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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bernie Sanders’ civil rights fight no matter to Black Lives activists
Presidential candidate Bernard Sanders was ironically booed off a stage last week by Black Lives Matter activists. Published August 12, 2015
EDITORIAL: Illegal immigration surges again with no Obama border security
What a difference a year makes. Or does it? Last summer the border was overrun by a surge of children from Central America, sent northward by their parents on the news that President Obama had relaxed enforcement of immigration laws. This summer the parents are making the hike, too. Published August 12, 2015
EDITORIAL: Loretta Lynch’s police praise counters ‘Ferguson effect’
Ferguson is still a tinderbox, but there's hope and change this time. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has distanced herself from her predecessor, Eric Holder. She praises cops for taking responsibility as peacemakers, and she isn't looking for opportunities to incite turmoil. She might start a process of healing the rift between minority communities and the men and women in blue who protect them. Published August 12, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan president, pursues China peace
Since President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan took office in 2008, the Republic of China in Taiwan (ROC) government has been striving for the improvement in cross-Strait relations ("Drifting toward crisis on Taiwan," Web, July 29). Over the past seven years the two sides across the Strait have held 10 rounds of talks and signed 21 agreements, attaining a level of peace and stability unprecedented in the past 66 years. Published August 11, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump, like President Obama, attacks challengers
There is something to be said about the first Republican debate hosted last week by Fox News and Facebook: Each of the candidates had a couple of strong topics he felt passionate about, but what we need is one person who is passionate about all topics that affect the American people. Published August 11, 2015
EDITORIAL: Gas prices low thanks to American oil industry ingenuity, not Obama
The good news is that it's been a year since the price of gasoline hit the skids. The even better news is that the price could stay down there for a long time. The oil "freight train," as it's called, is on a roll, and OPEC is on the ropes. American industrial ingenuity is taking consumers past the obstacles to affordable fossil fuels, including the obstacles President Obama throws down. In an era in when economic struggle seems to be the new normal, cheap gasoline is the one bright spot. Published August 11, 2015
EDITORIAL: Chuck Schumer braves Obama loyalists to reject Iran nuclear deal
Sen. Chuck Schumer's opposition to President Obama's Iran deal took considerable courage. The senator from New York knew that Mr. Obama brooks no dissent among his supporters and that his enforcers go after anyone who breaks ranks. Within hours, Obama loyalists were on the streets warning that the senator's "foolishness" would be an obstacle in his path to succeed Harry Reid as the party's leader in the Senate. The Obama loyalists suggested that Mr. Schumer's break wouldn't surprise anyone familiar with his record. He supported the invasion of Iraq, after all, and seems willing to put Israeli interests above those of his own country. Published August 11, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton, college education is no free ride to taxpayers
I read your article on Hillary Clinton's latest vote-grubbing idea to impose higher taxes and harder work on the rest of us in order to pay for college for those she believes deserve a free ride ("Hillary Clinton to propose $350 billion college affordability plan," Web, Aug. 10). I have an alternate, proven idea. Published August 10, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama lets evil, insanity flourish in America
Recent news has caused me great alarm that pure evil and insanity is taking over our nation. Published August 10, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obama abuses Canada with Keystone pipeline politics
Poor Mexico, as the Mexicans used to say of their country: "So far from God, so close to the United States." Now all the Mexicans are up here, no closer to God but pouring across the border, anyway. Now the aphorism could apply to Canada, often ignored by American newspapers and television networks. The Canadians just had the first debate of their national election, and it went almost unnoticed. Published August 10, 2015
EDITORIAL: EPA river accident happens with little environmentalist outrage
Figuring out who to blame when something goes wrong depends, as folk wisdom decrees, on whose ox is gored. That applies as well to oil spills and even contaminated water from abandoned copper and lead mines. Published August 10, 2015
The Washington Times print edition does some renovating
With fall right around the corner, The Washington Times is renovating some of its layouts so we can begin serving you some new features and content. Published August 10, 2015
EDITORIAL: Australia builds military against China’s aggression as U.S. Navy shrinks
There's a little good news from Down Under, and it comes when the West needs good news. Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia is moving up by three years the work on building a fleet of advanced frigates, at a cost of nearly $12 billion, expressed in American currency. It's part of his plan to raise defense spending to 2 percent of Australia's gross domestic product, up from 1.8 percent. This adds $2.6 billion a year to the current $23 billion military budget. Published August 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Killing coal caps Obama’s legacy of destruction
As promised in his 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama is marching non-stop down the road to eliminate coal power and prop up renewable energy, waving the flag of the global-warming hoax as he goes. This necessarily causes people's electricity rates to skyrocket. But hey, Mr. Obama is fulfilling his legacy. Published August 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Republican debate starts search for presidential winner
I don't have a horse in the GOP presidential race, so I was able to watch last Thursday night's debate free of any candidate envy. I made two observations. First, the good news: Front-runner Donald Trump wasn't the focus of everyone's attention (although he was asked the first question). Second, the bad news: While the questions about immigration and health care were meaningful, I would have liked more discussion about the two major issues facing the next president of the United States. Based on their limited answers, I still don't have a sense of who has the best plan to keep America safe and how he plans to do it, or who has the best economic plan for revitalizing the middle class and why it is the best plan. Published August 9, 2015
EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton ignores Republican debate, prefers money and ignorance
Hillary Clinton says she wasn't interested in the Republican debate last Thursday night. She had something more important to do. She got together with her Hollywood pals to collect money -- the Clintons are never too busy to pick the pockets of their friends -- and trade weighty thoughts with the intellectual heavyweights of Hollywood. Published August 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hiroshima bombing was necessary
Wesley Pruden's recent op-ed about Hiroshima is right on ("No second thoughts about a bomb for Hiroshima," Web, Aug. 3). I have a few points to add. Published August 6, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran deal worse than deal with Hitler
In his recent speech defending the Iran deal, President Obama gave it his best but came up short ("Obama: Critics of Iran nuclear deal 'selling a fantasy,'" Web, Aug. 5). Using speculation as fact, propping up straw-man arguments, engaging in highly partisan rhetoric and simply misrepresenting history, Mr. Obama failed to reach even the threshold of credibility. Published August 6, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obama’s discrimination on body-parts sale
Finally, someone on the left did the right thing, and spoke up against the killing of humans and harvesting their organs and sending them to market. Troubles arise, President Obama said, when "you are not able to see someone else as a human being." Indeed. This surely mortified the folks at Planned Parenthood. Published August 6, 2015
EDITORIAL: Harold Stassen was a true debater
The modern political debates, which aren't really debates at all but questions posed by media celebrities, have nevertheless pushed presidential candidates to the head of the class or consigned some of them to the sidelines, to be discarded flavors of the week. Published August 6, 2015
