THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No qualified candidates

In 2015-16, there was a herd of 17 Republican candidates for president who negated each other by sharing campaign funding, diluting votes in the primary and electing the least-qualified individual. We now suffer with a president who does not understand the workings of our government, has fired or forced the resignation of approximately 25 key personnel, and regularly attacks the press, judiciary and our intelligence agencies.

June 30, 2019

EDITORIAL: Kim Jong-un regime makes tourist travel a risky adventure

Alek Sigley is that oddest of ducks, a fan of the misery of life in North Korea. Mr. Sigley, a 29-year-old Australian from Perth, is one of the few Westerners who makes his home in the totalitarian state. He is a graduate student at Kim Il-sung University. Mr. Sigley says he has long felt a fascination with socialism. He may be the only Australian resident of North Korea.

June 27, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Here we go again

Haven't we already heard what today's Democrats are spouting? True, it was about a century ago, but we know about the Nazis. Their real name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Originally, they were anti-big business, anti-bourgeois and anti-capitalist. Then, they became anti-Semitic. Oh, wait. There were also the Bolsheviks. They overthrew the czar during the "Great Socialist Revolution." Once again, they were anti-bourgeois, anti-big business and eventually anti-Semitic.

June 27, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Start deportations now

Congressional Democrats claim illegal-alien children are being housed in unacceptable conditions thanks to the Trump administration. However, the fault for these living conditions lies squarely with the left. Because of their twin goals of open borders and massive amnesty, they have refused to address the invasion — in spite of pleas from the administration and others. Initially, they denied the crisis' existence, calling it Trump-manufactured.

June 27, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump averted leftist triumph

American columnists and scholars are right that President Trump should not let Iranians take military action without a U.S. response, and precise proportionality really does not matter except to liberal Democrats and the drive-by media. A considerable number of socialist and left-leaning Americans, especially in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, consider Mr. Trump — not Iran — the main enemy.

June 26, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reparations don’t make sense

All things and events are relative, whether in the course of human events or in Einstein's general theory of relativity involving both dimensions of time and space. Slavery of generations ago is a national embarrassment. No one is proud of it. And realistically most Americans are tired of being reminded of those events by today's race-baiting cottage industry, as Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee forges forward in her role as its vanguard proponent for slavery reparation payments ("'Why not now?' for slavery reparations, House panel is told," Web, June 19).

June 26, 2019

EDITORIAL: Trump will arrive in Osaka for G-20 summit with his own pivotal agenda

The G-20 summit opens Friday to address issues important to the global economy, but for President Trump the world is not enough. He has special business on the side that could be more pivotal than the gathering's broad agenda. From China to Russia to Iran to the Koreas, the president's dealmaker checklist could boost or break his momentum as he prepares to meet the field of Democratic presidential contenders head-on.

June 26, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ‘Governor’ an absurd NBA title

How much more politically correct can we get ("NBA done using term 'owner' over racial sensitivity concerns, commissioner says," Web, June 24)? The idea that a person who actually does own a part, or all, of any organization, business, etc., should not be called the owner is absurd.

June 25, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reduce costs, get a discount

Patients can and should know what their medical expenses cost. However, they currently have no incentive to find out because in large part those costs are paid by a third party, their medical insurance. A solution for this problem is to give patients an incentive to research these costs and find providers and hospitals that offer the same needed services at a significantly lower cost. This could be done by offering those patients a reduction in their medical deductible payment based on those savings. If this were done, competition between hospitals as well as competition between doctors would increase, and the costs of medical care would decrease.

June 25, 2019

EDITORIAL: With people leaving Illinois, the state looks for new ways to raise taxes

For much of the 19th and early-20th centuries, the state of Illinois was a powerful magnet. Between 1850 and 1900, the state's population grew five-fold, from 850,000 to more than 4.8 million. Some of that growth was attributable to natural population increase — big families were the rule then — but population growth was supercharged by both domestic and international migration.

June 25, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Congress dithering as usual

President Trump had given U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the go-ahead to "legally" begin removing more than 1 million illegals in our country. Now, after approximately two-and-a-half years of "resist at all costs," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the president for more time. Mr. Trump, offering more consideration than he has been shown by the Democrats, has agreed. Offering a two-week delay, Congress now has a very short time to do what they could have done years ago.

June 24, 2019

EDITORIAL: Nancy Pelosi blinks, and agrees to ‘humanitarian aid’ at border

Tough words softened by gentle deeds are preferable to gentle words trampled by rough and reckless action. President Trump vows to begin deporting illegal immigrants by the millions, a campaign promise that helped elect him and may well do so again. He didn't invent the chaos on the border, but he is the first president to try to do something about it. The nation yearns for an equitable immigration system that enables the orderly entry of foreign nationals without infringing the rights of law-abiding Americans. There's nothing in the president's words or deeds that dash that wish.

June 24, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Failure to respond a failure overall

Recently, the Iranian military shot down a high-altitude U.S. drone over international waters in the Straight of Hormuz. There was no proportionate response by the United States. Instead, President Trump called off an attack against the targets due to the potential for collateral damage. This move told us that killing people would not be a proportionate response to the shooting down of an unmanned U.S. drone. Yet I believe that a proportionate response was required to avoid future such Iranian attacks.

June 24, 2019

EDITORIAL: The Peace Cross decision was a victory for the law, common sense and gratitude

Forty-nine soldiers from "the Great War," as World War I was once known, can now "requiescat in pace." The people of Prince George's County, Maryland, can rest in peace, too. The U.S. Supreme Court liberated the Peace Cross in Bladensburg this week from the anger of vandals who wanted to evict the 40-foot-tall cross from its place of honor on a traffic roundabout, where it has commemorated the "valor, endurance, courage and devotion" of the heroic dead for nearly a century.

June 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Let military fight wars

Watching the trial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher brings back memories of how badly we Vietnam veterans were treated by politicians, lawyers, the media and the U.S. in general in the 1960s and '70s ("Bombshell: Witness at Navy SEAL murder trial admits killing militant," Web, June 20). How many of us were spat upon by Democrats, called "baby killers" and shunned by the American public? I was one of those service members. It has been 50 years and nothing has changed.

June 23, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Vote morally

One measure of a nation's greatness is how it treats the most vulnerable in its society. With the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, our government authorized the murder of helpless, innocent, unborn children in their mother's wombs.

June 23, 2019

EDITORIAL: Trump has good prospects for success in 2020

President Trump is accused by his critics, enemies and assorted soreheads of being the most divisive president since, well, maybe Chester Alan Arthur, or somebody. Perhaps he is, but much of the record of his first three years suggests that sometimes divisiveness works. He puts on a good show, too. His opening rally this week in Orlando, Florida, was a raucous whopper.

June 20, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Left must take responsibility

Border agents have become exceptionally frustrated with Congress as it refuses to deal with the illegal-immigration issue and the issue worsens.

June 20, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bernie’s socialism’s no better

The formal name of the Nazi Party was the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Sen. Bernie Sanders, 2020 presidential candidate, wants "democratic socialism" in this country.

June 20, 2019

EDITORIAL: Burning the flag is nasty business, but a law is not needed to punish it

There are eternal debates about issues that, while seeming adjudicated and settled, nonetheless bubble up every few years: Should Pete Rose be in the baseball Hall of Fame? Who killed John F. Kennedy? Should there be a constitutional amendment proscribing the burning of the American flag?

June 19, 2019