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EDITORIAL: Caged Panther investigation

The Democratic Congress is shirking its oversight responsibility

Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010

In their bid to protect President Obama's liberal political appointees at the Justice Department, congressional Democrats are surrendering their responsibility to keep a presidential administration honest.

EDITORIAL: Free the Baptist 10 in Haiti

Incompetent regime in Port-au-Prince penalizes charity

Monday, Feb. 8, 2010

Government officials in Haiti have picked a fine time to start taking charge of their forlorn nation. Like Keystone Kops arriving late to the scene of a bank robbery and collaring a good Samaritan pursuing the robber rather than the perpetrator, Haitian authorities have arrested 10 American Baptist missionaries attempting to help their earthquake-devastated country. Governance, thy name is incompetence.

EDITORIAL: A deficit avalanche

Obama's fiscal commission is based on budget gimmicks

Monday, Feb. 8, 2010

Even more staggering than the mountains of snow in the capital are the deficits the Obama administration plans for the next decade. Huge spending increases will add about $12 trillion to the national debt for budget years 2009 to 2020. The scariest part is that these deficits are based on unrealistic budgeting assumptions; the real fiscal outlook is much bleaker.

EDITORIAL: Snowmageddon is nigh

As each flake falls, global warming's hold on the public diminishes

Monday, Feb. 8, 2010

As Washington digs itself out from under the Snowpocalypse, the region braces for yet more flurries. At least 18 inches of snow lie on the ground at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and some places were blanketed under as much as three feet. More arctic blasts this week could drive 2010 into the history books as the capital's snowiest winter ever.

EDITORIAL: Budget Buster Express

Amtrak went off the rails a long time ago

Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010

Members of Congress must feel a bit shortchanged by the amount of playtime they received during childhood. Their ongoing fascination with one of the world's most expensive model-train sets, Amtrak, otherwise defies explanation. Politicians continue to treat the heavily subsidized operation more like a prized toy than a solid business operation. The time has come to stop shoveling money into this runaway choo-choo.

EDITORIAL: Obama's outrageous bank tax

Covering Treasury Secretary Geithner for dropping the AIG ball

Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010

The Obama administration has some pretty lame justifications for more taxes. Take its continued push for new taxes on banks. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday that the tax should be passed because it will help recoup the "outrageous" bonuses for AIG employees.

EDITORIAL: Pull U.S. troops out of Haiti

America's military relief role is done

Friday, Feb. 5, 2010

It is time to start bringing our troops home from Haiti. The earthquake is over; order is restored; the star-studded benefit songs have been recorded. When the emergency ends and reconstruction begins, the mission should be handed off to other government departments, and the fighting forces should depart.

Briefly: Asia

Friday, Feb. 5, 2010

INDIA: New bilateral talks offered to Pakistan

EDITORIAL: Maryland's moneymaking fake school zones

Traffic cameras deployed to close holes in government budgets

Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Lawmakers around the country are turning to speed cameras to mask the deficits caused by their reckless spending. This is a misuse of the police power to raise revenue for big government.