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EDITORIAL: Homeland insecurity, squandering billions
The Department of Veterans Affairs may be the nation's most dysfunctional government agency, but the Department of Homeland Security runs a close second. Published June 18, 2014
EDITORIAL: Feds patently wrong about the Redskins name
White man truly speak with forked tongue. In a ruling as slippery as Bill Clinton's famous definition of what the meaning of the word "is" is, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decided Wednesday to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademarks. Published June 18, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Watergate pales next to many ‘Obamagates’
I can't remember how long it took during Watergate (which was a walk in the park compared with the current administration's scandal-of-the-week policy) for the first person involved to resign. Published June 18, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Songwriter act levels playing field
As a songwriter, I must respectfully disagree with the recent editorial, "Songwriter Equity Act inequity" (Web, June 6), as it utterly fails to capture the experience of a modern-day songwriter. Published June 18, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: NBA is free market at simplest
The very essence of our prosperity and its resultant liberty has been the product of our free-market economy. Yet, most Americans do not understand how this works. Published June 18, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No Iraq aid that helps Iran
President Obama has created yet another dilemma that, in my opinion, could have been avoided if he'd left a small military force in Iraq to keep the peace and deter terrorists. Published June 18, 2014
EDITORIAL: Abandoning orphan earmarks
Earmarks feed the congressional favor factory. They're the reward House and Senate leaders hand out to members in return for toeing the party line. Published June 17, 2014
EDITORIAL: Straight shooting from Rick Perry, Southern Baptists
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas caused a rustle and a stir in a San Francisco audience the other day when he answered a question about whether he thinks homosexuality is a genetic disorder. His answer wasn't particularly out of the ordinary. Published June 17, 2014
EDITORIAL: The EPA’s Houdini bureaucrat
The ghost of master magician Harry Houdini lives at the Environmental Protection Agency, where agency officials routinely make common sense and tax money disappear without a trace. Published June 17, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More ‘Chicago way’ shenanigans
It should come as no surprise that at this late date the Internal Revenue Service reveals that two years' worth of Lois Lerner's emails to officials in other departments of the government have disappeared. This is the "Chicago way." Published June 17, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: How Obama could’ve spent Father’s Day
Last weekend, I felt like the president of the United States as I played golf, watched the U.S. Open and generally enjoyed the Father's Day weekend. Published June 17, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Shame on N.Y.’s mayor, police commissioner
Every politician has his little flunky. New York Mayor City Bill de Blasio brought Police Commissioner Bill Bratton along with him in the city to end stop-and-frisk. Commissioner Bratton kisses up to Mr. de Blasio the way Vice President Joe Biden kisses up to President Obama. Published June 17, 2014
EDITORIAL: IRS: ‘The dog ate the emails’
Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary, took the blame four decades ago for a mysterious 18-minute gap in an audio tape-recording of what was going on in the Oval Office during the Watergate investigation. Published June 16, 2014
EDITORIAL: Calling off the speech police
Some politicians upset by the Supreme Court's reinvigorated defense of the First Amendment just can't resist the temptation to use the courts to shut down the free speech of others. Published June 16, 2014
EDITORIAL: NASA’s ‘Rocket to Nowhere’ could hijack private spaceflights
NASA lives in the shadow of its former glory, the remembrance of the days when the nation held its breath every time a rocket left Cape Canaveral and cheered every touchdown. Published June 16, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Hope and change’ at the border
Americans need to know what is happening at our southern border: Border patrol agents are being used as baby sitters of illegal-alien children flooding into the country. Published June 16, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Planned Parenthood gets even worse
If past videos showing evidence of corruption at Planned Parenthood didn't get your attention, perhaps the latest undercover videos by Live Action will. Published June 16, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t fall for teachers union propaganda
I recently received a beautifully formatted 10-page bit of propaganda from the Montgomery County Education Association extolling the supreme talents of politicians supported by MCEA union bosses. Published June 16, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time for Democrats to reverse course
Are Democrats finally getting tired of the lies and ineffective policies their leaders proffer on a regular basis? Published June 13, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fundamental change, but not for the better
Barack Obama told us he wanted to fundamentally change America — but he didn't tell us he wanted to fundamentally change it for the worse. Published June 13, 2014