THE WASHINGTON TIMES

EDITORIAL: Exporting auto-bailout cash

From the moment congressional leaders began contemplating a bailout for automakers, massive waste was a virtual guarantee. At the very least, taxpayer funds would go to subsidize one group of American workers (at Chrysler and General Motors) who are taking a public handout to compete against other American workers (at Ford) who are paying the taxes. Now American workers are forking over their cash to subsidize jobs overseas.

November 13, 2009

EDITORIAL: Stimulus creates jobs in China

Of the $1 billion in clean-energy stimulus money spent since the beginning of September, $850 million has gone to foreign wind companies. It doesn't take a bunch of experts at a hastily planned "jobs summit" to discover this isn't the way to bolster employment in America.

November 13, 2009

EDITORIAL: A proud legacy trashed

Supporters of the House health care bill who tout the American Medical Association's endorsement fail to mention that the AMA no longer represents the majority of American doctors or that it frequently backs left-wing policy proposals.

November 12, 2009

EDITORIAL: When the shooter becomes the victim

A disturbing story line is taking shape in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre. Some are trying to explain suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's motives for reportedly gunning down 13 people in cold blood by ignoring the ideology of hate that sanctified the killings. Instead, we're supposed to seek out the "real reasons."

November 12, 2009

EDITORIAL: Conflicts aplenty for Obama nominees

President Obama pledged to clean up the defense procurement and contracting process. He pledged to shut down the revolving door between government and the influence industry. But he doesn't mind that top Pentagon spending officials have recent ties to top military contractors, further proof that his pledge of reform is largely an illusion.

November 12, 2009

America’s Morning News

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - find out what three of Wednesday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin.

November 12, 2009

EDITORIAL: Delegate Norton’s partisan public health policy

Washington's HIV/AIDS infection rate is triple the national average and as high as in some West African nations. According to D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, that's not reason for introspection among District residents; it is reason to shift blame to Republicans.

November 11, 2009

Washington in 5 Minutes

SENATE

November 11, 2009

EDITORIAL: Vietnam myths haunt Afghanistan

Adm. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. is a true American hero. The former senator, retired admiral and naval aviator spent almost eight years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, half of that time in solitary confinement. When forced by his captors to do a television interview in 1966, he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code. He's the kind of man Washington leaders might want to listen to more carefully than the average purveyor of foreign-policy wisdom.

November 11, 2009

America’s Morning News

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - find out what three of Tuesday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin.

November 11, 2009

EDITORIAL: End Clinton-era military base gun ban

Time after time, public murder sprees occur in "gun-free zones" - public places where citizens are not legally able to carry guns. The list is long, including massacres at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School along with many less deadly attacks. Last week's slaughter at Fort Hood Army base in Texas was no different - except that one man bears responsibility for the ugly reality that the men and women charged with defending America were deliberately left defenseless when a terrorist opened fire.

November 11, 2009

EDITORIAL: Chemical insecurity

House Democrats claim they can better protect the nation's chemical facilities from terrorist attacks by allowing government bureaucrats and trial lawyers to have a say not only in what chemicals U.S. companies produce, but how they secure them. The plan would be comical if it weren't so misguided. Not only would it undermine plant security while potentially causing pharmaceutical and other product shortages, it could cost jobs.

November 10, 2009

America’s Morning News

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast to coast via the Talk Radio Network - find out what Monday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin.

November 10, 2009

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FEDERAL RESERVE

November 10, 2009

EDITORIAL: All the president’s lobbyists

Like his campaign promise to change the political tone in Washington, President Obama's stance against lobbying and corporate influence has proved to be a mirage. Instead of actually blocking lobbyists from serving in his administration, his "reform" has simply encouraged lobbyists to stop admitting they are lobbyists.

November 10, 2009

EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama, stay away from this wall

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The images of the people of Berlin taking sledgehammers to the hated barrier and standing atop the wall celebrating are enduring symbols of freedom's march. The event marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, which disintegrated two years later, and the victory of liberalism over communism in the Cold War.

November 9, 2009

EDITORIAL: President Obama causes more unemployment

Unemployment has reached 10.2 percent. That doesn't include unemployed workers who have abandoned their job search or accepted part-time work. Those two groups would push the unemployment rate to a staggering 17.5 percent. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics Household Survey showing that 3.8 million jobs have been lost since January, no one but President Obama believes that this year's massive increase in government spending has created or saved 640,239 jobs and the economy would have been even worse without the "stimulus" package. Yet this same administration promised at the end of February that with the stimulus, unemployment this year would only reach 8 percent.

November 9, 2009

EDITORIAL: Full ‘time’ for heinous crimes

In just two years, Joe Harris Sullivan committed 17 criminal offenses, including several serious felonies and numerous violations even while in detention. Then, on May 4, 1989, when Sullivan was 13 years old, he helped rob the home of a 72-year-old woman - and he returned later that day, threw a black slip over her head and raped her so brutally that she required surgery. Having exhausted every attempt at rehabilitation, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

November 9, 2009

Metro Briefs

The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum is hosting a traveling exhibit that explores a little known aspect of the African diaspora - its reach to Mexico.

November 9, 2009

EDITORIAL: The negative Obama factor

The Tuesday defeat of incumbent Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is proof that the Obama magic touch has waned. In a close race, the president's involvement seems to have done more to antagonize dissidence among voters than to inspire support.

November 8, 2009