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EDITORIAL: Bungled prosecution gives Benghazi defendant constitutional protection
More than Hillary Clinton's missing emails is bedeviling the legal system in the aftermath of the outrage at Benghazi. A Libyan terrorist, accused in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound, asked a federal judge Monday in Washington to dismiss the charges and send him home to Libya. Ahmed Abu Khattala says his capture and jailing in the United States, pending a trial, is a "government conspiracy." Published August 5, 2015
EDITORIAL: Iran deal exposed as fraud
President Obama is beginning to sound like a president running scared. He used "a major speech" Wednesday in Washington to defend his indefensible "deal" with Iran, and compared Republican critics of the deal to the hard-liners in Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry used a cleaned-up barnyard vulgarism in a magazine interview to describe what these Republican critics are trying to do to the poor ayatollahs in Tehran. Published August 5, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What about Republicans’ abandoned bills?
Contrary to popular belief, the filibustering of the Repubicans' initial attempt to stop federal funding to Planned Parenthood is no loss at all ("GOP fails in first bid to cut off Planned Parenthood funding," Web, Aug. 3). Published August 5, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for new blood in House, Senate
Senator Hatch's op-ed illustrated in many ways what is wrong with people such as him: those who have no idea what is going on in this country yet have been Washington politicians for decades ("When tough talk roils the decorum of the Senate," Web July 28). They live in their own little dream world. Published August 5, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lee Highway name nonsense
Last week I heard on the news that someone had filed a suit in Arlington to have the name Jefferson Davis removed from the major highway, U.S. Route 1. Published August 4, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obama hides evidence of Castro cruelty
The French, as they usually do, have a word for it: the tendency of a man to judge problems solely on the basis of his professional skills. The French call this "deformation professionelle." Published August 4, 2015
EDITORIAL: Clean Power Plan an assault on low-income Americans
If Barack Obama could summon the will to make war on America's enemies abroad with the enthusiasm he makes war on Americans at home, joy all sublime would descend on the mountains, dells and every fruited plain. But the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version Monday of a new scheme to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants in 49 states, and it's a shocker. The fruit on the plain is likely to shrivel. Published August 4, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 2016 election will show U.S. sentiment
My granddaughter recently visited New York, where she saw the stage version of "An American in Paris," the play based on the 1928 George Gershwin poem of the same name. Published August 4, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Illegals need no ‘air quotes’
A visa grants permission to visit a country under clearly defined terms "Questions for the debate," Web, Aug. 3). Staying beyond the terms of one's visa is illegal. Consequently, anyone here past the terms of his or her visa is here illegally — and hence is an "illegal" immigrant. Published August 4, 2015
EDITORIAL: Who could replace Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate?
For any candidate to have an authentic chance to be the presidential nominee of either party, the voters have to envision him (or her) as sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. If they can't do that, John Sears, who managed Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign, observed, the hopeful candidate will never make it. Mr. Sears called this the candidate's first test. Published August 3, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran a perilous situation now
Iran has waged war against America since 1979. It has killed more than 500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many more around the globe. Published August 3, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Orrin Hatch goes along to get along
Recently in The Washington Times Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, sought to chastise Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, for remarks the latter made on the floor of the Senate ("When tough talk roils the decorum of the Senate," Web, July 28). Mr. Hatch did not name Mr. Cruz in his diatribe, but it was clear to whom he was referring. Published August 3, 2015
EDITORIAL: Republican elites want to ignore immigration
The debate, such as it is, over illegal immigration gets curiouser and curiouser, and more confusing. Donald Trump provided the gotcha! moment, with a statement off the top of his head damning the quality of Mexican immigrants. Published August 3, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: War with terrorists now or later?
Back on Sept. 11, 2001, the existence of a war with radical Islamic terrorism was never more obvious. Today the radical left and misguided liberals believe we can slow-roll the advance of peace by appeasement and delay while these same radical Islamic elements strike us in our homeland and gain strength abroad. Published August 2, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Deal only a win for Iran
Yes, Mrs. Pelosi, I have read the nuclear agreement with Iran ("Pelosi on Iran deal opponents: 'Have they even read it?'" Web, July 30). Published August 2, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Earn in America, invest in America
There seems to be a recurring theme with our big companies investing their funds in foreign countries that have better economic pictures than our own nation. Published August 2, 2015
EDITORIAL: Reverence for human life should outweigh reverence for Cecil
Reverence for life is a good thing, but some people who revere lion life have got their priorities on crooked. Human life is important, too. The Media Research Center observes that the television networks have devoted far more time to the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe than to revelations that Planned Parenthood has been dissecting aborted human babies and auctioning the baby parts to the highest bidders here in the United States. Published August 2, 2015
EDITORIAL: Mike Huckabee takes heat over Iran comments
Political rhetoric is dangerous in the hands of careless writers and speakers. Reaching for Hitler as an analogy for contemporary villainy is particularly misleading. Hitler has been sui generis, one of a kind, since Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, rivaled in modern times only by Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Mullahs, evil as some of them may be, don't count. They're bush leaguers. Published August 2, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Riveting review of ‘The Billion Dollar Spy’
Joseph C. Goulden's review of David Hoffman's "The Billion Dollar Spy" (BOOK REVIEW: 'The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal,'' Web, July 5) gives a riveting account of how the CIA recruited a Soviet agent named Adolf Tolkachev. Published July 30, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: IRS scandal is Democrats, doing what they do best
After reading the front-page article "GOP calls on Obama to fire IRS chief" (July 28), I was amused by the response of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, to the suggestion that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen be sacked for obstructing the investigation into politically motivated targeting of conservative groups. Published July 30, 2015
