THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Ownership promotes self-reliance

America was born not by accident. Rather, it was conceived by deliberate design in order to guarantee freedom and liberty and create an environment that nurtures creativity, self-reliance and responsibility and protects individual property rights. It is not by accident that America generated the highest standard of living on the planet.

June 19, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: If left wins, good loses

When the dust settles after the Democratic debates and the primary votes are in, a clearer picture of who will lead the nation after 2020 will emerge. If the radical "Democratic Socialists" manages to overtake the Trump administration, the winners will be the United Nations and its roster of third-world-country members, abortion advocates, welfare cheaters, Islamic radicals, illegal foreign intruders (aka, "undocumented immigrants"), sanctuary cities, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and others. The losers will be Israel, small businesses, Christians, gainfully employed taxpayers, the medical profession, the coal industry, individual entrepreneurship, the military, traditionalists, minorities, white males and conservative free speech.

June 19, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The sensible won’t keep voting left

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs to simply sit down and shut her mouth. The self-serving drivel that oozes from the orifice at the front of her face is supremely absurd and indefensible. In a recent interview this poltroon actually said out loud that she was in favor of impeaching President Trump because "we have the rule of law." Apparently the "rule of law" is OK when it serves her highly perverted notion of justice, but somehow that same "rule of law" gets ignored fairly quickly when illegal immigration is brought up. Miss Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal could be considered the rant of a lunatic, but she seems comfortable making herself look ridiculous in public forums so she must actually believe the fantasy.

June 18, 2019

EDITORIAL: Freeloaders should step up to lend the U.S. Navy a hand

A threat to the global oil supply imperils the global economy. Iran's menacing behavior toward oil shipments moving past its shores is just such a threat. The community of nations cringes at the notion of the United States acting as the world's policeman. The American people do, too. But when conflict erupts on the high seas, as on land, who but the Americans are expected to do something about it.

June 18, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: New ruling could open floodgates

Notably, Roe v. Wade placed the individual's right to privacy above states' rights to limit abortion. Now the Supreme Court has decided state sovereign authority prevails over the individual's constitutional protection from double jeopardy ("Supreme Court rules states, feds can prosecute for the same crime," Web, June 17).

June 18, 2019

EDITORIAL: Data thieves are making a mockery of aspiring to privacy

Americans are more security-conscious than ever. Whether it's the triggered response of a generation jolted from well-being by the terrorist attacks of September 11, or a natural result of urbanization that is characterized by living cheek to jowl, the yearning for what the college kids call "safe space" is growing.

June 17, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: End Iran’s attacks now

Two more oil tankers were attacked in the Middle East last week, bringing to six the number of oil tankers attacked by Iran ("Trump blames Iran for tanker attacks but calls for talks," Web, June 15).

June 17, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Trump tariffs will fix imbalance

For the past three decades we've heard the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, politicians and economists complain about our trade imbalances around the world, especially with China — yet no president has ever played the long game of tariffs to force these countries into fair and reciprocal trading partnerships. Until President Trump.

June 17, 2019

EDITORIAL: Elaine Chao gets the blame for husband Mitch McConnell’s skill at playing politics

Elaine Chao, the secretary of Transportation, is one of the most accomplished members of President Trump's administration. She has led two Cabinet agencies, been a sub-cabinet official, a leader of an influential think tank, and a vital force for the cheerful conservatism grounded in the hard work and traditional values that made Ronald Reagan so popular with so many Americans.

June 16, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Help eradicate poverty

I would like to see Congress pass a new program into law to replace the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, which was passed under President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 and abolished in 1996. Ever since the program's abolition, there has been a large increase in the number of people (especially children) living in extreme poverty (meaning living on less than $2 per day) and deep poverty (meaning at a level half that of the official poverty line).

June 16, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Remember Tiananmen Square

The June 4 and June 5 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre has come and gone. I remember when these events were going on, and thought that the world would stand up to the Chinese dictatorship. No one stood up. I remember that President Clinton gave China "most favored nation" trade status after the massacre. Now there are people in Hong Kong protesting. Maybe it will take a "Hong Kong massacre" for the "democratic" countries of the world to do something. As a supporter of democracy, I think that the government of the United States should oppose, not appease, all dictatorships.

