THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Rolling Stone’s war on our troops

"Rolling Stone magazine is engaging in a psychological operation trying to brainwash the American public," says an expert in military information operations. The magazine's Feb. 23 article, "Another runaway general: Army deploys psy-ops on U.S. senators," by Michael Hastings, is a confused attempt to create an issue where no issue exists, and a potentially libelous smear on the record of a senior military officer. This is what passes for reporting among the anti-war left. Published February 25, 2011

EDITORIAL: Rolling Stone’s war on our troops

Anything smacking of government mind control will be picked up by the anti-war blogosphere and spread like lightning, being further decontextualized and sensationalized along the way. When the fog of the media war lifts, however, one thing is clear: If any organization is involved in brainwashing, it is Rolling Stone magazine. Published February 25, 2011

EDITORIAL: D.C. needs a crackdown

A Washington city leader wants to rename one of America's most famous streets to suit his personal political agenda. In an online poll, Councilman Michael A. Brown is asking participants to choose to rename Pennsylvania Ave. "Give DC Full Democracy & Statehood Way," "51st State Way" or "Give DC Full Democracy Way," among other obnoxious options. Published February 24, 2011

EDITORIAL: Mosque surveillance a must

If the authorities want to locate Islamic extremists, they should keep looking at mosques. Just get the right person for the job. Published February 24, 2011

EDITORIAL: Protecting the troop vote

The Obama administration isn't doing enough to protect voting rights of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines serving America overseas. That's the news that emerged from a hearing by the House Administration Committee last week investigating complaints that a military voting statute enacted in 2009 is, in some cases, being ignored. Published February 24, 2011

EDITORIAL: The left’s drive toward $8 gas

With oil prices surging above $100 a barrel yesterday, consumers are realizing they will be paying a heavy price at the pump for the unrest in the Middle East. A perfect storm of foreign and domestic policy choices by the Obama administration has paved the way for European-style energy prices to arrive on these shores. Far from being alarmed, President Obama sees the prospect of $8 a gallon gas as an opportunity. Published February 23, 2011

EDITORIAL: President abandons marriage

The Obama administration announced yesterday that it will not defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This is the next step of President Obama's strategy to force the radical homosexual agenda on America against the will of the people and Congress. Published February 23, 2011

EDITORIAL: Democrats: Cowards of the Country

Democrats have fled state legislatures rather than face up to doing the people’s business. They should change the symbol of their party from the grey donkey to the yellow chicken. Published February 23, 2011

EDITORIAL: Blind hatred of the ROTC ban

Former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Maschek last week received an unfitting welcome at a town-hall meeting at Columbia University. The Iraq-War-veteran-turned-college-freshman was heckled, mocked and inexplicably called a "racist" during a forum convened to discuss reinstatement of ROTC on campus 43 years after the program's expulsion. The university gave Iran's Islamic strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a warmer welcome than this young man who shed his blood to serve his country. Published February 22, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s deprivation nation

As President Obama hurries to catch up to Europe in the conversion to so-called green energy, our trans-Atlantic neighbors are finding that they can no longer afford to support their "sustainable" power schemes. Mr. Obama's fiscal 2012 budget, released Feb. 14, takes a page from the global-warming believer's hymn book. It calls for a 4.2 percent boost in the Department of Energy's budget to $29.5 billion. It also pours $8 billion into solar panels, windmills and batteries, blowing the country in the wrong direction. Published February 22, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s race against the cures

Misguided health care policy has serious side effects. As regulators refuse to approve new medical devices and medicines, venture capital for health care has dried up, and hospitals are running out of some important drugs. It has caused what one analyst has called a serious medicine crash. Published February 22, 2011

EDITORIAL: Science for hire

Making creative use of scientific reports to promote a political or commercial agenda is nothing new. The famous hockey-stick graph found in the United Nations report on global warming turned out to be based on manipulated data, as exposed in the Climategate e-mails. Just last month, the British Medical Journal published "How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money," a report ripping apart the supposedly definitive 1998 study linking autism to vaccine use. Published February 21, 2011

EDITORIAL: Big Labor’s theater of the absurd

Wisconsin's labor protests have been likened to the Middle East uprisings, but they have more the flavor of a spoiled brat's temper tantrum. It is as if labor activists have adopted the motto, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Published February 21, 2011

EDITORIAL: Al Qaeda’s Sputnik Moment

Al Qaeda fighters have declared an Islamic emirate in northeast Libya as the leader of that North African nation, Muammar Gadhafi, is reportedly on the run. It might soon be time for the Marines to revisit the shores of Tripoli. Published February 21, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s war on democracy

Message to Wisconsin taxpayers: President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have declared war on you. Message to other states: You're next. Published February 18, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s Double standard for Iran

The people flooding into the streets of Iran to seek regime change find no support from the U.S. government. President Obama, who hectored Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak to transfer power "right now," suddenly doesn't want to get involved when it comes to the dictators running the Islamic republic. Published February 18, 2011

EDITORIAL: Ivory-tower failure

Going to college doesn't make you a better citizen. That's the main finding from the latest edition of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's (ISI) Civics Literacy Report. The study, which will be released Tuesday, concludes that American universities have been doing an inadequate job when it comes to preparing students for their civic responsibilities. The report found that the politically active were more likely to rely on self-education and frequently attended religious services. Published February 18, 2011

EDITORIAL: Don’t mess with Tehran

Two American hikers held in Iran for more than 18 months on espionage charges are facing conviction for the "crime" of getting lost. The Islamic republic, however, deserves its own measure of guilt. With tens of thousands of freedom-seeking protesters crowding the streets of the Iranian capital Monday, it is clear the Islamic regime lost its way decades ago. Published February 17, 2011

EDITORIAL: Fast-track Obamacare challenges

While lower courts wrestle over the constitutionality of Obamacare, nearly one-sixth of the economy hangs in the balance. The plans of doctors, medical students, hospitals, clinics and millions of employers will change based on whether the health care law stands or falls. The Supreme Court needs to step in and resolve the doubt. Published February 17, 2011

EDITORIAL: Obama’s amazing futureworld

The largest hurdle in the way to this techno-future is President Obama himself. He has fostered one of the most hostile business and long-term investment climates in American history. His gut instinct is to create more government, more regulation and more controls, none of which foster innovation. Mr. Obama's repeated invocations of a gee-whiz future in which new discoveries solve America's present-day problems is starting to sound a bit like a belief in magic. Published February 17, 2011