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EDITORIAL: Harassing gun owners
Liberal hopes to renew Bill Clinton's "assault weapon" ban are beginning to fade, but liberal bitterness is hard to conceal. Opponents of gun rights are turning their attention to legislative harassment. Published April 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: A plea from abused home-schoolers
The open border so dear to the hearts of many Democrats, eager to get the 11 million illegal aliens on the voter rolls, ends short of compassion for refugees from First World countries, as Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have found out. The administration is working overtime to deport this family because they home-school their children. Published April 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: Long knives for Ben Carson
Among the people who "do more before breakfast than most others do all day," Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins is atop the list. What he does really is brain surgery, and not just brain surgery, but brain surgery on infants, the most delicate of patients. Published April 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: The real civil rights issue
Liberals spent all of last week portraying the legalization of homosexual wedlock as "the civil rights issue of our time." As that theme suffused debate at the U.S. Supreme Court, a state high court stepped up and decided the real civil rights issue of our time. Published April 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: EPA rules over all
There's a full-court press under way, and it's not just on a basketball floor leading up to the Final Four. The Environmental Protection Agency has joined league with the earth-huggers to smother resistance to their "green" agenda. Published April 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: Freedom’s just another word
Freedom means different things to each of us, but in New Jersey, California and New York, shrinking personal and economic freedom means shrinking population. In the decade since 2001, New York has lost 9 percent of its population, California 4.5 percent, and New Jersey 5.6 percent. Published April 2, 2013
EDITORIAL: Let Murdoch be Murdoch
For those just waking up from a multidecade nap, the world has changed markedly since 1975. Led Zeppelin, Olivia Newton-John and Chicago no longer top the record charts. Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl have joined Hank Williams in the great Opry House in the sky. "Maude," "Columbo" and "Happy Days" no longer rule the nation's television screens. Published April 1, 2013
EDITORIAL: Medicaid’s big white elephant
Easy money from the federal government is hard to resist. After all, it's "free." A key section of Obamacare makes states the offer they can't refuse: Expand eligibility for Medicaid on an unrealistic scale, and Uncle Sam will hand over a big, fat check. Published April 1, 2013
EDITORIAL: Securing the ballot
Nothing is quite so implausible as a Democrat claiming he's against something because it's "too expensive." Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says he vetoed a prospective law requiring voters to show identification before casting a ballot because it would cost $300,000. Published April 1, 2013
VIDEO: Emily Miller on CNN with Anderson Cooper (March 28, 2013)
CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed Emily Miller on "AC360" about President Obama's White House press conference Thursday calling for more gun-control laws. Published March 29, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Passion
The chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. And Herod with his men of war set Him at nought, and mocked Him, and arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him again to Pilate. The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves. Published March 29, 2013
EDITORIAL: Advice from the Great Deceiver’s workshop
This work presents issues of faith from the perspective of Screwtape, a fictional devil, in a letter to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter. Published March 29, 2013
EDITORIAL: The Good Book’s big numbers
Television watchers across the country are glomming on to an unlikely megahit: the History Channel's 10-hour retelling of stories from the Bible. To the disbelief of Hollywood executives, viewers are shunning a lineup that includes "Revenge" and "The Mentalist" to watch another telling of the greatest story ever told. Published March 28, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bless his heart
Gallantry doesn't come naturally to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. He attempted a little faux gallantry the other day at a Democratic Party conference in Charleston, S.C., in a critique of Nikki Haley, South Carolina's Republican governor. Published March 28, 2013
EDITORIAL: Reining in class action
Trial lawyers saw their dreams of striking it rich diminish significantly Wednesday. The Supreme Court ruled that classes for class-action lawsuits must be certified based on facts. Comcast v. Behrend puts lower courts on notice. On Friday, the court should send a warning to the trial bar by agreeing to hear an appeal in the case of the smelly washing machines. Published March 28, 2013
EDITORIAL: Harkin hypocrisy
Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa purely hates "big money" in politics, though he's willing to make an exception for donors to the proposed Harkin Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State University. Published March 27, 2013
EDITORIAL: Gitmo glam
Gitmo is about to get a face-lift. The Pentagon is looking into a $150 million scheme to spruce up the 11-year-old U.S. detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the not-so-happy home of 166 veterans of Osama bin Laden's war against America. Published March 27, 2013
EDITORIAL: Scoreboard envy
Some politicians in Maryland's Montgomery County are afflicted with playground scoreboard envy. They think a little redistribution could equalize their field of dreams. Published March 27, 2013
VIDEO: Emily Miller on Fox Business (March 25, 2013)
On on the Fox Business Network, Senior Editor of Opinion Emily Miller was part the political A-team panel on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Feb. 15. Mr. Dobbs asked about The Washington Times story on Mayor Mike Bloomberg's irresponsible gun-control ads, the Supreme Court hearing gay marriage cases and other topics. Published March 26, 2013
EDITORIAL: The right precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a pair of same-sex marriage cases this week, and much of the legal speculation is clearly wrong. Those looking to undermine the traditional understanding of matrimony are obsessed with a 1967 decision, Loving v. Virginia, which overturned state laws barring interracial marriage. Published March 26, 2013