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- The Return of the Fuzzies - April 8, 2009
- Yet the Math Wars continue in California, as well as in New Jersey, Oregon and elsewhere. In Palo Alto, parent and former Bush education official Ze'ev...
- Lost and Found on Fringes of First Family - April 4, 2009
- What does that mean? Obama asked. As he wrote in his compelling memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Onyango answered, "Don't get lost" is a common expression:...
- Europe on the Cheap - April 1, 2009
- Now, with gasoline in the $2 per gallon range, Obama's brainstorm for a successful business model is to create "the next generation of clean cars." Get it: GM and...
- Pelosi on 'Un-American' Immigration Law - March 23, 2009
- In 2003, Pelosi accused ICE of "terrorizing" workers after agents raided a number of Wal-Mart stores for hiring and contracting undocumented janitors. By the...
- Congress, Overtax Thyself - March 21, 2009
- But as Americans keep discovering, bad can get worse. Witness the House bill that passed Thursday by a 328-93 vote to levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses for...
- Tree Sitter Is Not in Berkeley Anymore - March 18, 2009
- In June 2008, Anderson, who goes by the name "Cricket," was arrested and charged with trespassing and violating a court order -- and still he was able to...
- Obama on the Economy: Both Sides Now - March 16, 2009
- President Obama himself said last week, "If we are keeping focused on all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy ... then we're going to get through...
- The Drug War Body Count - March 14, 2009
- Now, that baby step is big. They should have used the L-word, legalize, as decriminalizing drugs would leave trafficking and big profits under the control of...
- Richard Allen Davis: Safe on Death Row - March 11, 2009
- "Who would think it would take almost as long for this guy to get his hearing after he was sentenced to death than my daughter was on this Earth and she...
- Newsweek, Frum Fall for White House Spin - March 9, 2009
- Thus Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called Limbaugh "ugly" and "incendiary." Not a smart move. Later Steele called Limbaugh to apologize - adding...
- A Mud Fight of Civil Rights - March 7, 2009
- Or as George reminded a lawyer for the anti-Proposition 8 side who had been leaning on the 4-3 ruling, "Today we have a different state constitution, don't we?" ...
- Profound Irresponsibility Redux - March 4, 2009
- It's not that cutting taxes in itself is bad, but it is hardly responsible to tell Americans that they can benefit from more than $1 trillion in new...
- The Heat Is On True Believers - March 2, 2009
- Then again, Clinton knew that the Senate would not ratify the pact. Before Gore flew to Kyoto, the Senate had voted 95-0 in favor of a resolution that declared that...
- B.T. Collins, RIP - February 28, 2009
- After he was elected to the Assembly in a 1991 special election, Collins view of the institution did not improve. Collins complained, according to his...
- Cutting Off Your News To Spite Your Face - February 25, 2009
- As for those who only read their news online, here's a news flash: News stories do not sprout up like Jack's beanstalk on the Internet. To produce news, you...
- Bad Times Visit Our Betters in Europe - February 21, 2009
- It was not that long ago that market watchers hailed Brown as the savvy Euro-technocrat who, as the United Kingdom's former chancellor of the exchequer, understood...
- The Celtic Tiger Hits Bad Times - February 18, 2009
- "This poem" -- ("The Run Upon the Bankers") -- "was printed some years ago, and it should seem, by the late failure of two bankers, to be somewhat...
- Fiscal Responsibility 2009 - February 12, 2009
- Will they ever be responsible for the choices they make? I can understand Obama talking about the economic ills which he inherited in terms of Treasury...
- Harry Beats Goliath - February 9, 2009
- Asked to replicate Madoff's investment strategy in 2000, Markopolos had begun to look at various Madoff funds. Within five minutes of examining one fund, he...
- Dysfunctional Familiy Making - February 7, 2009
- Doctors' understandable desire to help infertile couples conceive children has led to medical advances that are not necessarily healthy for children. The new...
- Stimulus in Spend City - February 4, 2009
- Tuesday, Obama told CNN that he thought the House was "remarkably disciplined" in putting together a stimulus package. Two weeks in office, and already Obama...
- Car and Driver - February 2, 2009
- Now come reports that Obama's pick to be both his health policy czar and secretary for Health and Human Services -- former Senate Democratic Leader Tom...
- Prison or Versailles? - January 31, 2009
- "The overarching value" of Plan Kelso is to create "a health care facility that cares for prisoners as patients and not a prison that cares for health care...
- Obama Should Act on Medical Marijuana - January 28, 2009
- "During the presidential campaign," the press release continued, "Obama repeatedly promised not to waste federal resources interfering in states with laws...
- The Gay Community is Losing Friends - January 24, 2009
- Worse, that prank threw the same-sex marriage issue to the courts - when it was clear that, within a matter of years, California voters would legalize same-sex marriage...
- Still Waiting for Hard Choices - January 21, 2009
- So began the "new era of responsibility." You can counter that most inaugural speeches don't say much. Fair enough. You also could say that the very fact...
- The Final Bush Pardons - January 20, 2009
- When Bush commuted the 30-month sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, he did not fully pardon Libby. He let a...
- Bush Showed U.S. Is No Paper Tiger - January 17, 2009
- To trash Bush was to belong. There was little upside in supporting Bush, even if you had supported his agenda. Most of the Democratic candidates...
- Arnold's State of the State -- Not So Good - January 16, 2009
- At the time, I wrote, "Schwarzenegger is showing Sacramento what a man can do when he's not afraid to take risks." Wrong.Cut to 2009. Schwarzenegger found out that when...
- From Jack Bauer to Leon Panetta - January 12, 2009
- The interrogation methods cited in the New York Times exist in a different universe. Yes, the techniques, which some Bush administration critics want to...
- Governator, the Sequel - January 10, 2009
- I wonder if Democrats are anxious to nominate Your Father's Oldsmobile when there are newer models -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa or EssEff Mayor...
- Empty Seats - January 7, 2009
- Then Reid added to the damage. Burris has not been implicated in the Blagojevich corruption probe, yet King Harry impugned Burris -- then refused to seat him...
- Eric Holder and All Political Prisoners - January 5, 2009
- Back to Holder. Inside money would bet that Republicans will use Holder's Jan. 15 Senate confirmation hearing to grill him on his role in President Bill...
- Big Brother/Backseat Driver - January 3, 2009
- Why not simply raise the gas tax so that Hummer owners continue to pay more than drivers of four-cylinder put-puts? "It's very difficult to raise...
- Unpardonable - December 29, 2008
- And the fact that Toussie's father recently and uncharacteristically donated $28,500 to the Republican National Committee would taint any presidential pardon...
- Free the Saddleback One - December 22, 2008
- It's true that Obama opposed Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban approved by California voters in November, on the grounds that codifying a same-sex ban...
- Free the California 52,000? - December 13, 2008
- Now Kelso is demanding $8 billion to renovate the system -- even though the state is spending about $14,000 on health care per inmate, according to the...
- Bailout Generation - December 10, 2008
- Her answer: "The first question is: How do you do a tax cut and fight a war, which is what George Bush did." Funny thing. Stabenow seemed genuinely and...
- Prohibition's Second Act - December 6, 2008
- World Health Organization researchers found that 42.4 percent of Americans had tried marijuana -- the highest ratio of any of 17 countries surveyed. New...
- Obama and His New Crew - December 3, 2008
- Poor Joe Biden. With Hillary Clinton in charge, it looks as if he will be attending funerals -- not, as he may have imagined, pontificating and passing on to...