THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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EDITORIAL: Guns across the river
The District of Columbia government, having resolved all corruption and incompetence in its own ranks, is reaching now beyond the city limits into cyberspace. Published August 9, 2013
EDITORIAL: Another week, another holiday
President Obama leaves for Martha's Vineyard on Saturday for still another vacation. The Government Accountability Institute calculates that Mr. Obama spends twice as much time at leisure than on policy briefings. Published August 9, 2013
EDITORIAL: ‘Fire burn, and cauldron bubble’
Evangelical atheists think they have another chance to spread a little sawdust for a revival of their creed when the Supreme Court returns in October. Published August 8, 2013
EDITORIAL: Get a horse
The apt symbol of the Obama presidency is the Chevy Volt, stalled on the open road. Like Barack Obama, the Volt presented itself to the public with the lofty promise of a better future, but delivered a future not as good as the past and present. Published August 8, 2013
EDITORIAL: The president’s reset button
This is what President Obama's "reset" of relations with Russia looks like. He abruptly canceled plans Wednesday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month when he goes to Russia for the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg. Published August 8, 2013
EDITORIAL: ‘What, me worry?’
Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's know-nothing icon, had the ready attitude toward disasters about to befall him: "What, me worry?" This could be the motto of congressional Democrats, who bring the same lackadaisical attitude to issues of government debt and federal spending. Published August 7, 2013
EDITORIAL: Abandoning friends
As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan wind down, the Obama administration must take care not to leave friends in the lurch. Published August 7, 2013
EDITORIAL: When God and Caesar collide
The San Juan Islands lie off the northwest coast of Washington state, remote and pristine in their natural beauty of mountains, sandy beaches and fir and pine forests. Published August 7, 2013
EDITORIAL: Congress gets a pass
Everyone's dying to get off Obamacare. Public and private unions want nothing to do with it. Nancy Pelosi finagled waivers for dozens of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. Published August 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: $15 billion in the hole
An empty hole in the ground dug at a cost of $15 billion is the very definition of government waste. Published August 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: Visa vandals
The Lincoln Memorial, the Washington National Cathedral and other monuments in the nation's capital have fallen victim to lax immigration policies. Published August 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Wisconsin model
The nation's governors met in Milwaukee over the weekend to share tips about what to do to make their states better. Some of the governors had more to tell than others, but few more than Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin. Published August 5, 2013
EDITORIAL: Contempt for the law
President Obama doesn't like the law ordering illegal aliens deported, so Border Patrol agents were ordered not to obey the law. They would be punished if they did. Published August 5, 2013
EDITORIAL: The paper recovery
This sounds like good news. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the unemployment rate dropped from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent in July as the economy expanded with 162,000 jobs. Published August 5, 2013
VIDEO: Emily Miller on ‘Fox and Friends’ about Democrats a war on women
Tucker Carlson and Alisyn Camerota of Fox News interviewed Emily Miller about whether Democrats are waging the real war on women by refusing to condemn the behavior of Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer and San Deigo Mayor Bob Filner. Published August 4, 2013
EDITORIAL: Dr. Obama’s poison pill
There's scant agreement on anything on Capitol Hill, so when a consensus comes along, the smart thing to do is seize it. Published August 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: A pipeline to prosperity
Too bad that "Keystone" isn't a solar field or a wind farm in the Mojave Desert. If it were, the White House could boast of the wealth and jobs such a project would create. But Keystone XL Pipeline is more than a fantasy. Published August 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: Recovering lost freedom
The government's ability to track 316 million Americans without a warrant rests on a flimsy premise upheld Tuesday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges, intentionally or not, move us into the shadow of the total surveillance society. Published August 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: We’ll drink to that
Another court has taken the fizz out of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's attempt to put everyone on the soda wagon. He just doesn't like sweet stuff. Published August 1, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bank robbery in California
The Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London, Conn., decision in 2005 made eminent domain a threat to everybody, and since then local governments have been seizing houses from plain folks and turning them over to developers in return for increased property-tax revenues. Published August 1, 2013
