THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Post 9/11, America needs a leader

Where are we, 14 years after Sept. 11? The future looks dark and grim. Fourteen years after the American people rallied with one voice to demand retribution and an assurance that this would never happen again, confusion and indecision have replaced the spirit of the America that can do anything and everything.

September 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Public servants unsung heroes

There are heroes who walk among us every day, people to whom we could never be grateful enough that they choose to live a life of public service. These men and women serve and protect the public with little recognition for the incredible services they perform in helping maintain a civilized culture.

September 9, 2015

EDITORIAL: Squeezing cars until they squeal

Traffic congestion is the dark lining of the silver cloud of prosperity.

September 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hypocrisy in Kim Davis jailing

Hypocrisy abounds in the jailing of a city clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and is now sitting in jail ("Kentucky clerk appeals her jailing over gay marriage," Web, Sept. 7).

September 9, 2015

EDITORIAL: A minimum wage for maximum damage

Labor Day is the day certain politicians set aside for their annual climb up Big Rock Candy Mountain.

September 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama silent on refugee crisis

Where is the United States' moral voice when it is needed?

September 8, 2015

EDITORIAL: Kim Davis and Christians in the closet

Many Christians think they're changing places with homosexuals "in the closet" where the naughty are sent for a "time out."

September 8, 2015

EDITORIAL: Vladimir Putin sniffs an opportunity in Syria

Vladimir Putin has a gift for sniffing out opportunity. He might be called Vlad the Inhaler.

September 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: McKinley name change insults all

Robert W. Merry's recent Commentary piece ("McKinley, a mountain no more," Web, Aug. 31) was a disappointing, weak surrender to the Obama administration's unlawful renaming of Mount McKinley.

September 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Disturbing trend of killing police must end

The cold-blooded, ruthless murder of Deputy Darren Goforth in Houston is a despicable crime and its horrific impact is felt far and wide ("Shannon J. Miles, suspect in ambush of Houston-area deputy, held without bond," Web, Aug. 31).

September 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Disasters in Gaza

The news that four American soldiers were wounded on the Egyptian-Gaza border and were evacuated, and their injuries are not life-threatening, is good news. But the bad news is that the incident demonstrates how out of alignment American policy is in the region.

September 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Police lives matter

A sheriff's deputy in Houston is shot 15 times as he fuels his squad car because, as investigators learned later, he "was wearing a police uniform." In Illinois, a popular police officer, 30 years on the force, is slain in rage and anger.

September 7, 2015

EDITORIAL: Excerpts from ‘My Life and Work’

When you get a whole country -- as did ours -- thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind, which augurs ill for the future.

September 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Labor Day message

Today, as we set our minds to a new season of work, we begin what I hope will be a new age of the American worker, an age in which all of us again are free to prosper.

September 6, 2015

EDITORIAL: Obama’s disrespect for William McKinley

Barack Obama is skilled and creative in devising ways to get under the skin of his political opponents. (At negotiating deals with the nation's enemies, not so much).

September 3, 2015

EDITORIAL: Hillary Clinton’s email scandal raises competence questions

Sometimes a target is chosen, other times a target chooses herself by stepping into the line of fire.

September 3, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: More presidential history, please

I read with great interest your article on the renaming of Mount McKinley, which I find so unpatriotic ("McKinley, a mountain moniker no more," Web, Aug. 31).

September 3, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Iran deal a gift to GOP

In politics, everything is like living on the other side of the looking glass. Up is down and forward is backward. This is true of President Obama's Iran deal. It is likely to win congressional approval, but it may well be a gift to the Republican Party that keeps on giving.

September 3, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Nothing left to trickle down

Almost without exception the news media seems to be praying that every time there is a high-visibility shooting, the perpetrator is a "right-wing," tea party or pro-life supporter of the Constitution.

September 2, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Standing up against a child rapist

The Army is in the process of trying to discharge a decorated Green Beret, Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland, for standing up against a child rapist while serving in Afghanistan.

September 2, 2015