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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Easy Zika-prevention move

Robert Novak and Paul Driessen are correct in topping their list of things that people "need to do" now to stop the spread of mosquito-borne diseases with the suggestion we "[d]estroy mosquito-producing sites" ("It's not just the Zika bug," Web, April 3). Unfortunately, they fail to mention two of the most obvious and effective actions everyone can take for accomplishing this. First, just stop littering. Second, clean up the existing roadside litter now before the mosquito-breeding season begins. Published April 5, 2016

Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump."

EDITORIAL: A nation worse for the wear

Forrest Gump was a man ahead of his time. The hero of Winston Groom's novel recalled that "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." A growing number of Americans are telling pollsters that, like Forrest Gump, they're not sure what life will bring, but they're sure that it's not as good as it was in Mama's day. Published April 5, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Supreme Court needs nine

It is the constitutional power of the president of the United States to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court when a vacancy on the bench appears. Although our current Republican-majority Congress rejects the idea of a liberal president replacing the seat of a conservative judge, there is nothing in the Constitution that would disallow such an appointment. Published April 4, 2016

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, flanked by his wife Emine Erdogan, waves as he arrives to inaugurate the Diyanet Islamic Cultural Center in Lanham, Maryland, Saturday, April 2, 2016. Erdogan has vowed to back Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. During his visit to the United States, Erdogan told an Azerbaijani reporter that "we will support Azerbaijan to the end." The remarks were quoted by the presidency on Sunday.(Kayhan Ozer, Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP)

EDITORIAL: With Turkey, work ahead for President Obama

The descent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's administration into a brutish tyranny must not be something else for Barack Obama's "don't-do list." Mr. Erdogan even takes his thugs with him when he leaves Ankara. The Brookings Institution was tempted to cancel Mr. Erdogan's speech last week after his security detail roughed up American and Turkish reporters, giving Washington a taste of what's happening in Turkey. Published April 4, 2016

Melissa Click, now a former assistant professor with the University of Missouri Department of Communication, tried to grab a recording device from student reporter Mark Schierbecker. She then called for "muscle" to remove him from filming student protesters in November 2015. (YouTube/@Mark Schierbecker) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Enrollment declines at University of Missouri

Courage has its rewards, and fear has consequences, some of them measured by conscience and some in dollars and cents. This applies to institutions as well as to men, as the University of Missouri has learned to its sorrow. Published April 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump unfit for presidency

It is unlikely that Donald Trump will ever be president. Because of a flawed primary process, a news media that is hooked on style over substance and a relatively small band of irrationally angry voters, Mr. Trump has been made to look like a winner. In fact, most Republican primary voters oppose him. Published April 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Unilateral climate acts useless

The coalition of attorneys general who filed a brief last week in support of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan (CPP) apparently do not understand that the CPP will have no measurable impact on global climate ("Democratic attorneys general to police climate change dissent," Web, March 29). Published April 3, 2016

A more centrist Hillary Clinton could drive down Democratic turnout, dampen enthusiasm and hurt the Democratic Party's chances of recapturing control of Congress, said the powerful liberal PAC Democracy for America. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: GOP opposing Donald Trump could hit Supreme Court

The presidential primaries continue, with a crucial decision coming Tuesday in Wisconsin. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are far ahead of the diminished fields, but nothing is ever certain in politics. The conventional wisdom says the nominees for November will be Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, but neither is an iron-clad, brass-bottomed lock. Not yet. Published April 3, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump: No more ‘apprentices’

Donald Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again!" is an insult to "we the people" of the most exceptional country in the world. Mr. Trump, give us the date that America stopped being great. Is the idea of America as articulated by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address less valid today than yesterday? Published April 3, 2016

In this Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto, left, and President Barack Obama pose for photographers at the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico. Obama is hosting him at the White House Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, looking to his southern neighbor for help implementing his changing policies on immigration and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

EDITORIAL: In Mexico, government opening up Pemex oil monopoly

Mexico has taken one more important step to breaking up the monopoly of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the grossly inefficient government-owned producer and retailer of oil and gasoline. That's good news for everybody. Soon the signs of happier motoring will go up on Mexican roadsides. Gulf de Mexico will be the first. Published April 3, 2016

"I think it is the time to move on," Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell told members of Enroll America, a nonprofit that drives customers into the Obamacare marketplace. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The emerging disaster of Obamacare

Seven years on, the size of the Obamacare disaster is only beginning to emerge. Fixing it won't be as easy as some of the candidates for president seem to think it will be. The Congressional Budget Office estimated last week that over the next decade Obamacare will add $1.4 trillion to the nation's debt. Published March 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pro-Trump doesn’t mean racist

The scrawling of a pro-Trump message on a whiteboard affixed to a student's door so offended the Scripps College student body president that she sent a campus-wide email denouncing the incident as "racist" ("Scripps College student government censures 'racist' pro-Trump message," Web, March 28). The written phase: "#trump2016." Published March 31, 2016

In this photo released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif talks to an injured victim of Sunday's suicide bombing during his visit to a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 28, 2016. Pakistan’s prime minister on Monday vowed to eliminate perpetrators of terror attacks such as the massive suicide bombing that targeted Christians gathered for Easter the previous day in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 70 people. (AP Photo/Press Information Department via AP)

EDITORIAL: Growing terrorism in Pakistan

The radical Islamic massacre of 79 persons, many of them Christian children, on a playground on Easter Sunday changes things in Pakistan. The terrorists' choice of Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan and its most sophisticated, starkly demonstrates the threat of the new terrorism. Published March 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to accept Donald Trump

I've told my fellow Republicans and others repeatedly that my opinions on "The Donald" are still mixed. However, if I believed all the positives about him, we could be in for a very surprising and momentous victory should he win the presidency — particularly over a very flawed Democratic nominee. Published March 31, 2016

This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and threatens to bomb the U.S. at any moment, a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If North Korea did launch a nuclear-armed missile at an American city, could the Pentagon's missile defenses shoot it down beyond U.S. shores? (Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency via AP) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: North Korea, Iran share threat to the West

The Obama administration has one eye opened to recognize the genocide that radical Muslims are conducting against Christians in the Middle East, but the other eye remains closed to the threat that North Korea poses to the West. Published March 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump handing the election to Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination but then lose to Hillary Clinton in the general election. He might severely damage the Republican Party and adversely impact Republicans in congressional and state races. His un-American campaign of political violence and hooliganism is reminiscent of 20th-century Nazi and communist dictators. Published March 30, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Disney threat anti-freedom

I am a big fan of Walt Disney and all that he accomplished in the field of entertainment. But I'm sure he would be adamantly against the recent threat by the company he founded to cease all filming in Georgia should the state enact a religious-liberty bill, the Free Exercise Protection Act ("Disney, Marvel threaten to boycott Georgia over religious freedom bill," Web, March 23). Published March 30, 2016

Florida police have charged Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier this month involving a reporter. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Hard times on the trail

Hitting someone is not nice, and in the hot house of a political campaign where sensibility if not sense thrives, pushing someone is a no-no. So is touching, which may be the greater crime. All should all strive for civility and good manners at all times, and that applies to officials of presidential campaigns. Published March 30, 2016