Written in the trenches by Pvt. Frederick W. Heath, 1914 Dec 24, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The night closed in early – the ghostly shadows that haunt the trenches came to keep us company as we stood to arms. Under a pale moon, one could just see the grave-like rise of ground which marked [...]

Posted 12/22/2009 06:38 PM ET Energy: An oil company wants to invest its profits in clean-burning American natural gas. A Hungarian billionaire and a “green” politician want to stop it. This is the real Climate-gate scandal. While the greenies of the world united in Copenhagen to talk about the weather, emitting a Third World-country-size chunk [...]

Posted 12/22/2009 06:43 PM ET Energy:  Earlier this year, Congress approved a scheme to pour $80 billion — on top of the tens of billions already spent — into renewables. A government report released last week indicates the money will be wasted. Renewable energy is the shiny gem that everyone wants but no one can [...]

Dec 22, 2009 Health Reform: Any law can be repealed, but the Democrats’ radical health bill contains unprecedented language that could wreck the U.S. health system permanently. It’s one of the dirtiest tricks yet. ‘Page 1,020″ — it may soon be a mantra for one of the most disturbing abuses of legislative power in history. [...]

A senator’s words should be struck down Dec 23, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES What is appropriate in protecting the White House should be appropriate in protection from Whitehouse. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, that is. The Democrat from Rhode Island said words on the Senate floor on Sunday that should be struck down, and for which [...]

Bureaucratic thuggery employed to force regulatory submission Dec 23, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama knows how to stage a show. On Dec. 14, he trotted out 10 CEOs of America’s largest financial institutions and watched the executives disown the actions of their lobbyists who had been working to defeat the president’s massive regulatory [...]

Foreign leaders were avoiding the president in Copenhagen Dec 23, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Barack Obama is not used to being the guy not invited to a party. At the Copenhagen global warming conference, however, he found that not everyone wanted to hang with him. Our president can’t take a hint. After Mr. Obama’s [...]

Posted 12/21/2009 08:13 PM ET Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven’t read, the public doesn’t want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this country? If we hadn’t stayed up past midnight Sunday, we wouldn’t have known what [...]

Obamacare could make lawsuit abuse much worse Dec 22, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES A new report on “Judicial Hellholes” arrives just in time, albeit indirectly, to remind Congress that no health-system changes can qualify as real “reform” if they don’t include serious lawsuit reforms as well. The annual report by the American Tort Reform [...]

Ben Nelson sold his soul so government can fund abortion on demand Dec 22, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES So much for Sen. Ben Nelson’s “line in the sand” against government funding for abortion. “I don’t ordinarily draw a line in the sand, but I have drawn a line in the sand,” the Nebraska Democrat [...]