. All three attackers died. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

EDITORIALS: Reporters risking their lives for the truth

Having a ringside seat for history being made is its own reward, but it comes with a price: When the news is unwelcome, and it often is, there's a temptation to shoot the messenger, and the messenger is often a reporter for a newspaper, a magazine, a television network and sometimes a blogger for an Internet news site. Published May 9, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dislike of Donald Trump not sour grapes

Talk about a false narrative. The Washington Times' Commentary editors would have us believe that only "elites" stand in the way of Republican unity — or, as that paragon of the "non-elite," Newt Gingrich, quoted in Monday's editorial puts it, only "these pseudo-intellectual right-wingers" ("The responsibility of the Republican elites," Web, May 8). Published May 9, 2016

In this photo taken May 6, 2016, President Barack Obama speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. There's no cheering at the White House for Donald Trump, but his ascent as the presumptive Republican nominee means a few of President Barack Obama's key achievements could be more likely to survive after he leaves office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Challenging ‘Climate Hustle’

The debate that President Obama insists is settled isn't settled, after all. The president's attempt to put an end to the discussion of his fantastical green agenda is a red herring. The president says "climate change" is a fact, and indeed it is. The climate constantly changes. It always has. No argument about that. But the debate goes on about what causes the climate to change. Published May 9, 2016