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EDITORIAL: Showdown in Syria
War fever is exciting, thrilling even, and it's contagious. Where it stops, none can tell. Prudent presidents go slowly, keeping all options open, measuring their response twice to cut it once. Published August 28, 2013
EDITORIAL: Who needs Congress?
On her way out the door Tuesday as Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano lamented the failure of Congress to enact the Dream Act. It's not clear why it matters to her, considering the Obama administration has been acting as if a path to citizenship for illegal-alien youths had already passed through the legislative process. Published August 28, 2013
EDITORIAL: A spy’s regret
As the actress Jennifer Aniston once said, "There are no regrets in life, just lessons." Given recent developments, some members of Congress must be having second thoughts about their support for the National Security Agency's domestic spying operation. They now have their opportunity to show that they've learned their lesson. Published August 27, 2013
EDITORIAL: Yet another bailout
In Greek tragedy, the main character overestimates his abilities and brings ruin upon himself and his family. European politicians share this fatal pride, thinking they can continue borrowing from future generations without consequence. Their latest extravagance is a third bailout for Greece. Published August 27, 2013
EDITORIAL: Constitution-free campuses
Millions of young Americans are welcoming their first taste of freedom away from home as college classes begin around the country. The experience is soured on a growing number of campuses where administrators have set up a Constitution-free zone that denies basic freedoms. Published August 27, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Texas two-step
In a June 2009 speech intended to improve relations with the Arab and Muslim world, President Obama said he would "extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." The states get no such respect. Mr. Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, prefer the clenched fist. Published August 26, 2013
EDITORIAL: A bad picture in New Mexico
Cherished American values are under attack in New Mexico, where the state Supreme Court there ruled Thursday that a group of activists should be free to bully business owners into violating their religious beliefs. Published August 26, 2013
EDITORIAL: Spoiling the broth
Union organizers are hungry to add cooks, waiters and busboys to a shrinking roster of union members. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 came up with what it thought was a nifty idea to set up the Restaurant Opportunities Center in New York City to demonstrate that union-scale wages could be paid to restaurant workers and succeed. Published August 26, 2013
EDITORIAL: Unaccountable State
Sen. Susan M. Collins uses the terms "shocking" and "unacceptable" to describe the reinstatement of the four State Department officials who had been placed on administrative leave after last September's deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi. Published August 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: Camouflage cops
A SWAT team armed with machine guns and clad in the latest paramilitary gear descended earlier this month on a small organic farm in Arlington, Texas, looking for marijuana. Published August 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: An inconvenient chill
Al Gore and the climate doomsayers are at it again. The former vice president took to Twitter this week to declare the planet "under threat," and he already has a solution. Published August 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: A scramble for statehood
Maryland is a state so midnight blue that five counties in the westernmost part of the state want to peel away to become the 51st state. Well, why not? Published August 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Canadian Cruz
Agunfighter always shoots at the man he fears most. So the guns of the left have been aimed at Ted Cruz, the charismatic senator from Texas who's looking at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Published August 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Obama’s end run
Having the legislative branch enact laws, to be signed by the executive (as set out in the Constitution), has become a quaint concept under President Obama. Published August 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: When three’s a crowd
Come November, a German baby can be identified on birth certificates as male, female or "blank," a bureaucratic equivalent of "who knows?" Published August 21, 2013
EDITORIAL: Payback in London
Glenn Greenwald of the London Guardian has done more than anyone else in recent times to expose the dark and illicit underside of the surveillance state. Published August 21, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bearing the cross in Egypt
Political strife pushes passions past reason, and collateral damage to innocents is the rule. In Egypt, where civil war is brewing, the Muslim Brotherhood is conducting a pogrom against Coptic Christians. Published August 21, 2013
EDITORIAL: A big stick for a little guy
The Obama administration is running profitable businesses aground and their employees onto the unemployment line, but the owner of Lavabit, a small email-service provider in Texas, is threatened with criminal prosecution for closing its doors. Published August 20, 2013
EDITORIAL: ‘Fries and a union card with that?’
It's an idea that's a few onion rings short of a happy meal, but it's a whopper of a scheme from organized labor in its latest attempt to iron out the kinks in the union label. Published August 20, 2013
EDITORIAL: Obama’s bucket of worms
Obamacare is the gift that just keeps on giving - to its growing chorus of critics. President Obama blames the Republicans for trying to "gum up the works," but the "gum in the works" is the Juicy Fruit peeled on the morning after from his own bedpost. Published August 20, 2013
