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**FILE** Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama caves on terror trials

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s 13-minute rant on abandoning plans for a civilian criminal trial for Sept. 11 attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) had the distinct tone of a sore loser. Mr. Holder's failure to sell his vision of giving international terrorists the full constitutional rights enjoyed by U.S. citizens is a big win for our country. Published April 5, 2011

**FILE** House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, puts up a chart on Feb. 14 while delivering the GOP response to President Obama's budget submission for fiscal 2012 on Capitol Hill. The nation faces a possible government shutdown if Democrats and Republicans have not agreed by March 4 on an extension for funding the federal government. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: GOP proposes real spending cut

For the first time in almost 50 years, a congressional budget is on the table that would make an actual spending cut. We're not talking about a Washington "cut" that happens when government spends more money but less than it would have liked to have spent. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, gives a nod to the common-sense understanding of the term with an outline for federal expenditures in 2012 that would come in at $89 billion less than outlays in 2011. That's a real 2.5 percent reduction. Published April 5, 2011

** FILE ** President Obama inspects a Chevrolet Volt during his tour of the General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, Mich., July, 2012. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s energy plan: A starvation diet

Here's a fact President Obama doesn't want you to know: America's collective energy resources have no equal. Despite a half-hearted promise last week to do something about skyrocketing gas prices, the president has walled off the nation's conventional energy resources while promoting purported "sustainability" over affordability. That's something to keep in mind while watching the dollar digits flash by at the gas pump. It doesn't have to be that way. Published April 5, 2011

EDITORIAL: Israel vindicated

In February 2010, President Obama's genocide muse, National Security Council senior director of multilateral affairs Samantha Power, harshly criticized Israel's reaction to the controversial Goldstone report on the 2008-2009 Gaza War. "Is the correct strategy fighting Goldstone on all fronts?" she asked. Turns out it was; good thing the Israeli government ignored Mrs. Power. Published April 4, 2011

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2009 file photo, performers appear on stage at the Miss International Queen 2009 transvestite beauty pageant in Pattaya, Thailand. Thailand's National Film Board has rejected a movie about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, a ban that the director says highlights the conservative side of Thai society despite its freewheeling reputation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, FILE)

EDITORIAL: The latest birth certificate scandal

Individuals who claim they're "transgender" are suing the New York City Health Department over what they say is discrimination. These people are upset because the city won't change the sex listed on their birth certificates unless they've had elaborate surgery to refashion their private parts and received subsequent psychiatric evaluations attesting to the permanence of their supposed "transition" to the opposite gender. Published April 4, 2011

GETTY IMAGES General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson on Tuesday in Warren, Mich., previews the new Chevy Volt, which promises to get 230 miles per gallon in city driving. While the fuel economy is enticing, analysts say the $40,000 price tag would be daunting.

EDITORIAL: Free-market Ford laps Government Motors

Ford Motor Co. beat General Motors in March sales, another small but significant victory of private enterprise over government micromanagement. Since the 2009 government takeover of GM, competition between the two leading domestic auto manufacturers has taken on strong ideological overtones. It serves as an ideal test case, a microcosm of the competition between two worldviews, the automotive equivalent of North vs. South Korea. Right now, the good guys are winning. Published April 1, 2011

When a Republican lawmaker took issue Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's assessment of proposed funding levels, she noted the "strong difference of opinion." (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The administration’s honesty deficit

Barack Obama is a president who won a peace prize and took the nation into a new war. It ought not to be a surprise, then, that he would accept an award for his administration's transparency last week as his third-largest agency was raked over the coals by Congress for obstructionism. The House Oversight and Government Reform committee alleged in a report released Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has politicized the way it responds to requests for information from the public and the press. Published April 1, 2011

Illustration: CFL bulb by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Light-bulb rights showdown

State lawmakers are fed up with the federal government micromanaging their lives. The South Carolina Senate is scheduled to strike back Tuesday with a bill that asserts the 10th Amendment right of the state to tell Washington to take a hike when it comes to the sale of incandescent light bulbs manufactured within state borders. Published April 1, 2011

"The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run out, and even before it runs out will get more and more expensive to extract from the ground," President Obama said of oil in an address on energy policy at Georgetown University on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama the Neocon

It's nice to have a neocon back in the White House. With reports of CIA covert action in Libya, emissaries being sent to talk to the rebel government and ongoing air support for the anti-Gadhafi forces, regime change is definitely in the air. All we need to make it official at this point is for the White House to come up with a clunky new euphemism, like "nonpermissive humanitarian governmental transformation," or some such thing. Published March 31, 2011

