THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Australia’s migrant tide

The immigrant surge throughout the world is not just south to north. Migrants are surging to Australia, too, and Australia's highest court has ordered a temporary respite from a migrant threat like that in Europe and North America. Published February 7, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz not right for U.S.

I have always believed the people of Iowa to generally be good-natured, decent individuals who make up the heartland of America. That image has sustained a hard hit with the stunning and sad selection of Republican candidates Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump as front-runners in the Iowa presidential caucuses. Published February 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Article V convention for change

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio is correct: The federal government is out of control ("Marco Rubio amplifies call for constitutional convention, courts conservative voters"). Our national debt will soon be $20 trillion, and that does not even include the close-to-$100-trillion in unfunded liabilities. Published February 4, 2016

EDITORIAL: Americans pay for Obama’s global warming scheme

"Doomsayer" is probably not on Al Gore's resume but it's as descriptive as "almost president." It perfectly describes the attention he has attracted in the decade since he took to the stage at the Sundance Film Festival and set off global warming fears with his agitprop film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Published February 4, 2016

EDITORIAL: Myanmar looks for solution for retired elephants

Liberty and freedom are man's natural desires, but like everything else liberation is complicated, as man and elephant are learning in Myanmar, or Burma as it was called for centuries. Myanmar is making its way back into the real world after sitting it out in isolation for almost a hundred years. Published February 4, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taking undeserved credit

President Obama likes to get close to success and take whatever credit he can from it. However, his personal background concerning Colombia Published February 3, 2016

EDITORIAL: Middle East chaos threatens peace

Despite his deteriorating economy, Russia's Vladimir Putin is taking an increasingly aggressive tone of support for the Assad regime in Syria. He has tried to keep the Damascus corpse alive but can show little evidence of success against his opponents, some of whom have ties to international Islamic terrorism. Published February 3, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Racism still a U.S. problem

Those who say we no longer have a problem with race relations in the United States are either blind or ignoring the facts. In 1962, my mother became enraged when a cousin, who at the time was a police officer in Dodge City, Kan., said that the "problem" of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement could be solved by marching every black American into the deserts of Nevada and dropping a couple of hydrogen bombs. Published February 3, 2016

EDITORIAL: Iowa caucuses all about perception

Iowa isn't about actually winning, but persuading the political correspondents and prospective voters in the states following to think they see a winner. It's not even about delegates won, or the order in which a candidate finishes, but whether the result can be spun as a victory. Published February 3, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dislike of Ted Cruz just anger

As an intermediate-school teacher, I know that it is usually the best teachers who are the most disliked by the unsuccessful, unproductive students. These teachers don't take the easy path of avoiding the confrontation caused by attempting to correct the failure-producing attitudes of such students. Rather, they accept the disdain they receive for seeking to improve poor academics. Published February 2, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Wounded Warrior flap no rarity

It doesn't surprise me that seemingly legitimate charitable organizations, such as the Wounded Warrior Project, spend far too much money on Published February 2, 2016

EDITORIAL: Western ways matter

There's nothing like a fatal shooting to rile a community. The chain of events that led to the death of a rebellious rancher along a country road in Oregon last week is still under investigation, but for Americans who yearn for the wide-open spaces of the West, freedom's last refuge, the tragedy spells oppression. To them, Western lives matter. Published February 2, 2016

EDITORIAL: Marco Rubio breaks through in Iowa, Hillary Clinton’s weakness revealed

The Iowa caucuses rarely produce the winner in November, but they always produce panic in the camps of the losers. It's an exaggeration to say the caucuses Monday night decided anything but temporary winners, but winning is always better than losing. Published February 2, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump’s supporters in for surprise

Pundits have recently figured out that Donald Trump has tapped into the anger that the majority of Americans have toward the ruling class in both parties. They have also finally figured out that, as Victor Davis Hanson has pointed out, Americans find an emotional release in hearing a person express his anger on a national platform and across the media universe. Many people who have for so long felt voiceless feel that they are finally being heard. Published February 1, 2016

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton’s baggage to New Hampshire

The Clinton defense, first used by Bill and employed again now by Hillary, is getting a little frayed but it's difficult to give up something that has worked so well in the past. Published February 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton not best Democratic choice

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton really the best we can do for a Democratic presidential candidate? Frankly I am tired of all the wordsmithing and hair-splitting regarding her emails and the issue of those emails' classification. The information we are being fed by her campaign and its supporting pedants is all nonsense. There are but a few points that, in my view, are germane. Published February 1, 2016

EDITORIAL: Relief for the Little Sisters

One of the most important human rights issues has reached the Supreme Court, which will decide whether the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic order, has the right to dispense charity according to its own code. Published February 1, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Mahmoud Abbas no partner for peace

Thank you for your editorial "The Obama legacy" (Web, Jan. 21), which notes the Palestinian terror campaign of stabbings, car rammings and shootings that has killed 25 Israelis, an Eritrean, an American and a Palestinian, and observes that although there is "no evidence of central direction from the Palestinian leadership ... they are clearly the result of a vicious campaign of hatred and pleas to spill Jewish blood." Published January 31, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Memo to Ray Mabus: Butt out

Will the Obama administration's need to undermine tradition and efficiency in the United States never be satisfied? Now Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, whose own military background amounts to a very brief Navy enlistment, has decided that he knows more about managing the U.S. Marine Corps than the men who have dedicated their lives to just that ("Liberal Democrat slams 'ridiculous' Navy chief for forcing female integration on Marines," Web, Jan. 12). Published January 31, 2016

EDITORIAL: After Iowa caucuses, on to the real show

Soon the voters in Iowa will get a little relief from the invasion of candidates, their handlers, and the tsunami of reporters, pundits and assorted wise men who have trudged through snow and ice to make sure that no burp of the body politic goes unheard or unremarked. Iowans will get their state back, and to relish once more the silence of the cornfields. Published January 31, 2016