THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Good’ schools not always a fit

I'm no stranger to busing, having been transported throughout my own high school years 30 miles each day to and from the burgeoning Norfolk suburbs to Virginia Beach public schools. But it was not until we became the parents of a daughter with disabilities that we saw busing in a different light.

July 9, 2019

EDITORIAL: With Trump promise to land on Mars, space race is on again

Politicking is about possibilities and promises, and President Trump used both in opening his bid for re-election. The most ambitious item in the category of "promises made, promises kept" is preparing astronauts for a trip to Mars.

July 8, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘AOC’ an empty-headed fraud

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is cut from the same cloth as our previous president. Paid well and on a mission, she, too, is a youthful, "fresh" face the media can use to advance the anti-America cause among the young, impressionable and indoctrinated among us.

July 8, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Stop cozying up to Kim

While there are many actions in President Trump's foreign policy that are positive, certainly these positives do not include his willingness to meet with the most vicious of dictators, a man noted not only for violating human rights but also for the murders of his own people ("Defector says Trump is 'legitimizing' Kim Jong-un regime," Web, July 6).

July 8, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sore since 2016

Disappointment that Donald Trump was elected president initiated a cascade of hysteria among the critical caste ("Michelle Obama's whiney sour grapes tell on Trump," Web, July 8). Much of the criticism is tinged with more than a tincture of bitterness. It is briny, sour and nasty, with hints of minced dreams gone to weed. It reeks of disappointment and jealousy, of burnt fantasies. It is scented with the nastiness of hyperbole and lubricated with ridiculous over-reach.

July 8, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left’s ideas defy common sense

Twenty presidential candidates tell us that "evil corporations" make too much money and must be taxed to strip profit. A 70 percent rate has been suggested. But if such a policy were instituted, would not those businesses (and the jobs associated therewith) flee America's shores to seek a more favorable business climate? They were doing so in record numbers until 2016, when that trend was reversed (for the time being, anyway).

July 7, 2019

EDITORIAL: 18 taxpayers strike a pose as billionaires for the people

"Virtue-signaling" is a favorite sport on the rich left. Baseball, boxing and football are for sissies. Virtue-signaling is the current fad word for acting "holier than thou," perfected by creative liberals to publicly express feel-good sentiments to advertise a signaler's moral correctness.

July 7, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Population declining anyway

Your editorial, "It happens every summer" (Web, July 2), which addresses climate change, contains the following excerpt: "Blythe Pepino, a 33-year-old Londoner, started Birthstrike in 2018 to voice her view that reproducing consigns the next generation to suffer the consequences of climate change and will inevitably produce heat waves, floods, droughts, famine and the heartbreak of psoriasis. Her pledge to forswear childbirth has been echoed by 450 others caught up in climate fear."

July 7, 2019

EDITORIAL: Nike disrespects Betsy Ross

The executive suites of corporate America have been the source of a lot of bonehead mistakes. Some of those mistakes are famous (perhaps infamous to stockholders): New Coke, the AOL-Time Warner merger, the Blockbuster Video (remember them?) decision to turn down a profitable acquisition offer from Netflix. But Nike's capitulation to the new forces of political correctness sets a new standard of industrial-strength dumb.

July 4, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Time for term limits

In the late 1940s, Congress amended the U.S. Constitution to limit presidential terms to only two. They forgot to limit themselves to two terms as well.

July 4, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Biden had his chance

There is a most serious and dangerous threat to the United States — but it isn't coming from Iran, North Korea, China or Russia. It's coming from the far-left Democratic Party.

July 4, 2019

EDITORIAL: ‘Weather Amnesia’ erases memories of the sweaty days of yore

Summer has arrived and the heat is on, naturally. Some like it hot, but for those who don't, recalling the ache of last winter's frigid fingers and toes may ease the discomfort. It's smart to remember the atmospheric tribulations that blow hot and cold and resist the madding crowd, certain, like Chicken Little and climate-change hysterics, that the sky is falling. To do otherwise is to succumb to the well-established disease called "Weather Amnesia."

July 2, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Murder latest symptom of crisis

Venezuelan navy Capt. Rafael Acosta was murdered after being arrested and tortured by Venezuelan counterintelligence agents who accused him of plotting against President Nicolas Maduro ("Death of Venezuelan navy captain draws US condemnation," Web, June 30). It was part of the Maduro government's crackdown on military personnel who may no longer be loyal to the socialist dictatorship, as well as the counterintelligence G-2 Cuban agents' efforts to keep the military in line with spies.

July 2, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The best there is

America bashing is the main theme of the Democratic Party today, and when you add the new socialist element, the party gets even worse. When I take an honest look at my country, it's not all good, but it's not all bad, either. It is by far the very best there is in the world.

July 2, 2019

EDITORIAL: Antifa and the alarming trend of settling differences on the street

The hallmarks of a functioning democracy are clear enough. Open elections, a free and unfettered media, an unbiased judiciary system. The most important is the guarantee that a citizen can write or speak his opinions, popular or not, without fear. The United States does well on open elections (despite the Russians), a free media (fake news aside), and an honest judiciary. On fearless free speech, not so much, or not as much as used to be.

July 1, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Today’s Democrats are tyrants

As a life-long registered Democrat and retired academic who grew up in California when it had the best public education system in the country and was a lovely place to live for the vast majority of the population, I watched with incredulity the recent Democratic presidential debates ("The noisy parade of the debutantes," Web, June 27).

July 1, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump’s many accomplishments

Last month the Dow celebrated its biggest June in 81 years. Forgoing expected U.S. military action and steadily increasing economic sanctions has Iran slowly losing the fight against the free world. Kim Jong-un welcomes the first sitting American president into North Korea for talks and thetrue beginning of a relationship.

July 1, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Define ‘white supremacist’

I was surprised to see "More white supremacist propaganda showing up on US campuses" (Web, June 27) in my Washington Times, which usually has such high standards. Nowhere in this article is "white supremacist" defined; nowhere is an example given. The current "college viewpoint" has struck me as one that applies the label "white supremacist" to anyone who does not agree with the current far-left mood on campuses.

June 30, 2019

EDITORIAL: American medicine is the best, but its shortcomings are real

American medicine is the best in the world, so an ancient bit of wisdom goes, "just don't get sick." American medical innovations are unmatched anywhere in the world, and when the rich get really, really sick the United States is where they come. The politicians who keep trying to "fix" the system's shortcomings — and they're real — haven't yet managed to destroy the system. But they're coming close.

June 30, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The other side of forced busing

I watched last week's Democratic 2020 presidential debates ("Kamala Harris attacks Joe Biden on race," Web, June 27). During them, Sen. Kamala Harris told a story about a second-grade girl bused to a school as part of an effort to force integration, and she was that girl. What she didn't say was that she was bused to a better school and it helped her get where she is today.

June 30, 2019