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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pack up the Obama ‘board game’
How long will President Obama continue to treat Americans as mere pawns on his giant economic board game? This administration's swollen edition of the federal "how to play the game" rule book includes new laws, many in excess of a thousand pages. Published January 28, 2014
EDITORIAL: A weakened and hopeless Obama gives a State of the Union address
President Obama will coast down Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday evening, emerging from his limousine to address the nation as a leader with neither muscle nor momentum. Gone is all the hope that Mr. Obama brought to the House chamber for his first State of the Union speech five years ago, hope that he would bring transparency, bipartisanship and change to a capital stymied by partisan gridlock. Published January 27, 2014
EDITORIAL: European Union cooling to global-warming energy costs
In both America and Europe, the public was assured that banning popular incandescent light bulbs was for everyone's good. We ought to take note of what's happening on the other side of the Atlantic. The government that giveth, taketh. Published January 27, 2014
EDITORIAL: Medicaid expansion shortens McAuliffe-legislature honeymoon
The honeymoon, such as it was, is over. Terry McAuliffe moved into Virginia's governor's mansion little more than a fortnight ago, and already he's spoiling for a fight with the legislature. The Democratic bag man set the stage for his first clash with the Republican-dominated General Assembly over expansion of the state's Medicaid rolls under Obamacare. Published January 27, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Cyclists seek safety first
In his diatribe against cyclists, "Self-righteous cyclists peddling a car-free world" (Commentary, Jan. 23), R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. accuses cyclists of being angry, but he cites no examples. Published January 27, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP voters tired of the establishment
In every election cycle in the past 40 years, the Republican establishment has always attacked genuinely conservative candidates. Meanwhile, they try to pass off bigger-government, bigger-spending Republicans as conservative. Published January 27, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Discerning good from evil
The abortion debate should help Americans define the notions of good and evil by answering the following simple questions ("All is fair in love, war and politics: GOP attacks Dem claims of a 'war on women,'" Web, Jan. 22). Published January 27, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Left’s attacks on Tea Party reveal fear
Liberals and progressives will always let you know which organizations or individuals they fear most by whom they attack ("Chuck Schumer pushes plan to wipe out tea party," Web, Jan. 23). Published January 27, 2014
EDITORIAL: Chuck Schumer urges IRS to harass Tea Party groups into silence
Chuck Schumer, the Senate's No. 3 Democrat, thinks the Internal Revenue Service hasn't done enough to silence the Tea Party. Published January 24, 2014
EDITORIAL: Restoring the American dream
We can expect President Obama's big speech Tuesday night to be full of his usual class-warfare bloviation about the "lack of upward mobility" being the "defining problem of our time." Published January 24, 2014
EDITORIAL: Sochi’s specter of terrorism
Some of the athletes and tourists are growing wary of Sochi, the Russian city that will be the host for the Winter Olympic Games. They're afraid they're walking into a trap set by the Black Widows. Published January 24, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bikes can’t compete with cars
Being an avid cyclist all of my life, I think Emmett Tyrrell is onto something ("Self-righteous cyclists peddling a car-free world," Web, Jan. 22). Cyclists as a group have become an arrogant bunch of angry utopians. Published January 24, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Herring derelict on duty to defend state law
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has abandoned his client ("VA's top law official won't enforce voter-approved gay-marriage ban," Web, Jan. 23). The people of Virginia hired Mr. Herring to be their lawyer, to provide them with good counsel and to represent them to the best of his ability. However, Mr. Herring has decided that his views and wishes take precedence over those of his clients. Published January 24, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New military beard, attire policy unwise
As a retired chief warrant officer, I am appalled at the Pentagon's proposed change in the military dress policy. The Pentagon in its infant wisdom will now allow troops to have beards, wear beads and turbans and have some religious tattoos while in uniform. Published January 24, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop complaining, start acting
Nat Hentoff's frustration in his op-ed is understandable ("How we will be a self-governing republic again," Commentary, Jan. 15). Yet I think Mr. Hentoff and most other more conservative commentators are missing the mark as far as media bias is concerned. Published January 23, 2014
EDITORIAL: Hungry alligators await as the U.S. Treasury is running out of gimmicks
Republicans are retreating from Capitol Hill in mortal fear of being called nasty names, such as "obstructionist" and "partisan" and "naysayer," and the White House, which understands take-no-prisoner politics, is pressing the advantage. We're headed for more spending, and lots of it. Published January 23, 2014
EDITORIAL: The real dummies
When Jim DeMint left the U.S. Senate last year to run the Heritage Foundation, Gov. Nikki Haley tapped Rep. Tim Scott to replace him as the senator from South Carolina. It was a brilliant choice, one the state's voters are likely to endorse in a November special election. Published January 23, 2014
EDITORIAL: A ‘log cabin’ of gossamer
Obscurity is sometimes the place to find blind ambition. That's where Texas liberals found their latest great Democratic hope. Wendy Davis, a state senator of no particular distinction, captured the liberal imagination with a dramatic 11-hour filibuster last year in an attempt to preserve late-term abortions. Published January 23, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taxpayers have spoken on unions
Even after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made history by becoming the first governor to win his recall election, the liberals in Madison want to torpedo the people's mandate ("Payback time in Wisconsin," Comment & Analysis, Dec. 18). Published January 23, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Homosexual gene’ not established science
What baffles me concerning same-sex marriage is the total lack of any scientific evidence that homosexuality is a pre-birth condition and the judicial system treating heterosexuality and homosexuality as if they were the same as blue- or brown-eyedness. Published January 23, 2014
