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LEE: Watching Egypt crumble
By John Lee - The Washington Times
Many think the political turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordon and Yemen is a warning to Beijing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could be the next authoritarian regime existing on borrowed time. Many lecture Beijing that for the country to avoid similar political turmoil, it needs genuine political reform and the Chinese people need more freedom. But that is not the way most leaders in Beijing see it. The current turmoil is only reaffirming to Chinese leaders that they need to tighten rather than loosen their grip on political and economic power. Published 6:54 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
BERMAN: Mubarak bets on continuity in Cairo
By Ilan Berman - The Washington Times
As the wave of grass-roots unrest sweeping across the Middle East en- velops Egypt, all eyes are on the next move of embattled President Hosni Mubarak and his increasingly rickety regime. The telltale signs, however, are already becoming apparent; even as he has offered political concessions to his opposition, Egypt’s aging autocrat is steering his country toward military control. Published 6:54 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
KUHNER: Obama empowers radical Islam
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times
President Obama likely may have lost Egypt. If he has, it will be one of the most dramatic and devastating foreign policy defeats for the United States in decades. It also will be a significant victory for the forces of radical Islam - a blow that threatens to undermine American interests across the Middle East. Published 7:10 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
EDITORIAL: The Gipper’s lesson
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Ronald Reagan left a void when he stepped down as president 22 years ago. The warmth, sincerity and class he brought to the Oval Office has not been equaled since. Nor has his ability to articulate and advance a compelling policy vision. Published 7:27 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
EDITORIAL: Reagan: A statement, not an apology
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War, but to achieve victory he had to convince some squishes that the war was still on. Reagan’s detractors habitually dismissed him as a “cold warrior,” an elderly kook frightfully and dangerously behind the times. Fortunately for the cause of freedom, the Gipper wasn’t afraid to take on world opinion, and in so doing he changed the world. Published 7:27 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
SHIRLEY: Real Reagan clouded by myth
By Craig Shirley - The Washington Times
The good news is that myths abound about Ronald Reagan, just as they do about other great Americans. If no one cared about Reagan or his legacy, no one would try to glom onto them or reinvent them. Then he would be consigned to the dustbin of history. After all, who makes up folklore about Franklin Pierce? Published 6:54 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
MURDOCK: Brains behind a winning White House
By Deroy Murdock - The Washington Times
Martin Anderson works in an ivory tower - literally. From high above Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Mr. Anderson contemplates Ronald Reagan’s legacy as his centennial arrives on Sunday. Published 7:10 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
RAGONE: Reagan and the power of conviction
By Nick Ragone - The Washington Times
“We win, they lose. What do you think of that?” Published 7:10 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
FIELDS: Good writing faces the elements
By Suzanne Fields - The Washington Times
We’re moving swiftly into postliterate America, and more’s the pity. Many of us can’t write a coherent, straightforward, easy-to-read sentence. Nobody but a “tiger mother” seems interested in teaching her cubs how to write clearly. Published 6:54 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
CHAVOUS: The new Rosa Parks
By Kevin P. Chavous - The Washington Times
For years, many of us in the education reform movement have believed that the fight to ensure all children equal access to a high-quality education is the civil rights issue of our time. If that is indeed the case, the civil rights movement has found a new “Rosa Parks” - Kelley Williams-Bolar. Published 6:51 p.m. February 2, 2011 - Comments
ENLOW: Educational freedom, not jail for Ohio parents
By Robert Enlow - The Washington Times
Five digits. Five single numbers can make or break a child and any hope he has for the future. Published 6:51 p.m. February 2, 2011 - Comments
TYRRELL: Obamacare’s creators sent slithering
By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times
My guess is that Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Fla., is an amateur zoologist. Judge Vinson is the federal judge who ruled Monday that those who confected Obamacare cannot compel the citizenry to buy health insurance. Moreover, he found that the way the 2,700-page law was created, without any “severability clause,” makes the entire law unconstitutional. The authors of Obamacare declared that without mandatory insurance, the whole bill was unworkable. Mandatory insurance is not severable from the law. Hence, Judge Vinson threw out the whole law because of the way it was constructed. Now it is up to the Supreme Court to breathe life into this legislation or bury it. I say RIP. Published 6:02 p.m. February 2, 2011 - Comments
Ill-considered votes
By The Washington Times
Frank Medico got it absolutely right in his Letter of the Day "Catchphrases are disguise for bad policies" (Letters to the Editor, Thursday). All the examples he quoted of government intervention in the marketplace are results of unintended consequences. Published 7:27 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
Deportation confusion
By The Washington Times
The Tuesday American Scene item "Report: Immigration law not enforced consistently" (Nation) repeats misconceptions about the use of the 287(g) immigration law. It claims that the program is problematic because it results in the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants with little or no criminal record. Such a view is misguided and dangerous. Published 7:27 p.m. February 3, 2011 - Comments
ERTELT: Abortionists busted
By Steven Ertelt - The Washington Times
This week, the Planned Parenthood abortion business was caught in the latest undercover video investigation - this time helping two people representing themselves as sex-trafficking-ring operatives bent on getting abortions for the underage girls they victimize. Published 6:02 p.m. February 2, 2011 - Comments
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