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EDITORIAL: The price of dignity
Frequent fliers can now pay $85 to avoid the indignity of a grope at the airport. (There's still no charge for a grope if that's what you want.) Published July 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: The threat to voting rights
Democrats in Congress are trying to restore the offensive provisions of the Voting Rights Act as though the Supreme Court had not declared them unconstitutional. Published July 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: Obama’s race speech
The White House podium conveys a great deal of power and influence to the man standing behind it. Teddy Roosevelt called it "the bully pulpit." Published July 23, 2013
EDITORIAL: Motown meltdown
Franklin D. Roosevelt called America to arms on the eve of war as "the arsenal of democracy," and he was talking mostly about Detroit. Its factories built the tanks, trucks and weapons that won World War II. Published July 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: The war on coal
We've had the war on inflation. The war on waste. The war on terror. There's even a war on women somewhere, though nobody has actually seen it. Published July 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Suffer the children (and free speech)
The faith-based Center for Pregnancy Concerns, a Baltimore nonprofit agency, sounds vaguely like an abortion clinic, but it definitely is not. Published July 22, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bernanke’s mood ring
Financial markets waited breathlessly to digest the latest pronouncement of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. They were anxious to learn how long he would keep printing greenbacks to "stimulate" the economy. Published July 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: No free advice in Kentucky
Somebody in the attorney general's office in Kentucky has been getting some bad advice. Jack Conway, a Democrat, is demanding that a popular columnist with advice on how to raise kids, take a "time-out." Published July 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: The search for a scapegoat
It turns out the "rogue agents" at the Internal Revenue Service field office in Cincinnati weren't quite so rogue after all. Democrats had hoped some low-level minion at the agency would serve as the fall guy in the expanding snooping scandal. Published July 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: The great Obamacare swindle
In less than three months, Obamacare's federal health insurance exchange will open and with it the flood of subsidies begins. The administration is clearly worried about how this grand scheme is going to come together, and it should be. Published July 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: An American original
Amar Gopal Bose was born 83 years ago in Philadelphia to a Bengali immigrant father and American mother, and he died July 12. He was born dissatisfied, as men with inventive minds are, and spent his life doing something about it. Published July 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: Eric Holder, you’re no Martin Luther King
Eric Holder, who gets more headlines than any other member of the president’s Cabinet, and usually for the wrong things, confuses celebrity with credibility. Published July 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: More corn for cars
Summer always means more pain at the gasoline pump. When the weather warms families hit the road on vacations and Economics 101 does the rest. The price of a gallon of gasoline goes up. Published July 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: Limiting free speech
An American street preacher was arrested the other day in London (or "assisting police with their investigation," in the famous British euphemism), for reciting in public a Scripture from the Bible. Published July 17, 2013
EDITORIAL: Slaying the IRS hydra
The Lernaean Hydra, the ancient serpent-like water beast with many heads, should be the symbol of the Internal Revenue Service. Every scandal at the IRS is followed by two more, like the hydra, that grew two heads for every one lost. The Hydra was a myth; the IRS, alas, is not, and it's out of control. Published July 17, 2013
VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN debating race and Zimmerman trial (July 16, 2013)
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin interviewed Emily Miller about racial issues related to the acquittal of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. Miller is senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times. The video of the two-segment interview is below. Published July 16, 2013
EDITORIAL: Argentina’s flour folly
Governments everywhere always think they know what's best for everyone. It's true here and true in Argentina, where the government decided to address the soaring cost of bread by banning the export of flour and wheat. Published July 16, 2013
EDITORIAL: A ‘blue slip’ for amnesty
House Republicans are desperate to find a way to kill the amnesty which the Senate dumped in their laps on their way home for the Fourth of July recess. Now that Congress is back in town the House must give this deeply wrong proposal the "blue slip." Published July 16, 2013
EDITORIAL: Demolishing marriage
It didn't take long for the ACLU to push the recent Supreme Court ruling on homosexual marriage to the extreme. The ACLU is filing challenges to overturn the will of voters and lawmakers protecting marriage in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Published July 15, 2013
EDITORIAL: A title fight in New York
Mixed martial arts fans want to knock out boxing as the country's most popular fighting sport. It looks like brawling to many of us, with tactics just short of eye-gouging and hair-pulling, but choosing is what competition is all about. Naturally, some people want the government to say whether it's "allowable." Published July 15, 2013
