THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Teach dangers of hatred

If the president and Congress believe strong background checks on prospective purchasers of guns will be sufficient to stem the increasing terrorist attacks, they are naive ("Trump on guns: Republicans and Dems must come together and 'get strong background checks,'" Web, Aug. 5). The strongest driving force for these massacres has been an unrestricted Internet, over which there is little chance of control.

August 5, 2019

EDITORIAL: Methods of stopping evildoers must not punish the law-abiding

It has happened again, and again. Not one, but two mass shootings over the weekend have triggered a desperate national outcry for action to stop the carnage. With a Texas-sized massacre in El Paso followed by another in Ohio, Dayton-area mourners punctuated a vigil led by Gov. Mike DeWine with chants of "do something." Indeed, something must be done, or possibly many things. Whatever the remedy, though, liberty must not be trampled along the pathway to security.

August 5, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Without controls, breakdown

There have been two more shootings, and once again the progressive left is blaming the usual suspects: White men, the NRA and firearms. White men are just men, nothing more or less. Being white or black or any other color is meaningless not only in regard to violence, but any other smokescreen the left throws up. Odd, isn't it, that when we talk about "mass shootings" white men get the blame, but when the "mass shootings" are in our largest cities, run by Democrats, and happen every week, progressives look the other way — without blaming men of any other color.

August 5, 2019

EDITORIAL: The Democratic Party yields to its anti-Trump partisanship

It once was said that partisan differences ended at the water's edge. Jamestown, Virginia, the site of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, dating back to 1607, is on the coast, but that water's-edge constraint was thrown overboard last week by Virginia Democrats.

August 4, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Democratic Party unrecognizable

The second round of Democratic primary debates between 20 officially announced candidates should make both Jewish and non-Jewish voters concerned about the future of our great nation. Candidates refused to criticize fellow Democrats who equate holding facilities for illegal immigrants with the Holocaust. Six million of my Jewish ancestors did not voluntarily attempt to enter into Nazi concentration camps. They did not offer to dress in rags, be slowly starved to death, perform voluntary slave labor and be gassed to death in crematoriums.

August 4, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Data isn’t racist

Law professor Gail Heriot is right to point out that, due to different life experiences, different racial groups have different rates of misbehavior in school ("Threatening teachers' ability to control their classrooms," Web, July 30).

August 4, 2019

EDITORIAL: Democrats turn left on the road to the White House

It takes uncommon stamina to run a marathon, and to finish. Winning takes something else again — endless tenacity juiced with the irrepressible confidence of, well, Donald Trump. The contest for the U.S. presidency requires these attributes, plus a four-leaf clover for good luck. With Democratic contenders for the 2020 election now catching their breath following their party's second series of televised debates, it's clear some contestants have the inside track and others are tripping over their shoelaces. This week's second round of debates demonstrated all are on the wrong track.

August 1, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Parents, not ICE, the lousy ones

Many celebrities are voicing heartbreak over children being separated from parents and family members as they cross into our country illegally, then ask for help at the border. Actress Alyssa Milano was seen crying and begging for someone to do more to help the minors who are placed in facilities while being processed. I believe her heart is in the right place, but does she think decent people bring their children here in this way? Only a sociopath would suddenly jerk their little kids away from grandmothers, cousins, friends, schools, homes, beds and toys just to force the tender young souls across a continent into a foreign country.

August 1, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Solve Baltimore problems locally

I live in Southwest Baltimore, just a few miles from Pratt and Monroe streets, or ground zero in the current left/right controversy. There you will find rats, mice, bed bugs and trash, including used hypodermic needles. (You'll find them in other areas of Baltimore, too.) I see rats in my backyard from time to time. When it gets cold in the winter time the mice find a way in my house. You'll find this in most major cities in America and not a few around the world.

August 1, 2019

EDITORIAL: Democrats disprove the theory that governors make the best candidates

It's long been political conventional wisdom that governors tend to make the best presidential candidates — think Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. So far, not this time around, however. Several Democratic governors past and present are vying for their party's nomination for the presidency. Yet they've made nary a splash. In the debate in Detroit earlier this week, former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and current Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana were nothing but also-rans, outshone by not only Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts but also new age guru Marianne Williamson.

July 31, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Racist’ canard losing power

Leon Trotsky was among the first to use the word "racism" for political purposes. Were he around today, you can bet he would use the strategy the left is using today: calling out as racist whomever they wish and getting enough people to believe it, thereby ending any debate. It's a strategy well taught in Saul Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals," that bible for the far left.

July 31, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Produce supposed ‘evidence’

I watched the loathsome interview given by the Democrats after the Mueller testimony, and heard Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler say they will be subpoenaing more people in the search for evidence to impeach President Trump.

July 31, 2019

EDITORIAL: It’s time to rein in antifa

There is nothing improper about righting wrongs. Every generation has its moment to be impetuous and impatient to make the world a better place. Some actually succeed, but many fail owing to the all-too-human tendency to see an angel in the mirror and a monster on the street. Antifa, the self-proclaimed anti-fascist movement, is but the latest example of high-minded idealism gone bad. It has become the hate it hates.

July 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump right to slam Cummings

President Trump's attack on Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings for the rat-infested conditions of Baltimore (in Mr. Cummings' district) is a well-deserved slam against the Democratic representative for the filth and abhorrent health situation in that city ("Trump: Cummings 'should investigate himself' for 'stolen or wasted' Baltimore funds," Web, July 30). In another Democrat-governed city, Los Angeles, the high rate of homelessness and other lousy conditions are leading to the emergence of the bubonic plague.

July 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: USPS needs less government

The title of a recent Times editorial is "Reforming the Postal Service" (Web, July 28) — and boy, does the U.S. Postal Service ever need reform. One area where it can begin is efficiency. Thanks to the masterminds at USPS, I may get double charged by my cable company because USPS cannot deliver bills on time. I mailed a payment two weeks ago — way ahead of the deadline — and it has still not arrived, according to my cable company. This is the third time this year that I have had problems mailing payments through USPS.

July 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Party that couldn’t shoot straight

The get-Trump mania pretty much began when Hillary Clinton threw her notorious snit fit, refusing to concede that she had her political can kicked through the uprights from midfield by a brash, non-professional-but-better-organized outsider in the 2016 presidential election.

July 29, 2019

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden runs from his support of the 1994 crime bill, but he shouldn’t

In his roughly 700 years in Washington, former Vice President Joe Biden has had one bona fide achievement that he should be proud of: The 1994 crime bill that he co-authored. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act came at a time when the United States was reeling from decades of high crime rates — major American cities, including Washington, D.C., were rife with open-air drug markets and the violence that came with them.

July 29, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Should Trump consider pardons?

I believe that President Trump would be well served to offer presidential pardons to all those criminally involved in what has be dubbed "the Russia hoax." Such a pardon would be dependent on six conditions: 1) The perpetrators acknowledge guilt 2) They accept a sentence 3) They decline appeals 4) They go public with all information 5) They appear before a tribunal, either congressional or grand jury, and 6) They testify against others.

July 29, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Death-penalty call the right one

Attorney General William Barr's recent directive to reinstate the federal death penalty process is not only warranted but also politically astute in light of Joe Biden's recent announcement that he now opposes the federal death penalty ("Yes, a close moral call — but Trump's right to restore death penalty," Web, July 25).

July 28, 2019

EDITORIAL: Reforming the Postal Service

Have the folks who run the U.S. Postal Service heard the one about the first thing you do when you're stuck in a hole is to stop digging? A private corporation regulated by the United States government, it's perpetually in the red, this time to the tune of nearly $4 billion.

July 28, 2019