by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
Recently, I had a very odd experience. No, I didn’t wake up 30 years younger and with a full head of hair. That would have been odd but nice, whereas the experience I actually had was [...]
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sacramento
Nevada is running a rather edgy advertising campaign to lure businesses from the Golden State to the Silver State. This could serve as a wakeup call for California, but the response so far is not encouraging.
The $1 million campaign from the Nevada Development Authority puts a porcine spin on [...]
by Tom McClintock | Sacramento and D.C
Floor Speech by Rep. McClintock
I want to thank my colleague from Utah, Mr. Bishop, for organizing this special order for the House tonight, and for the attention he has devoted to the suffering in my district caused by the lunatic fringe of the environmental movement that seems to [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
You can almost hear promoters of a state constitutional convention saying, “Hey Buddy, want to trade your cow for some magic beans?” For Jack this deal worked out in the end, but for taxpayers being asked to trust those peddling a constitutional convention as a panacea for our state’s problems, we [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison where he was supposed to be serving a minimum 27-year term. He was sentenced by a Scottish judge in 2001 for the murder of 270 innocent persons who died in the explosion and crash of [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible Americans actually began to believe it. Now we have [...]
by Amy Kaleita | San Francisco
A recent study of paleoclimate, the results of which appear in the August issue of Nature Geoscience, finds that today’s climate models do not accurately predict the most similar previous episode of climate warming in the geologic record. While this should not cast doubt on the value of climate models [...]
by Cinnamon Stillwell | San Francisco
Do the ranks of Middle East studies professors include terrorists? If the allegations against University of Ottawa professor Hassan Diab are proved true, the answer will be yes.
Diab, a Lebanese-born dual Canadian citizen and author of Beirut: Reviving Lebanon’s Past, is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Ottawa [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
The increasingly strident debate on health care reform, the centerpiece of the Obama domestic agenda, has degenerated into virtual hysteria, generating much heat but little light on the questions troubling Americans. It’s hardly surprising. President Obama, after all, left the job of designing a new health care system [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
Several years ago, Stephan Pastis, the creator of “Pearls Before Swine,” drew a cartoon that illustrates the threat now faced by taxpayers. In the comic, Zebra is complaining to his friend Goat that he was being sued by crocodiles. The crocodiles’ cause of action? “Defendant Zebra has willfully failed to be [...]