June 16, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Hear older immigration cases first

President Trump deserves kudos for the recent agreement with Mexico. He appears to have at last found a means of working around an obtuse, obstinate and obstructive Congress and outlaw judges who thwart any real attempts to address illegal immigration.

June 16, 2019

EDITORIAL: Resistance in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is the pebble in China's shoe. The Beijing government didn't try to swallow Hong Kong whole when the British gave up the ghost, and the colony, in 1997. The Beijing government, which seems to have a low opinion of its constituents, promotes the line that Chinese people are incapable of democratic government and they are not capable of the rule of law and consequently are not due the liberties and freedoms common in the West.

June 13, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bernie’s ‘Misery for All’

Bernie Sanders said "the failures of 'unfettered capitalism' are evident if Americans look for them." ("Bernie Sanders evokes FDR, says democratic socialism's time has come," Web June 12). He pointed to the life expectancy of a man in McDowell County, West Virginia, at 64 years, compared with a man in affluent Fairfax County, Virginia, at 82 years. "While poor and working families struggle economically and often lack adequate health care, their life expectancy is declining for the first time in modern American history."

June 13, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Angry left made own bed

When elites in Western Europe and here at home wrested control of academia, government bureaucracies and centers of "enlightened" culture, they employed tactics of identity politics and intersectionality to divide and conquer the philistines among us — all the time preserving the perquisites of the new ruling order ("Why are the Western middle classes so angry?" Web, June 12). Instead of extolling guideposts of promotion at the gaming table of American life (academic study and a nose-to-the-grindstone ethic along with personal discipline, obeying the law and delaying instant gratification), virtue-signaling elites instruct hoi polloi that pale male croupiers load the dice and stack the deck to rig the process. In other words, the race starts at the finish line for the favored, notwithstanding the expense of trillions of dollars in a failed effort to eliminate poverty and elevate the disadvantaged with policies of busing and affirmative action.

June 13, 2019

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden views on abortion are consistently incoherent

Joe Biden has held a consistent, if consistently incoherent, position on abortion for decades. Singing from the same hymnal as many other Roman Catholic Democrats, the onetime U.S. senator for Delaware and vice president of the United States, professes that for religious reasons he is "personally" opposed to abortion. Yet — and here's the twist — he does not want to prohibit the procedure. "My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view on the rest of society," he put it in his memoir, "Promises to Keep," in 2007.

June 12, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: What about Hillary?

I liken the massive abuse of power by the Democrats going after President Trump in the media to someone throwing fake blood in the water where sharks swarm. Like spoiled-rotten little children, they tug at Mama Pelosi's skirt, screaming, "impeach Trump!" and Mrs. Pelosi just pats them on the head.

June 12, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Adapt or die

The Washington Times front-page story on journalism groups going to Congress is precious ("Journalists call on Congress to save them from Google, Facebook," Web, June 11). Where were all these concerned groups when the large "newspaper" groups started buying up the little weeklies and putting those hardworking locals out of jobs?

June 12, 2019

EDITORIAL: John Dean returned to rescue Democratic dreams, and flubbed it

Some memories, especially painful ones, have the power to bring the past back to life with the clarity of a pointed dagger. That's why House Democrats dusted off the figure of John Dean, the Watergate whistle-blower, and set him before the American public. In their relentless campaign to destroy Donald Trump and his presidency, they reckoned that Mr. Dean would demonstrate a link between the Donald and Tricky Dick. In the event it was a bridge to nowhere. The novelist Thomas Wolfe said it best: "You can't go home again."

June 11, 2019

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Illegals not above law, either

Numerous Democrats, from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to Rep. Hakeem Jefferies, chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the House, have all used the same, tired line: "No one is above the law." They specifically like to use this phrase when referring to President Trump and Attorney General William Barr, as it relates to the Mueller report, and the Democrats' ongoing investigations.

June 11, 2019