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EDITORIAL: Networks censor health care debate
The major TV networks don't even let revenue get in the way of their biased coverage in favor of President Obama's agenda. Published September 6, 2009
EDITORIAL: The NEA’s partisan work for Obama
When the Obama administration launched its United We Serve volunteerism program earlier this summer, it was all about building playgrounds, caring for wounded veterans and reading to homeless children. Weeks later, the Obama White House, the National Endowment for the Arts and United We Serve have revealed the actual agenda -- backing the administration's political priorities with coordinated propaganda, perhaps boosted by millions in stimulus cash. Published September 6, 2009
EDITORIAL: The president’s crackpot
Barack Obama promised to usher in a new post-partisan utopia if elected president. But since taking office, Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with some of the most extreme radicals from the far-left fringe. Published September 6, 2009
EDITORIAL: Obama panders to Islam (again)
Muslims are what make America great, if President Obama is to be believed. At a White House interfaith dinner honoring Ramadan on Tuesday, he said that "the contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country." We would be intrigued to see that long list and to learn more about how Muslims have been part of the woof and warp of America. Published September 4, 2009
EDITORIAL: Crash the clunkers
The Obama administration has declared its "cash for clunkers" program a "success." If the Car Allowance Rebate System is the Democrats' model for bureaucratic competence, we're afraid to see how they would administer a government-run health care system. Published September 4, 2009
EDITORIAL: Beaming Obama into your kid’s head
President Obama's planned address to America's schoolchildren on Sept. 8 is generating a firestorm of controversy from concerned parents who think he should mind his own business and stay away from their children. It's easy to see why. Published September 3, 2009
EDITORIAL: It ain’t America no more
In America, school security guards don't get to revise the First Amendment to suit their whims. Nobody does. Published September 3, 2009
EDITORIAL: From yard sales to jail yards
When federal agents can swoop down on your personal garage sale and arrest you for selling the wrong old doll, this is no longer the land of the free. Yet just such a scenario is possible because of a campaign called Resale Roundup, which stems from last year's jobs-destroying Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Published September 3, 2009
EDITORIAL: McDonnell the moderate
Bob McDonnell's safest choice to address controversial language in a decades-old thesis was to repudiate the whole thing. That's the reality of today's conformist environment in which political correctness trumps real debate on cultural issues. Few people will buy the Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate's pragmatic position, but it's in step with the etiquette of modern campaigns. Published September 2, 2009
EDITORIAL: Stop hyperventilating
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is telling people to stop "hyperventilating" over a passage in his new book, "The Test of Our Times -- America Under Siege." Let's take a deep breath and check the facts. Published September 2, 2009
EDITORIAL: Taxing trades
The market has been volatile over the past year, but unions and some liberal Democrats want to tax stock and futures trades under the guise that this will make markets more stable. More taxes are not the answer. Published September 2, 2009
EDITORIAL: Rangel profits by any way, any means
Charlie Rangel is one lucky guy. The Democratic congressman from Harlem, N.Y., just discovered that his net wealth is twice what he thought. That's a pretty good day at the office for a public servant. Published September 1, 2009
EDITORIAL: The price of appeasement
Seventy years ago today, Adolf Hitler's armies swept into Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War had begun, a tragedy loosed on humanity as a direct result of a well-respected and popular foreign policy called appeasement. Published September 1, 2009
EDITORIAL: Chevron’s message to Garcia
Back in May, Ecuadorean Attorney General Diego Garcia Carrion was not happy with The Washington Times editorial board. We had written that a $27 billion environmental lawsuit in Ecuador against Texaco/Chevron was no more than a rigged "shakedown of millions of American small investors who have a stake" in the oil company. Mr. Garcia's letter in response claimed that "the government of Ecuador is not a party" to the litigation and that observers could expect "a just and reasoned decision in the case." Published September 1, 2009
EDITORIAL: Muhammad and man at Yale
Yale has run up the white flag to terrorism. Published August 31, 2009
EDITORIAL: False reports about guns
Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks -- from CBS to MSNBC -- have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn't happened. Published August 31, 2009
EDITORIAL: Keeping the ‘flex’ in health care
What do Democratic leaders have against individual economic choice? Amid so many other flash points in their various versions of health care overhaul, observers might have missed their attempt to torch the Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), which are popular with millions of Americans. Published August 30, 2009
EDITORIAL: Invasion of medical privacy
Privacy rights are under threat in the House's government health care plan. While plowing through the more than 1,000-page Democratic House bill, Declan McCullagh of CBS News uncovered provisions that would allow startling privacy intrusions. The innermost secrets of people's personal lives would be made available to thousands of government bureaucrats. Published August 30, 2009
EDITORIAL: White House control of the Internet
The Senate Commerce Committee wants to hand control of the Internet over to the Obama White House. Increased government intervention isn't the answer to the nation's cybersecurity problem. Published August 30, 2009
EDITORIAL: Obama jilts Poland and the Czech Republic
The United States is poised to dump a critical missile-defense agreement with two of its most dependable NATO allies. The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported yesterday that the Obama administration is going to scrap the "third site" anti-missile system scheduled to be deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic. Missile interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic were scheduled to be deployed by 2013. Now the plan appears to have been shot down. Published August 28, 2009
