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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reject Warner’s ‘bipartisan’ charade

"Mark Warner a reliable Obama foot soldier despite bipartisanship claims" (Web, Oct. 24) notes that Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat, showed some independence during his Senate term by supporting gun rights, which happens to be one of the few areas in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tolerates deviations from the party line. Published October 28, 2014

In this photo provided by the Discovery Channel, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., left and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. attempt to start a fire while surviving on a remote Eru island, part of the Marshall Islands for Discovery Channel’s Rival Survival. Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the political aisle spent a week marooned together on a remote island for a new reality show, "Rival Survival." (AP Photo/Discovery Channel)

EDITORIAL: Two ‘flakey’ senators bring reality TV to Congress

If there's anything America doesn't need, it's another reality-TV show. "Dance Moms" and "Teen Moms" just wrapped up their season, but now viewers can tune to "Rival Survival" to watch two U.S. senators pretend to rough it on an island in the South Pacific. Published October 28, 2014

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., talks about winning his re-election, at his office in Annandale, Va., on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

EDITORIAL: Scholte for Congress

Four years ago, President Obama urged Hispanics to vote to "punish our enemies." The strategy didn't work, and the Democrats lost 63 House seats. Rep. Gerald "Gerry" Connolly of Virginia, a Democrat, nearly became No. 64. Published October 28, 2014

In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, a doctor is silhouetted against a glass window while opening a door to leave an exam room after visiting a patient at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ** FILE *

EDITORIAL: Aborting the ‘doc fix’

Whether it's the Republicans or Democrats holding their heads high after the election results are tallied late Tuesday night, there will be important work to do when Congress returns from the battlefields at home. At a minimum, Congress must renew the government funding resolution that runs out Dec. 11. Published October 28, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for another revolution?

Our Founding Fathers realized that when an out-of-control monarch had reached the point of unrealistic dealings with his people, it was time for the good of all to separate from him. For many Christians in America, that day may well be approaching again. Published October 27, 2014

FILE - In this April 3, 2014 file photo giant machines dig for brown coal at the open-cast mining Garzweiler in front of a smoking power plant near the city of Grevenbroich in western Germany. The U.N. weather agency says carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013. The World Meteorological Organization says the heat-trapping gas blamed for global warming was at global concentrations of 396 parts per million last year. That is an increase of 2.9 ppm from the previous year, which the Geneva-based agency reported Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 was the biggest year-to-year change in three decades. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

EDITORIAL: Cooling the weather panic

It isn't easy to be a weather alarmist these days. The weather just won't pay attention to the learned professors. Published October 27, 2014

"The question of executive action, my friends, is a 'when' question," Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez assured attendees at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's convention, asserting that Mr. Obama still shares their values, despite having repeatedly put off thorny decisions on immigration. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Running against Obama’s postponed November surprises

Before Americans vote next week they deserve to know what President Obama has in store for them. The administration's near-term plans on health care, the environment, immigration, nominees for high office and other issues are shrouded in mystery. Published October 27, 2014

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a "Women for Maloney" event in Somers, N.Y., Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Clinton was there to support Rep. Sean Maloney who is running against Nan Hayworth in New York's 18th congressional district. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: The politics of pander

A secretary of state could, for example, spark a nasty international incident by mixing up the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, two nations that don't get along. The "reset button" in U.S.-Russian relations aside, Hillary Clinton's gaffes as the nation's chief diplomat didn't encourage many full-scale invasions. Published October 27, 2014

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses business leaders as he launches his "Make in India" initiative, prior to his scheduled departure to the U.S. in New Delhi, India. After months of criticism for not moving aggressively enough on promises of an economic overhaul, Modi, who led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide election win in May, announced a string of policies designed to kick-start Asia's third-largest economy. Over the past week, Modi has unveiled an overhaul of India's archaic labor laws, freed diesel prices from state control and signed an executive order promising to open India's coal industry to private companies. Modi, on promises that he would re-energize India's stumbling economy, faced a flurry of criticism after his July budget failed to provide new direction. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

EDITORIAL: Capitalism’s new fans

Capitalism, as a wise man who understood human frailty once said, is a bad economic system. Its only virtue is that it is better than all the other systems. Nevertheless, it has fallen from favor in Washington among those who don't understand human frailty. Published October 24, 2014

FILE - In this July 15, 2014, file photo, Camel cigarettes, a Reynolds American brand, are arranged for a photo in Philadelphia. The nation's second-biggest tobacco company informed employees Wednesday, Oct. 22, that beginning next year, the use of traditional cigarettes, cigars or pipes will no longer be permitted at employee desks or offices, conference rooms, hallways and elevators. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

EDITORIAL: Tobacco neo-Prohibitionists at the U.N.

The world, or a good part of it, struggles to cope with Ebola, and the United Nations continues to be obsessed by tobacco. The World Health Organization, meeting in Moscow, came up with a treaty imposing a global tax on cigarettes and delegates of 179 nations signed it. Published October 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Voter IDs ensure veracity, stop cheats

I have pondered this question for a while and asked many people who oppose voter ID laws very simply why they think such transparently sensible requirements are unfair or unreasonable. I have never received a coherent answer. Published October 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Call terrorist acts what they are

Thank you for using the word "terror" in your headline to describe the recent Palestinian attack at a Jerusalem train station that killed a 3-month-old Israeli girl, Haya Zissel Braun ("Baby killed, 8 wounded in terror attack at Jerusalem train stop," Web, Oct. 22). Published October 24, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Send Democrats a pro-life message

The front-page article "Democrat's attack ad resurrects pro-life gaffe" (Oct. 20) demonstrates very clearly why no human being of conscience can vote for any Democratic politician this year. Published October 24, 2014

In this March 6, 2014, file photo, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: Bongino for Congress

Democrats in Washington work hard to stoke the flames of resentment against "the rich." Rep. John Delaney is the richest Democrat in Congress, and he's locked in a surprisingly tight race in Maryland's 6th District against Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, the Republican challenger. Published October 23, 2014

People protest in front of the Whole Women's Health clinic Saturday, Oct/ 4, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting "a showdown" at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full implementation of a law that has closed more than 80 percent of Texas' abortion clinics. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Joel Martinez) MAGS OUT; TV OUT

EDITORIAL: Unholy coercion on abortion funding in California

California has been liberalism's bellwether for decades. Democrats in the Golden State have used their lock on the legislature to create social experiments. Now the left-coast liberals think Obamacare doesn't go far enough. Published October 23, 2014