by Chuck DeVore | Irvine
The Golden State had a recall almost five years ago. California had a huge budget deficit at the time and soon-to-be-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was promising to “cut up the credit card.”
By the [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
The Democrats surely have a death wish. By several measures, the Bush administration has been a train wreck. Illegal immigration, already out of control during the Clinton years, combined with the anchor baby policy, has produced an avalanche of unskilled, uneducated and poor immigrants who have put enormous strains [...]
by Jon Coupal, War Correspondent | Sacramento
Last week saw several significant clashes in the budget war between those who have vowed not to raise taxes and those who would raise taxes in a heartbeat. Both sides lost some and won some but, on balance, the taxpayer defenders came out better and stronger.
The biggest fight, of [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
There was a time not all that long ago when most of us agreed about what constituted good and evil. But that time, I’m afraid, has come and gone and is now as passé as five [...]
by Doug McIntyre | Los Angeles
I spent a couple of hours watching Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain talk with the Rev. Rick Warren on my television. I just got one of those giganto flat-screen HD TVs and it’s taken over my life. I’m watching anything as long as it’s HD.
The other night, I [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
As much of the world watched the Olympics, a celebration of good sportsmanship and friendly international competition, Russian tanks began rumbling into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two restive, semi-autonomous provinces on Georgia’s northern border with Russia. They didn’t stop there, but continued south into Georgian towns and cities, seizing [...]
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sacramento
On August 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 [...]
by Ray Haynes Temecula
Yes Virginia, it is a tax increase, and no Aaron, the principled opposition to any new tax is not a partisan position. The Governor cannot avoid his responsibility for this crisis by calling on Legislators to end their political careers to bail him out of a situation he created. Had he [...]
by Doug McIntyre Los Angeles
Today is the 164th day since police say an illegal-alien gangbanger named Pedro Espinosa shot and killed 17-year-old high school football star Jamiel Shaw II.
The 164th day since Jamiel Shaw Sr. heard the gunshots that took his son’s life and propelled him down the block to find his boy dead in [...]
by Burt Prelutsky Los Angeles
Although I very much regret that I never had the chance to meet Jesse Helms, we did have what you might call a peripheral connection. The first took place nearly 20 years ago, when I was [...]
