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Emily Miller on CNN. August 19, 2013.

VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN about N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s political future (Aug. 19, 2013)

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin interviewed Emily Miller about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political future after vetoing gun-control measures but signing a ban on gay-conversion therapy. Ms. Miller, the senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times, discussed her column "N.J. Gov. Chris Christie does a 180 on gun control, vetoes radical bills." The video of the segment is below. Published August 19, 2013

Illustration School Choice by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Five cheers for choice

For many liberals, "choice" begins and ends with abortion. This inconsistency is where advocates of education reform should challenge the defenders of the status quo, which nearly everyone agrees has failed miserably. Published August 19, 2013

Illustration Obamacare Hurts Religion by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Pastors with only a prayer

The familiar folk wisdom, "be careful what you pray for, you might get it," is particularly poignant for the United Methodist Church, one of the largest and oldest of the mainline denominations and the church home of, among others, George W. Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Published August 19, 2013

**FILE** American Airlines and US Airways jets prepare for flight at a gate at the Philadelphia International Airport on Feb. 14, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama delays a merger

Just when American Airlines was about to emerge from bankruptcy and proceed to a merger with USAir, the control tower calls them back to the terminal. The Justice Department says not so fast. Published August 19, 2013

Illustration: Union NLRB

EDITORIAL: The ‘new’ NLRB

President Obama's environmental regulations and tax increases are job killers enough, and now employers must also deal with a fully reconstituted National Labor Relations Board, with two new Democrats and two new Republicans. Published August 16, 2013

Illustration School Choice by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Bowing to Washington

Being trapped in a close place without an exit is the stuff of many a nightmare. For public school students in Huntsville, Ala., home to a NASA installation and lots of defense-related industries, it's a living nightmare. Published August 16, 2013

“It’s an invitation for our side. ... You have to be careful. If you talk about taxes, [Republicans] run for the hills. But if you talk about revenue and tax reform, they sit still for that conversation.” - Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The bully in the U.S. Senate

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois thinks the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups hasn't gone far enough, and he wants to help. He's doing some bullying of his own. Published August 16, 2013

** FILE ** Chelsea Clinton speaks at the third day of the Clinton Global Initiative University conference at Gateway STEM High School in St. Louis on April 7, 2013. (Associated Press/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden)

EDITORIAL: Daughters in the pipeline

John Adams and his son, John Quincy, were the second and sixth presidents. George H.W. Bush and son George W. were 41 and 43. Published August 15, 2013

** FILE ** A clown wears a mask intended to look like President Obama at the Missouri State Fair. The rodeo announcer asked the crowd if anyone wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to a spectator. “So then everybody screamed. ... They just went wild,” said Perry Beam, who attended the event at the state fair in Sedalia, Mo., on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. Fair officials apologized, calling the display inappropriate and disrespectful. (AP Photo/Jameson Hsieh)

EDITORIAL: Fun at the Missouri rodeo

A rodeo clown put on a Barack Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair on Saturday night in Sedalia and playfully and tastelessly asked the crowd whether they wanted to see the president run down by a bull. Published August 15, 2013

A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shouts during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers Wednesday to clear two sprawling encampments of supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president in Cairo, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

EDITORIAL: Chaos in Cairo

Like it or not, America is the only superpower. When there's trouble in the world and a president or prime minister calls 911, an American answers. When America is timid and fainthearted, the consequences thousands of miles away can be catastrophic. Published August 14, 2013

** FILE ** New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a news conference in San Francisco, Friday, June 14, 2013. Mayor Bloomberg and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced they are sponsoring a pair of technology summits to be held in each of their cities in the next year. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The check-box felon

Politicians scared of legal guns lost their attempt to disembowel the Second Amendment, but they're not giving up. President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City are in the gun-control game for the long haul, advocating reforms that sound like common sense until they become law. Published August 14, 2013

Illustration: Voter ID by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Zombies in Maryland

Zombies, who just won't stay in the graveyard, are back with us again, and not just on the screen in "World War Z" and "The Walking Dead." It turns out that 1,100 of the dearly departed are active in Maryland politics. Published August 14, 2013

Illustration: Washington scandals by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: A summer of long, hot scandal

The targeting of conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service is old news. We have that on the word of the Internal Revenue Service, for whatever the word of the IRS is worth. Published August 14, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has set a goal, branded "Sustainable D.C.," of making 100 percent of District waters fishable and swimmable by 2032, yet there is cause to question his willingness to allow DDOE to do its job. The clean rivers initiative is a belated attempt to reverse a decades long trend of stormwater runoff that leads to sewage overflow. (The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: The heckler’s veto

Donnie McClurkin, the three-time Grammy-winning black gospel singer, was disinvited by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray from a city-sponsored concert Saturday night. Published August 13, 2013

Illustration Global Warming by John Camejo for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Wearing out words

Organizing for Action, President Obama's campaign machine declared Tuesday "climate change day," encouraging everyone to pepper skeptical members of Congress at town-hall meetings with questions about why they won't raise taxes to avert the doom of the planet. Published August 13, 2013

** FILE ** Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

EDITORIAL: Pot Holder

Aging hippies have waited a lifetime to achieve their reefer dreams. Several states are relaxing marijuana laws, and the White House is right behind. Published August 13, 2013

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

EDITORIAL: Hot air in Las Vegas

What happens in Las Vegas, despite what they say, does not always stay in Las Vegas. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has invited Democratic politicians and liberal activists to gather there Tuesday to sit still for sermons about global warming and to think big thoughts about clean energy. Published August 12, 2013

** FILE ** Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Recovering lost prosperity

President Obama says he has a "Better Bargain for America" to rescue the feeble housing market. He offers the usual clever turns of phrase, but it's just repackaging of the same government intervention that created the subprime-mortgage crisis in the first place. Published August 12, 2013

** FILE ** Oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the water with clouds reflected in the sheen on Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

EDITORIAL: Shark attack in the Gulf

After the flood, the deluge. More than three years after the Deep Horizon oil spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico, life would have almost returned to normal but for the feeding frenzy of the lawyers eager to take a bite out of the BP settlement fund. Published August 12, 2013

Illustration: Flex fuel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Imaginary optimism

Only in Washington would it take eight months to come up with a production quota for an imaginary product. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is all too real, announced this week the latest renewable-fuel standards, which were due in January. Published August 9, 2013