THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Vote for freedom in November

While much media focus has been directed at the demise of a leading Republican candidate, the Democratic policies destroying our country have been given a pass. Let's not forget that Democrats were the party of slavery, founders of the Ku Klux Klan, and the only party ever to nominate and confirm a KKK member (Hugo Black) to the Supreme Court. Published March 22, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Greatest threat: Leftist ideology

Since the eras of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, the insidious liberal Democrat ideology has tightened its iron grip on America by infecting our government, our schools, our news media and the entertainment industry. All of this has had extensive influence over our society. Published March 22, 2016

EDITORIAL: Successes of U.S. policy toward Cuba

President Obama's open hand to the Castro brothers in Havana has been met with a clenched fist. Only the naifs at the White House could have been surprised. Cubans protesting the most repressive regime in the history of the Western Hemisphere have been beaten and abused in answer to the visit of the president, and on camera. Published March 22, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump support is pro-Hillary Clinton tool

I am a libertarian with no party affiliation, and I am quite concerned about what Donald Trump's candidacy is doing: dividing the GOP and damaging constitutional conservatism. Published March 21, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Race is no basis for judgment

The Supreme Court will ultimately recognize that race can never be used by public schools in making admissions decisions. However, Justice Scalia's death may have postponed that recognition. Published March 21, 2016

EDITORIAL: Next president will have to undo Obama’s damage

There are important lessons for the United States in the arrest in Brussels of one of the planners of the Paris massacre of last November. Salah Abdeslam was arrested in the Belgian capital's notorious, largely Muslim quarter of Molenbeek, where he had lived openly, free of worry about arrest. Published March 21, 2016

EDITORIAL: Democrats killing oil boom on Atlantic Coast

Barack Obama has once more applied the knife to the backs of conventional energy producers, and Hillary Clinton is leading the cheers. The Democrat in the White House and his waiting surrogate for his third term have renewed their commitment to inflicting mortal damage on the nation's energy industry. Published March 21, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Marco Rubio’s exit a loss for America

After reading "Marco Rubio drops out of presidential race after humiliating loss in Florida" (Web, March 15) my heart broke for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and his family. I never stopped believing in the young senator, foolishly predicting he would eventually break through. Published March 20, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump a dangerous demagogue

Donald Trump has been given and continues to be given hundreds of millions of dollars of free air time. He's received many times more minutes than the other Republican candidates combined. He is, in effect, the creation of the media, and has become what is referred to as a demagogue. Published March 20, 2016

EDITORIAL: Failed Robert Bork nomination looms over Supreme Court

Robert Bork was a renowned legal scholar who, despite having been a Yale Law School professor, U.S. solicitor general, an acting attorney general, and a justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, never made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Published March 20, 2016

EDITORIAL: A food label to frighten

Eating "organisms" evokes an image of a mouthful of squirmy things harvested from a petri dish. Eating "genetically modified organisms" sounds even worse. Those are the thoughts that skeptics of genetically modified organisms, or GMO foods, mean to trigger if they can force the food industry to put GMO labels on their healthy food. Published March 20, 2016

EDITORIAL: Republican elite can’t decide what to do about Donald Trump

Donald Trump has clearly put the cat among the pigeons. The Republican establishment, as the party's elites don't like to be called, can't decide what to do about the power of the Trump tornado. They're suddenly getting a taste of what impotence feels like, learning that money can't buy love. Published March 17, 2016

EDITORIAL: Obama bested by Vladimir Putin’s Syria exit

Vladimir Putin is the dancing master. His dance is the kasatka, the Russian folk dance which tests the dancer's balance and stamina, requiring him to crouch and fling out each leg and foot in turn, testing his balance and the nerves of those around him. It's not a dance for the weak or distracted, and Mr. Putin is dancing the kasatka around Barack Obama. Published March 17, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Renewable Fuel Standard win for all

The oil industry does not want to see renewable fuels such as ethanol succeed ("Renewable Fuel Standard deceit," Web, Feb. 8). That's why it's spreading misinformation whenever it can to undermine public support for alternative energy and convince folks that that we can frack our way to prosperity. Published March 17, 2016

Powerball numbers for Wednesday, March 16 revealed

Powerball continued to build Wednesday night as the numbers were drawn for a $70 million jackpot two weeks after the last big prize was won. Published March 16, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hollywood’s no role model

I was more interested in why "Stars are aligned against Trump" (Page 1, March 11), a propaganda piece, was front-and-center on the Times' page one than I was in the anti-American "stars" of Hollywood who were photographed. When you boil it down to the dregs in the bottom of the barrel, who cares what Hollywood thinks about Donald Trump? Published March 16, 2016

EDITORIAL: President Obama’s collateral damage of illegal immigration

President Obama regards himself as a conjurer of deep thoughts, a living example of "The Thinker" immortalized in the Rodin sculpture. Neither the bronze ponderer will budge from his stone nor the president from his radical blueprint for a new America. Published March 16, 2016

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Easter more pagan than Christian?

There is no holiday that is as Jesus-centric as Passover. The blood of the unblemished lambs caused the angel of death to pass over the homes of the Israelites; in like manner, the shed blood of the sinless Jesus saves Christians from the Second Death. Published March 16, 2016

EDITORIAL: A primary lesson for Republicans

No one knows better how not to campaign for president than the chief strategist for Mitt Romney, who blew his very good chance to defeat Barack Obama in 2012. Mr. Romney, a genuinely nice guy, forgot baseball legend Leo Durocher's famous admonition that "nice guys finish last." Published March 16, 2016