by Daniel R. Ballon | San Francisco
State lawmakers last week passed the largest tax increase in California history, and will soon consider taking their expanding quest for revenue online. A proposal by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) would force many Internet retailers to collect sales tax on all orders placed by California consumers. Based on a [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
If ever there was a crisis that warranted a swift, non-partisan approach to finding solutions, the current economic meltdown would be it. With the economy in free-fall, companies failing, jobs and homes being lost and credit disappearing, the public is desperate for relief. But even with the nation [...]
by Amy Kaleita | San Francisco
In his inaugural address, new President Barack Obama said he intended to “restore science to its rightful place” in government. Several days later, Obama again claimed a change in approach, saying, “Rigid ideology has overruled sound science. Special interests have overshadowed common sense. Rhetoric has not led to the hard [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
The pictures told the story. They were laughing, back-slapping and sharing high fives all around. It could have been Butch Cassidy and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang celebrating a successful train robbery. Only these were malefactors of another sort. They were members of the Legislature expressing their joy immediately after agreeing to make [...]
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by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
Members of the Mafia have to take a vow of silence, and if they break it, they face the very real possibility of winding up dead. Liberals have their own version of the vow. However, [...]
by John R. Graham | San Francisco
Nada Suleman and her eight babies are much in the news, with good reason. There are lessons here for everyone, and they extend beyond the fertility debate.
Ms. Suleman is the divorced mother who gave birth to eight babies on January 26. Kaiser Permanente clearly viewed the event as a [...]
by Jon Coupal and John Kabateck | Sacramento
Over the last three days, California has come perilously close to committing economic suicide. What is so frightening is that taxpayers have, for now, avoided by only a single vote the passage of a legislative package imposing the largest tax increase ever presented to any statehouse in America. [...]
by Rachel Neuwirth | Los Angeles
Most of the American and European media have accused Israel of having committed “war crimes” in its recent “assault” on Gaza, and of waging war indiscriminately on its civilian population. Israel is said to have damaged schools, hospitals, ambulances and mosques and to have inflicted an immense number of deaths [...]
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by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
Lately, it seems every time I turn around I hear about some politician or bureaucrat who is absolutely indispensable. As often as not, these people are talking about themselves. And, frankly, if this keeps up, [...]
by Lawrence J. McQuillan and K. Lloyd Billingsley | San Francisco
Traditional tort law holds that manufacturers are responsible only for their own products, not those made by competitors. The California Supreme Court changed that in late January by declining to review Conte v. Wyeth, which leaves name-brand drug manufacturers liable for harm caused by another [...]
