THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Beware the left’s lies

Communism is all about power and the elites who govern the peons. It uses a system of controls that strangles the little guys while the top prospers in power and wealth. It kills economic prosperity and creativity, and significantly dampens the morale of the masses. It controls all facets of society and is exceptionally strong once set in place. It uses deception, lies and manipulation to advance its cause.

October 17, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Keep Malvo locked up

Life without parole may have been too lenient for Lee Boyd Malvo, who now seeks eligibility for release ("Several victims ask for mercy for Lee Boyd Malvo," Web, Ot. 15). In 2002 Malvo was the admitted 17-year-old trigger man in at least eight murders of persons he did not even know. He was no impulsive juvenile who killed during a single incident, nor was he the heedless sprayer of bullets into a crowd containing an intended target. He was a cold-blooded serial sniper who killed obvious innocents again and again over a period of six weeks, picking victims at random like a true terrorist. If not caught, Malvo would have continued killing indefinitely. Clearly, he learned nothing from repeated killings — except that he could apparently get away with them.

October 17, 2019

EDITORIAL: Assaulting religion or the religious has no place in America

Attorney General William Barr kicked up a storm last weekend — by stating the obvious. In a speech delivered at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana on Saturday, the attorney general pointed out that a rising tide of "militant secularism" is waging war on religious communities from coast to coast. Not content to live and let live, they seek to stamp out religious practices with which they disagree. Their assault on religion and the religious is dangerous, and represents a profound departure from the principles of religious freedom on which the United States was founded.

October 17, 2019

EDITORIAL: Trump foes are writing their own impeachment rules

Politics is a mean competition, one that makes pro football look like two-hand touch by comparison. The game on the gridiron, at least, has rules meant to ensure a level playing field. Not so with the contest currently underway in Washington in which Democrats are using every trick at their disposal to knock out the opposing party's star player. Americans are witnessing the savaging of their president, and the quiet voice of conscience says it's fundamentally unfair.

October 16, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Democrats won’t change

There is an old saying: "A leopard does not change its spots." True. The Democrats will not change their spots, either. We were lied to about the philanderings of President Kennedy. We were lied to by President Clinton. We were lied to by President Obama (and Nancy Pelosi) about Obama's so-called health-care law. Harry Reid lied about the Republican presidential candidate. Hillary Clinton lied to us about the deaths of our people in North Africa and her emails. Cory Booker lied about a Supreme Court justice candidate's behavior. Joe Biden lied about talking with his son on the job for influence exchange. Adam Schiff lied about the Mueller report and what President Trump did.

October 16, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Facts don’t back meatless diet

Remember Weston A. Price? He was the dentist who traveled the world in the early part of the 20th century to decipher the influence of diet on dental health ("Who says you can't eat red meat? Food advice questioned anew," Web, Oct. 13). Price searched for vegan cultures, but all he found were cannibals — they ate the livers of the omnivores they killed. He never found any pure carnivores, either. The mostly carnivorous stockpiled various plants for those long periods when nothing but animal foods were available. So you might view the human food spectrum as bracketed by vegans and carnivores, neither of which actually existed as part of human evolution.

October 16, 2019

EDITORIAL: The left’s selective outrage

In May 2017, the "comedian" Kathy Griffin posted a video in which she holds the bloody, severed head of President Donald Trump. The media and political establishment were aghast — at President Trump's response. "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself," the president (of course) tweeted. "My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!" Two years later, Ms. Griffin is back in the popular culture's good graces, bringing her caustic brand of stand up to theaters worldwide. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, was widely derided for taking offense at a video that showed his murder in graphic detail.

October 15, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Protect us from government

The Founding Fathers included the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights for a specific reason. It was not so people could freely go duck or deer hunting, or protect their houses against burglars.

October 15, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Unions not above the law

Collusion between government and public-sector unions is nowhere more prevalent than in Washington state. Union leaders use the almost limitless supply of dues dollars at their disposal to fund the campaigns of political candidates — including Supreme Court justices — whom they're confident will return the favor by representing labor's interests rather than the interests of the voters.

October 15, 2019

EDITORIAL: Democrats ponder the choice between patriotism and socialism

Not everyone is born for greatness, but most Americans try to do their part, in the words of the Constitution, "in order to form a more perfect union." Some, though, spend their days attempting to transform it. Republicans and Democrats alike believe it is they who are laboring to build a better nation and their political adversaries who are wrecking it. It's an ominous trend, especially heading into a presidential election season where victory and defeat hang in the balance. When the Democratic presidential contenders take the debate stage Tuesday in Ohio, voters should gauge whether they intend to support the union the Framers formed, in transform it.

October 14, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What about DC’s name?

The DC Council, having denounced the discoverer of America with habitual nasty incivility, has decided to rename the Columbus Day national holiday "Indigenous Peoples' Day." But the evidently not-fully-'woke' councilors seem to have forgotten that the unabbreviated name of the jurisdiction they oversee is the District of Columbia, a form of the name Columbus. Maybe the councillors will next change the district name to the "District of Indigenous Peoples." The new abbreviation would say more about the collective mind of the council than anything else the group has done lately.

October 14, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Genders are unchangeable fact

Gender identity and gender are not synonymous. To hold them as such is unlawful. For a law to be just, it must be based on truth. History bears that out.

October 14, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What did Obama know and when?

With the Inspector General reports on wrongdoing by governmental officials looming on the horizon, no one has mentioned the proverbial elephant in the room — specifically, former President Obama, where the buck eventually stoped. Mr. Obama either knew about everything going on around him or at the very least created an atmosphere that enabled unelected officials to run amok and destroy the fundamentals of our democracy.

October 13, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Stand up to China

I would like the National Basketball Association to stand up to the Chinese dictatorship, but I am worried that it will back down ("NBA decides to remain silent for rest of China trip," Web, Oct. 11). No dictatorship has the right to tell any American how to define freedom of expression. When will this Chinese appeasement end? The federal government, both political parties, and Hollywood have all refused to stand up to Communist China. America turned its back on the country of Tibet; it is now the Tibetan region of China. Now America is turning its back on Hong Kong. Taiwan is next. We Americans need to oppose, not appease, all dictatorships.

October 13, 2019

EDITORIAL: D.C. push for ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ is bad history

In its latest spasm of virtue-signaling last week, the D.C. Council further burnished its far-left credentials by adopting "Indigenous Peoples' Day" as a legal holiday, replacing Columbus Day, to be observed Monday, Oct. 14.

October 13, 2019

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No right to force others

The transformed Democratic Party has embraced the failed, misguided promise of utopia as articulated in Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

October 10, 2019

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Impeachment not justified

There can't be a blanket rule that the president and Department of Justice are never allowed to investigate a political rival's overseas activities. This would confer immunity on criminals who subsequently run for president. But there also should not be an unfettered license for a president to use the DOJ as an instrument for seeking electoral advantage.

October 10, 2019

EDITORIAL: Three jeers for the left’s intolerance

Q: In the past week, what have each of the following demonstrated:

October 10, 2019

EDITORIAL: If Congress wants U.S. troops in Syria, it must vote

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Congress and the White House are at yet another constitutional deadlock, this time over how the United States should proceed in the ongoing civil war in Syria.

October 9, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fix surprise bills with benchmarks

We need to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. Unfortunately, North Caorlina State Sen. Todd Johnson's favored approach does not solve the problem ("Washington must solve the surprise medical billing crisis," Web, Oct. 3). Instead, it sets up a new bureaucracy that leaves Americans vulnerable to out-of-control health care prices.

October 9, 2019