by Tom McClintock | Sacramento and D.C
[Remarks given to the How to Take Back America Conference]
A funny thing happened this summer on the Road to Serfdom. The American people decided we don’t want to go!
We are watching something unfold across the country that is quite remarkable. We are watching Americans do what Americans have [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then the California Legislature is indeed an “institution” in more than one sense of the word. Any notion that, because of the recession and related budget crisis, the Legislature would finally “get it” [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
Not long ago, a major California newspaper ran an editorial cartoon depicting pith-helmeted explorers peering through jungle growth at a crumbling temple where worshipers bow down before a stone alter on which is carved, “Prop. 13.” One of the explorers is saying to the other, “I believe we’ve stumbled upon the [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
Maybe because I was laid up with the flu, my defenses were down. Otherwise, even though I’d checked it out of the library, I probably wouldn’t have broken down and read Ronald Kessler’s “In the President’s [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
Before last year’s election, I heard a lot of people claim they didn’t feel they knew who Obama really was. For my part, I felt I knew him all too well. Which was why I didn’t [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
It was a little over 30 years ago that I first laid eyes on the remarkable Larry Gelbart. The occasion was our high school’s 50th anniversary. I had been selected to host the celebration in the [...]
by Burt Prelutsky | Los Angeles
For the longest time, I’ve insisted that liberalism is the religion of choice for atheists, agnostics and run-of-the-mill secularists. After all, be they Christians, Jews, Moslems or Buddhists, the truly devout accept the tenets of their [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
September is upon us and President Barack Obama finds himself up to his hips in problems, foreign and domestic, but it is the latter which seem to preoccupy him most. He desperately wants more movement on his domestic agenda and he needs a healthcare reform of some sort [...]
by Jon Coupal | Sacramento
Imagine an election where a proposal to increase taxes is declared by the taxing agency to have passed with fewer than 70 votes after the agency disqualified more than 1500 ballots that would have swung the election the other way. Then imagine that the decision to invalidate these ballots was made [...]
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. | Coronado
The bird, bug and bunny people have gone to great lengths to save many of the least of God’s creatures, often at more than minor inconvenience to human beings. Examples include such noble creatures as the California Least Tern, Snowy Plover and that all-time favorite, the Fairy Shrimp.