Illustration: Black Panthers and YouTube by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Lack of Black Panther transparency

The Justice Department continues to do its best to whitewash its involvement in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. The department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) wrote Tuesday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar S. Smith to say it found no "misconduct" in Obama administration political appointees overruling career attorneys in dropping most charges and penalties against the individuals who stood menacingly outside a polling place in military-style uniforms, holding nightsticks. Published March 31, 2011

** FILE ** Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Schumer the extremist

If only there were an app for Sen. Charles E. Schumer's smartphone that would tell him when there's a reporter on the line waiting to trap him. The New York Democrat was caught unaware that others were listening during a conference call he held with colleagues. Mr. Schumer spoke a bit too liberally about his party's strategy to win the budget battle set to heat up next week. Published March 30, 2011

Gas prices are posted Monday in Santa Cruz, Calif. Pump prices have jumped an average of 39 cents per gallon since the Libyan uprising began in mid-February, forcing motorists to pay an additional $146 million per day for the same amount of fuel. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: President pumps politics

President Obama's promise Wednesday to do something about rising gas prices was drowned out by the giant sucking sound of American dollars being funneled into OPEC pockets. Not that many expected his plan to make much difference anyway. A president who, as a candidate, said he didn't mind high fuel prices is not likely to be the one leading the nation toward energy policy sanity. Published March 30, 2011

Committee Chair Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, takes a photo as ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, smiles as they wait for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, to testify on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 30, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

EDITORIAL: Lead balloon

Rhode Island federal district court nominee John J. "Jack" McConnell Jr. is due for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee today. His nomination should be rejected due to ethical questions about his record. Published March 30, 2011

This image made from video broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001, shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location. The al Qaeda leader, in a new audio tape posted on Al Jazeera's website Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, threatened to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

EDITORIAL: Al Qaeda to Obama: Thanks

President Obama's advisers give him credit for energizing the Arab revolts and saving the Libyan rebels. For al Qaeda's leadership, this is all a gift from Allah. Published March 30, 2011

When a Republican lawmaker took issue Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's assessment of proposed funding levels, she noted the "strong difference of opinion." (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Napolitano: Border better than ever

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano touted her supposed accomplishments in border security on Thursday. Her photo-op on the Mexican border was overshadowed by the one-year anniversary of the violent murder of an Arizona rancher. Published March 29, 2011

President Obama shakes hands with military officers after he spoke about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

EDITORIAL: Team Obama, world police

President Obama's Monday night speech on the "kinetic military activity" in Libya revealed that he has fully accepted the faddish "responsibility to protect" (R2P) rationale for military intervention abroad. Unfortunately, this action is not just a direct attack on Libya's state sovereignty, but also on America's. Published March 29, 2011

New faces around MLB not all rookies

With four aces, the Philadelphia Phillies are all in. Because if this is the Year of the Pitcher yet again, then Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and their pals should breeze into the World Series bracket and wind up in a parade down Broad Street. Published March 29, 2011

Tim Scott celebrates his victory on Tuesday. He will become the first black Republican congressman from South Carolina since Reconstruction. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: It’s time to talk growth

Republicans may have the right message when it comes to the urgent need to slash federal outlays, but it's not enough. With so much of the treasury being swallowed by ever-expanding entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, there is no way slimming the discretionary budget alone can get us to the point of solvency. That's why the lack of attention to pro-growth policies in Washington's current budgetary scuffle has been disappointing. Published March 29, 2011

ASSOCIATED PRESS This Nov. 24, 2009 photo, shows the entrance to the DeVry University in Miramar, Fla. Students aren't the only ones benefiting from the billions of new dollars Washington is spending on college aid for the poor. An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of both low-income students and the recently boosted government money that follows them are ending up at for-profit schools, from local career colleges to giant publicly traded chains such as the University of Phoenix, Kaplan and Devry.

EDITORIAL: Feds vs. higher ed

The Obama administration's default position always happens to amass more power for big government. An example is the White House's proposed set of new regulations for higher education. Published March 28, 2011

Allison Shelley/The Washington Times Former Vice President Al Gore wanted Live Earth to be staged on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, but Senate Republicans blocked a resolution authorizing the show, calling it a "partisan political event."

EDITORIAL: Al Gore’s seawater swindle

Eighteen years ago, Al Gore warned that Florida's coastal regions would one day be wiped off the map. "Because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades ... up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated," Mr. Gore wrote in his book, "Earth in the Balance." A peer-reviewed study published last month by the Journal of Coastal Research suggests the Sunshine State might last a while. Published March 28, 2011