THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Banana-republic judicial reasoning

I noticed with interest the importance that so many on the political left put on former special counsel Robert Mueller stating that he had not exonerated the president ("Mueller tells Congress report doesn't exonerate Trump," Web, July 24). Mr. Mueller testifed that "we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime" since they "never started the process" of evaluating the charge.

July 28, 2019

EDITORIAL: Robert Mueller performance in congressional hearing was halting, underwhelming

Most of us have seen a bad play or two; even the Great White Way produces the occasional turkey. But it's still striking to reflect that the congressional Democrats who presided over Wednesday's hearings with former special counsel Robert Mueller actually rehearsed their roles beforehand. In the event, so bad was the performance that one wonders whether their rehearsals were straight out of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" — like Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock, it's as if they were hoping to bomb.

July 25, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Hold online abusers accountable

Shannan Watts was a smart, ambitious mother of two little girls, Bella and Celeste, and was 15 weeks pregnant with a son, whom she planned to name Nico, when she was strangled to death by her husband on Aug. 13, 2018 in Frederick, Colorado. Chris Watts also smothered his daughters and dumped their bodies in oil tanks at an oil field, and placed his wife's body in a shallow makeshift grave nearby. Not long after the murders, Chris Watts confessed and accepted a plea deal, which resulted in the life sentence he is currently serving in Wisconsin.

July 25, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Protect U.S.-airline jobs

Dennis Lennox's July 23 persecution of U.S. airlines and their employees ("The hypocrisy of U.S. airlines") is completely unfounded and laced with untruths. To equate more than $52 billion dollars in subsidies that the governments of Qatar and the UAE have funneled into their state-owned airlines to that of U.S. airlines is absurd.

July 25, 2019

EDITORIAL: Mueller report rehash still doesn’t add up to impeachment

Beating a dead horse is an exercise in futility. Hammering on Robert Mueller, author of the vaunted Mueller Report, has proved no more productive. The special counsel, who searched for damning evidence proving Donald Trump's involvement with Russia's attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, has spoken, and spoken again. No matter how many times Democrats demand a do-over, the results won't change. President Trump deserves better, and so does the nation.

July 24, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fake charges must come to light

Yesterday morning's Mueller hearing demonstrated a flaw in the legal system that is perplexing to the average citizen. The Mueller report was divided into two sections: Did the president collude with the Russians to sway the 2016 election? And did the president obstruct the investigation?

July 24, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Mueller show embarrassing

Oh, my. A paladin of probity has been laid low by his own weak effort ("Mueller befuddled by own report, not 'sharp' as he faces Congress," Web, July 24). Emulating Democratic presidential pretender Joe Biden, who failed bigly at the first debate, Robert Mueller, another gray-haired Beltway biggie who headed the investigation of Russian influence in the last presidential election, failed to deliver what flailing Democrats desperately wanted — namely, an orange scalp nailed to the Oval Office door.

July 24, 2019

EDITORIAL: Government restriction of religious expression is disturbing

Human thoughts seek to freely roam to the farthest corners of imagination and emotion, but there are plenty of bids to rein in their expression. Freedom to speak one's mind is on a shortening leash and, ominously, religious expression is encountering increasing hostility as well. Mounting government efforts to regulate manifestations of the human-divine connection are disturbing. How much more unprepared is officialdom likely to be in dealing with a different sort of higher calling: The coming phenomenon of human beings under the influence of artificial intelligence.

July 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Narratives’ aren’t science

Of the many tragedies that have befallen our society in recent decades, in my view the one that most imperils our future is the replacement of society's reverence for science and the scientific method with the progressives' reverence for their own self-generated narratives — which are but words ungrounded in reality ("In defiance of science," Web, July 19).

July 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Squad’ et al allowed to be uncouth

Much of the rest of the country looks upon typical metropolitan New Yorkers as crass, uncouth, rough and vulgar. President Trump is a New Yorker, and when he acts or sounds like the stereotypical New Yorker, it is laughable how he is treated in the media. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representing residents from the Bronx and Queens, is also a New Yorker, and when she and the president sound the same, only the president is singled out and criticized for his demeanor.

July 23, 2019

EDITORIAL: Democrats push leftist presidential candidates, moderate Senate contenders

A funny thing about politics today. The Democratic Party's presidential candidates are sprinting left as fast as Michael Johnson in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — desperate, they seem to be, to pander to a liberal base clamoring for "free" college, "free" health care, open borders along the Rio Grande, and an apparently gender-less, or at best, "gender fluid" world. (Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts recently helpfully informed her 2.8 million Twitter followers that her preferred pronouns are "She/her." Now if only she were similarly clear on the matter of her ethnic heritage.)

July 22, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left’s rejection of past a mistake

Like any nation, America has its problems. Yet it remains arguably the greatest nation ever, a nation founded on a set of values and ideals that continue to attract immigrants from all over the world. And while not all of the Founders were Christian, many were devout believers who embraced Christian values and a biblical understanding of human nature. They understood the seductive danger of concentrating too much power in too few hands. Through their sacrifice and wisdom, they left us a nation known for its liberty and its guarantee of freedom.

July 22, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trip to Israel won’t unwash brains

With a trip to Israel already approved by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Reps. Tlaib and Omar, the two anti-Israel members of the House of Representatives, it would be edifying if and when the itinerary is made public. Certainly the American taxpayer will be confronted by the trip cost to the tune of thousands, if not hundred of thousands, of dollars for luxurious accommodations, costly security and miscellaneous gratuities.

July 22, 2019

EDITORIAL: Who’s blocking Trump’s 5G priorities?

President Trump has made it clear he intends for the United States to win the race to 5G. So far, it's been hard to get out of the starting blocks. Some of the people who work for him apparently don't want to step into the starting blocks.

July 21, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fateful space-age events

Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and it brought back memories of my involvement in our space program.

July 21, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left the real race-obsessed ones

The radical left Congresswomen who trash America almost daily were challenged by President Trump to return wherever they may have originated, fix the problems there, and then return to the U.S. to report how they did it.

July 21, 2019

EDITORIAL: How raising the minimum wage too high could do real damage

If your wallet has felt a little fatter recently, you're not alone. After a decade or so of stagnation, Americans' wages are finally starting to grow, and not a moment too soon. As of this spring, wages were growing at about 3.4 percent year over year — the highest rate in more than a decade. The grim post-Great Recession slog is finally over.

July 18, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Pruden irreplaceable

What devastating news to read that Wesley Pruden passed away this week ("Washington Times editor, columnist Wesley Pruden dies at 83 after remarkable six-decade career," Web, July 18). Mr. Pruden may have been a "newspaperman," but he was also an extraordinary wordsmith. I read all of his columns beginning in 1982 and ending on Tuesday with his marvelous "The four noisy horseladies of the Apocalypse." There was never a Pruden column that didn't make me laugh, introduce me to a new word or explain an issue without politically weaponizing it!

July 18, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Squad’ should get to work

There is a saying in the African-American community: "Don't start none, won't be none" ("The four noisy horseladies of the Apocalypse," Web, July 15). These four congresswomen — Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Pressley and Omar — have been accusing everyone of racism ever since they were sworn in, even calling Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a racist.

July 18, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Condemn, remove anti-U.S. reps

Make no mistake: Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley are indeed anti-American, pro-Islamist cheerleaders of those who wish us and our allies death and destruction. Ms. Omar's televised gushing praise and pride in al Qaeda cannot be written off as anything but what it was: A show of hate to America, an undisguised wink of thanks to terrorists and spit in the eye of those lost on Sept 11, 2001.

July 18, 2019