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EDITORIAL: Electric dreaming
Many children woke up on Christmas Day to find to their delight an electric car under the tree. Whether a slot car on a figure-eight track or a remote-controlled racer that can do jumps off the driveway, these classic toys are always an appreciated gift for boys and young men. Published December 25, 2013
EDITORIAL: Another failing Obamacare gimmick
Healthcare.gov continues to be the public face of the failure of Obamacare even as the legal foundations of the health care scheme continue to shatter. Earlier this week, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the District of Columbia appealed a federal court ruling that a certain Catholic college is entitled to protection against the health care law's abortion and contraceptive mandates, and others aren't. The archbishop's appeal is likely to be the strongest challenge to Obamacare yet. Published December 25, 2013
EDITORIAL: A prayer to the Prince of Peace
My Fellow Americans - here in Washington, in your homes across the nation and abroad - and in our country's service around the world: Published December 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Christmas effect
Christmas continues to cheer our increasingly secularized and benighted world, and this sets on edge the teeth of its relentless detractors. Consider the length to which the Grinches go to persuade us that Christmas is nothing special. Proving a negative is always a challenge, but arguing there's no original cause for the Christmas effect is a hopeless exercise. Despite the war on the celebration of the birth of the Christ, the spirit of the season endures. Published December 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: Christmas Bells
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Published December 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: The inequality playbook
The Democratic playbook for 2014 is out, and to nobody's surprise Obamacare has been relegated to the back pages. The year's hottest topic will be income inequality, which the left hopes to use to create a wedge between go-along-to-get-along Republicans and limited-government Tea Party types. President Obama calls it the "defining issue." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says "there's no greater challenge this country has than income inequality, and we must do something about it." Published December 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Down and still dirty
Monday is the last day to enroll in Obamacare, and the Healthcare.gov website remains a disaster of catastrophic proportions. Many of those who were unceremoniously deprived of insurance they were promised they could keep scrambled to get a replacement at lunchtime on Friday. They were greeted with the unfriendly message: "We're currently performing scheduled maintenance. Please try again later." Another message asked those still trying to sign up for an Obamacare email list. Delay seized the site for hours. Published December 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: A Republican winner for ‘14
Sometimes today's loser is tomorrow's winner. Virginia state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain conceded last week that a conveniently discovered ballot box had given his Democratic opponent a slim edge in the recount for attorney general. As a conservative Republican who performed better than the rest of his party on Election Day, Mr. Obenshain might give serious thought to filing against Sen. Mark R. Warner, a Democrat, who must defend his U.S. Senate seat next November. Published December 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Ducking tolerance
The left is all in favor of free speech — until someone offers a contrary opinion. Phil Robertson of TV's wildly popular "Duck Dynasty" offended the homosexual lobby this week with remarks about his religious faith. Published December 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: Red faces at the White House
When a president comes face to face with something painful and difficult, demanding his leadership, his first instinct is to toss it to a committee, usually called "a task force," which suggests urgency and no nonsense. Presidents like this solution because it carries no risk that he will actually have to do anything. Imagine the surprise this week at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when the president's handpicked "review group" of government insiders produced a 300-page report that concluded the government's snooping is out of hand. Published December 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: Doc Coburn’s government diet
Washington's in no mood for cutting spending. The Senate on Wednesday voted 64-36 to abandon restraint and boost spending by $65 billion. Supportive senators argued that the federal government has been on a starvation diet over the past year, and it urgently needs to gorge one more time. Thanks to Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, we know that's not the case. Published December 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: A man for 2016
Jerry Brown is tanned, rested and ready. The leader of the nation's most populous state is mulling another bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. We need not concern ourselves with the particulars of an election campaign three years hence, but we observe that while comparisons are odious, Mr. Brown might be a breath of fresh air in an atmosphere reeking of dinosaur breath. Published December 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: Spies unlike us
There's a new national hero among us. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of the District of Columbia last week punched out the National Security Agency, a bully grown far too big for its britches. He called the NSA's bulk collection of telephone records "almost Orwellian" and possibly "unconstitutional." Published December 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: Amnesty by another name
The culture of lawlessness is alive and well in Washington. President Obama sets the tone with his health care law revisions, rewriting the legislation without bothering Congress. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, urges the president to ignore inconvenient provisions of the immigration law. She tells Telemundo, the Spanish-language TV network, that just being in the country illegally isn't a sufficient reason to deport illegal aliens, the law be hanged. Published December 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: Navigating the swindle
When a cousin so distant that nobody in the family has ever heard of him sends an email to ask for your bank information so he can transfer a big inheritance, nearly everyone knows by now that he's not actually a relative, and there is no inheritance. The FBI and other police agencies try to put such thieves behind bars. The Obama administration hands them a check and calls them "navigators." Published December 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: Payback time in Wisconsin
Some liberals think it's payback time in Wisconsin. Conservatives have made substantial inroads in traditionally blue states, notably with the election and retention of Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, in Wisconsin. Democrats think this is unacceptable, and they're using a prosecutor and his power and authority to deliver the message. Published December 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: Marriage by reality TV
Those who warned that legalizing same-sex marriage would put us on a slippery slope toward bigamy, polygamy, polyandry and worse got it exactly right. A federal court on Friday decreed that everyone has the right to live like they do on reality television. A man can have four wives, four husbands, or four wives and four husbands or another combination if he can figure out one. Published December 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: Mending a bad bargain
All eyes now turn to the Senate to see what happens with the budget agreement stitched together by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a Republican, and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat. The measure, which raises spending limits by $63 billion, passed the House with not much more than a whimper of opposition last week. The Senate must fix the bill before it reaches President Obama's desk. Published December 16, 2013
EDITORIAL: Al Gore, soothsayer
Five years ago, Al Gore predicted the North Pole's ice cap would become a fond memory, a casualty of the raging inferno of global warming. The "entire North Polar ice cap will be gone in five years," he solemnly told a German TV audience. Published December 16, 2013
EDITORIAL: Fairness Doctrine 2.0
Fairness, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder, but some of President Obama's men are eager to tell everyone who's pretty and who's not. There's a buzz inside the Federal Communications Commission to deputize the government once more as the news cop, commissioning bureaucrats to decide what's fair and what isn't. We don't need a rocket scientist or even a shade-tree mechanic to see where that leads. Published December 16, 2013
