THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: For Crist’s sake, drop out

It's funny how Florida Gov. Charlie Crist didn't decide the system was broken until it broke under him. On Thursday, Mr. Crist announced he would run for the U.S. Senate as an independent after squandering a 30-point lead in the Republican primary. His departure in effect conceded the nomination to Marco Rubio. Mr. Crist apparently is convinced that the Senate desperately needs him, though it's an open question why this is, especially among Floridians who know him best. Published May 3, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s race-baiting

President Obama has been denouncing Republicans who purportedly "exploited for political purposes" the issue of illegal immigration. He also has denigrated Arizona's new illegal-alien law for threatening "to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans." All this overheated rhetoric exposes Mr. Obama as the one who is cynically manipulating racial tensions for political purposes. Published May 3, 2010

EDITORIAL: The great iPhone caper

Law-enforcement agencies in San Mateo County, Calif., seem to have forgotten that the First Amendment exists to protect all Americans from overbearing government, not just accredited journalists. On April 23, the sheriff's department busted down a blogger's door and raided his home over a cell phone that an Apple employee carelessly dropped at a Redwood City bar. Apparently, the maxim "finders keepers, losers weepers" has no bearing in law. Published May 3, 2010

EDITORIAL: Big Brother loves ‘financial reform’

The next time you make a withdrawal from an automated teller machine, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner might be watching over your shoulder. Boosted by the sweeping, 1,400-page financial regulatory proposal currently making its way through the Senate, Mr. Geithner would have unprecedented, real-time access to a wealth of personal and corporate financial data - all in the name of protecting the public. Published April 30, 2010

Culture briefs

Holy Hotdog. Archie Comics - one of culture's most enduring portraits of wholesome Americana - is introducing a gay. A gay male Archie character. His name is Kevin Keller, and he is blonde. Published April 30, 2010

EDITORIAL: Fall of Saigon revisited

Thirty-five years ago saw one of the most disgraceful episodes in American history. South Vietnam's capital of Saigon fell to communist North Vietnamese troops, bringing a close to the Vietnam War, a conflict that the United States lost by choice. Published April 30, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s payoff to Brazilian cotton growers

As a candidate for president, Barack Obama talked a lot about "fair trade." Unlike free trade, which is an objective concept, fair Published April 30, 2010

Mahr makes area hall of fame

Mike Mahr, director of advertising for The Washington Times since 1992, has been inducted into the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame, honoring a career that has spanned five decades in Washington journalism. Published April 29, 2010

Political Scene

Laura Bush book suggests poisoning Published April 29, 2010

American Scene

A Continental Express flight from Houston to Washington was diverted to North Carolina on Wednesday after a threatening message was written on a restroom mirror, the Transportation Security Administration said. Published April 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s racial appeal

President Obama is transforming from being the "post-racial" to the most racial president. In a videotaped appeal made on behalf of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Obama says he wants to "reconnect" with "young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again." This attempt to reconnect reveals a substantial disconnect. Published April 29, 2010

Culture Briefs

Pope hatred Published April 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s European-style revenue raiser

President Obama kicked off the first meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Tuesday by emphasizing - with a straight face - his purported commitment to solving what he called a fiscal crisis. "We've been scouring the budget, line by line, identifying more than $20 billion in savings this year alone," the president boasted. Don't be fooled by the fairy tale of "Obama the budget-cutter." Published April 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: A not very stimulating stimulus

Talk about overstating a weak case. President Obama has asserted incessantly that "virtually all" or "all" economists agree that the $862 billion in government stimulus spending was necessary to fix the sputtering economy and that the largesse has spurred a recovery. Hold your horses, Mr. President. If the views of experts in the "dismal science" really matter, a new poll of economists should give pause to White House propagandists. Published April 29, 2010

Times official inducted into Hall of Fame

Mike Mahr, director of advertising for The Washington Times since 1992, has been inducted into the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame, honoring a careers that has spanned five decades in Washington journalism. Published April 28, 2010

EDITORIAL: Obama’s regulatory disaster

President Obama rails against Wall Street to score populist political points. But when the smoke clears from all the demagoguery, the financial regulations he is pushing will result in fewer loans, more costly credit and individuals facing more risk. Published April 28, 2010

EDITORIAL: Puerto Rico deserves better

The Democratic House leadership has announced plans to ram through a bill to stack the deck in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico. Amazingly enough, several ordinarily sensible conservatives, including House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, are poised to help them. The collaborators ought to reconsider. Arguments in favor of political self-determination may seem reasonable, but the bill in question actually tramples self-determination in favor of an underhanded political power grab. Published April 28, 2010

EDITORIAL: Angry, hateful, violent, extremist liberals

Imagine a group of angry demonstrators toting swastika-festooned protest signs calling politicians Nazis, shouting obscenities and racial remarks and throwing rocks and bottles at police officers sent to keep order. No, these are not Tea Partiers. They are the mob that turned out last week to protest Arizona's new immigration-enforcement law. This group of liberal rowdies has been dubbed the Tequila Party. Published April 28, 2010

EDITORIAL: Arizona to Obama: Do your job

To hear liberal critics talk, it would be easy to think the state of Arizona unleashed anti-Latino posses to detain all brown-skinned people, demand their proof of citizenship and toss them in jail if the answers aren't satisfactory. The real story is more sober. Published April 27, 2010

EDITORIAL: We don’t like Ike’s memorial

It's hard to imagine there are people in Washington who think the capital city suffers from a shortage of monuments. It's even harder to imagine there are people who still don't realize this country faces a serious shortage of money. Published April 27, 2010