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EDITORIAL: Bigger Brother
The government's snooping on Verizon customers ought to be a wake-up call for every American. The "security" bureaucrats have spent more than two decades laying the groundwork for the "right" of the government to keep tabs on everyone's movements and communications. Published June 7, 2013
EDITORIAL: Undiplomatic choices
President Obama wasn't kidding when he told the Russian president that he expected to have "more flexibility" in his second term. Published June 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: Playtime at Gitmo
Having "three hots and a cot," as the military calls meals and a bunk, and a warm Caribbean breeze apparently isn't enough for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Published June 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Dingell dynasty
Rep. John D. Dingell of Michigan becomes the longest-serving member of Congress on Friday, taking the title from the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. Published June 6, 2013
EDITORIAL: The end of a joy ride
The meter has run out for the insiders and their taxi monopoly in Milwaukee. A county judge has ordered city officials to issue permits for any qualified cab drivers who want to start a new business. The ruling is a small one, but it's a significant blow against the crony capitalism that threatens the economic freedom of the rest of us. Published June 5, 2013
EDITORIAL: The old abnormal
The ABC Family cable channel's slogan is "A different kind of family." The programs it offers are different, sure enough, different from a family almost any other American family would recognize, and certainly different from the channel's programming when it was founded in an earlier century by the Rev. Pat Robertson. Published June 5, 2013
EDITORIAL: Playtime for bureaucrats
Sequestration was supposed to have cut government to the bone. The White House canceled tours for schoolchildren and ordered the U.S. Navy to ground the Blue Angels in a public display of sackcloth and ashes. Published June 5, 2013
EDITORIAL: Rubber-stamp government
The trifecta of scandals bedeviling the Obama White House shares a common theme: high-level government officials put their signatures on a document and later disavow accountability for its contents. Call it government by rubber stamp. Published June 4, 2013
EDITORIAL: Pop guns, Pop Tarts and deadly pencils
The Calvert County, Md., kindergartner who was suspended last week for brandishing an unloaded cap gun on a school bus returned to class Monday. The crime wave in Calvert County is over. Published June 4, 2013
EDITORIAL: The cicadas are coming
They're almost here. With reports of sightings in Northern Virginia, the nation's capital is bracing for the inevitable return of the moulting, mating, singing cicadas. Published June 4, 2013
EDITORIAL: Gov. O’Malley’s ‘miracle’
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is a miracle worker. At least, that's what he told the crowd gathered Thursday in Washington at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Published June 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: The leaning ivory tower
The left talks a lot about diversity and academic freedom, but it's rarely practiced. With rare exceptions, the ideological spectrum of the commencement speakers sending graduates out into the real world ranges from far left to even further left. Published June 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: Our uncompetitive economy
When the time comes to pay the tax man, corporate executives realize the United States is the single worst country in the civilized world to do business. That's a rather stunning development for a country that was founded on the principles of free enterprise. Published June 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: Shield law isn’t the answer
No administration official should ever hold the threat of jail time over the heads of reporters who are doing their job responsibly. Published May 31, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bachmann’s exit
Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday she would not seek a fifth term. The Minnesota Republican's rise to prominence crested with her victory in the Iowa GOP's presidential Ames Straw Poll in August 2011, and it went downhill from there. Published May 31, 2013
EDITORIAL: Holder’s contempt for the truth
The Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN have turned their backs on one of President Obama's top Cabinet officials. Published May 31, 2013
EDITORIAL: Taking away the Fifth
Sometimes the best lessons are the ones that aren't planned. High school students in Batavia, Ill., recently received real-world training in the Bill of Rights unlike anything found in a textbook. Published May 30, 2013
EDITORIAL: Rotten to the core
President Obama wants to be involved in drafting the curriculum in our local schools. It's part of an initiative called "Common Core," the brainchild of state educational bureaucrats crying out for more centralization. Published May 30, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bob Dole’s bad advice
Former Sen. Bob Dole's diagnosis of what supposedly ails the GOP today is as woefully outdated as you might expect from someone who has been out of office for 17 years. Published May 30, 2013
EDITORIAL: The march to citizenship
For one side of the immigration debate, the goal is to hand out as many citizenship cards as possible. This "path to citizenship" is more a path toward dependency, in which illegal aliens take advantage of various welfare benefits and presumably show their gratitude by voting for the Democratic politicians who keep the goodies flowing. Published May 29, 2013
