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EDITORIAL: Preserving genetic privacy
Science has broken the code of human composition and can read the genetic "fingerprint" unique to each person. The forensic technique of collecting DNA raises serious privacy concerns, however, especially when government demands it with the force of law. Published February 21, 2013
EDITORIAL: Disorganized Labor
America's criminal justice system is meant to treat everyone as equal before the law. Often it doesn't. Perpetrators of violence, intimidation and extortion get a free pass if they're union activists. Published February 20, 2013
EDITORIAL: Obama’s super-secret golf trip
President Obama has a very carefully crafted public image, and he's willing to shut out his friends in the press to maintain it. Published February 20, 2013
EDITORIAL: Energy’s bad charges
The White House insists investments in renewable-energy technologies will pay off with a strong middle class. As President Obama declared in last week's State of the Union, increasing government spending on solar panels will "drive down costs even further" and kick off an explosion in the green jobs of the future. Published February 20, 2013
EDITORIAL: Asteroid stimulus
Great rocks have tumbled from the sky since there was an Earth for them to tumble on, but the asteroid falling in Russia's Ural Mountains was the largest caught live on film. Dramatic footage shows pieces of a 10,000-ton cosmic object streaking through the atmosphere, glowing brighter than the sun. Published February 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: Another government gas boondoggle
Uncle Sam's an uninvited guest at every child's birthday party. The floating balloons that decorate such festivities are filled with helium, a gas that's coming up scarce thanks to a market-distorting federal government boondoggle that has mostly gone unnoticed. Published February 19, 2013
EDITORIAL: The island of hypocrisy
Not so long ago, having offshore investments was a bad thing. Throughout the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama pummeled Mitt Romney for his successful career at Bain Capital. He was derided as an outsourcer, a shipper of jobs to Mexico and a tax dodger with tax shelters in the Cayman Islands. Published February 18, 2013
EDITORIAL: Cheater’s capital
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has lived, worked or interned in Washington that the city has been named as "America's least faithful city," according to a poll conducted by an online dating website tailored for "married dating." Published February 15, 2013
EDITORIAL: Huddled masses in retirement
Entitlement spending and immigration are two issues that threaten America's financial future. The two controversies meet in the case of the newly arrived elderly, many of whom have discovered they can cash in on an overly generous welfare system. Published February 15, 2013
EDITORIAL: Making workers unemployable
Perhaps one of the most disastrous policies President Obama called for in his Tuesday night address was a hike in the minimum wage. Raising this government mandate from $7.25 to $9 an hour by 2015 is the surest way to ensure Americans who are down on their luck have no chance to escape the unemployment lines. Published February 14, 2013
EDITORIAL: Green power to the people
Energy is the key to America's economic future. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the nation into one increasingly dependent on sunshine and breezes to power the economy. Published February 14, 2013
EDITORIAL: Tortured logic on drones
If truth is the first casualty of war, consistency is probably the second. The loudest critics of President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism policies have fallen silent as our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president ordered the killing of Americans in drone strikes. Published February 13, 2013
EDITORIAL: Renting away our rights
There can be no rest when it comes to defending constitutional rights. Government at every level constantly chips away at the fundamental principle that Americans should just be left alone if they're not doing anything wrong. Published February 13, 2013
EDITORIAL: Black boxes turn cars into tattle tools
Cellphones can track our conversations and whereabouts, but they're not the only devices that have gotten too smart for our own good. Uncle Sam is planning to mandate data recorders as standard equipment in all new vehicles to snoop on the driving habits of the public. Published February 12, 2013
EDITORIAL: Obama’s license to snoop
Uncle Sam is downloading the contents of laptops, cellphones and digital cameras belonging to international travelers. The widespread snooping may help agents discover whether someone illegally downloaded music before boarding a long flight, but it also has chilling implications for personal privacy. Published February 12, 2013
EDITORIAL: Bring up right to work
Tired of lagging economic growth, wasteful government spending and high unemployment, states in the industrial Midwest have decided to break the iron triangle between Big Labor bosses, union political spending and the politicians who do their bidding. Published February 11, 2013
EDITORIAL: Rand Paul’s foreign-policy vision
As the past four years have demonstrated, things go bad when a president lacks a clear foreign-policy vision. The lack of coherence in our dealings with other nations has emboldened our foes, who suffer no consequence when they murder our ambassadors and kill our citizens. Published February 8, 2013
EDITORIAL: A bad rap on Richard III
Richard III's bones turned up under a parking lot in the English Midlands city of Leceister, but the dust is hardly settled. Yes, say the archaeologists and pathologists, he did not die on a horse, affirming Shakespeare's version of the king's plaintive cry, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" Published February 8, 2013
EDITORIAL: Attack of the Obama drones
President Obama's practice of killing purported terrorists with airborne drone strikes overseas has ventured into uncharted legal territory. The maneuver is likely to trigger pointed questions when White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan faces a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday as CIA director nominee. Published February 7, 2013
EDITORIAL: Government land grab put to bed
The Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Mass., won't be found on any world's best hotel lists, but it has become a five-star example of the need for Congress to enact comprehensive civil asset-forfeiture reform. Published February 7, 2013
