WALTERBORO, S.C. — During opening arguments in the Alex Murdaugh double-murder trial, Wednesday, I was grateful not to be a member of the jury. The 12 citizens seated for what’s expected to be a three-week grind are the only ones in the courtroom who will see photos of the gruesome murder sc…
Nothing has changed
The next presidential race is on.
From the moment Asian-Americans and other students brought lawsuits against affirmative action admission policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, it was clear that even if they prevailed, not much would change in California.
A widely cited list of Twitter users who were described as “Russian bots” included “a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts,” according to an internal 2018 email from Yoel Roth, then the social media platform’s “trust & safety” chief.
Students in some Florida public schools got to class, this month, to find the books normally shelved in their teachers’ classrooms were either entirely gone or wrapped in paper. If this sounds like some kind of ban on literature, it’s because that’s exactly what it is.
Since Grover Cleveland was president, no one has accused the average politician of being principled or even consistent. Year after year, Republicans claim to care about fiscal prudence but, when in power, spend like Democrats.
Sharing opinions
By now you’ve probably experienced the sticker shock that came in the form of your natural gas bill for January.
The day many of us have been waiting for since the latter part of 2020 will soon arrive. Well, soonish — we will have to wait until May 11. That’s the day that COVID-19 emergency declarations will end.
Life on Mars?
If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the US economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.
California has a problem and no solution in sight — at least not that we can clearly see.
More on Cuba
The spate of heavy rainstorms that swept across California during the early weeks of January exposed a lot of problems: weak bridges, inadequate reservoir capacity, poor drainage on many city streets and helplessness in the face of inevitable mudslides, to name just a few.
A man is being held on $5 million bail after being arrested, on Sunday evening, by the California Highway Patrol.
Fourteen Democratic members of Congress have introduced legislation to lower the voting age in the United States from 18 to 16. Their bill would repeal the 26th Amendment, which, in 1971, established 18 as the minimum voting age nationwide, and replace it with a new 28th Amendment making 16-…
After a hiatus during the Trump years, Republicans are back in the mood for fiscal probity.
Re-think tipping
A dangerous green agenda
California reigned for decades as the unmatched destination for people around the country. Now people can’t leave fast enough.
There have been a few complaints recently in the letters from readers section about other letter writers.
As tax season begins, the IRS is making a show of using its newly expanded budget to improve the agency’s “customer service,” mainly by trying to answer the questions of perplexed taxpayers more than 13% of the time.
Have you heard? The world is about to end!
The trial in the Anthony Avalos case began, yesterday, for Heather Barron, the boy’s mother and her boyfriend Kareem Ernesto Leiva.
Thanks Palmdale
If you follow policy debates long enough, arguments you never thought you’d hear can become key components of the two parties’ policy platforms.
Humanity is headed for complete annihilation because of man-made actions — at least that’s what the Doomsday Clock is signaling, as it moved closer than ever to midnight.
It’s not fun
How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) berate the Trump tax cuts as “a giveaway to the rich”?
Are there any high-ranking politicians in Washington who actually take classified material seriously?
Trump did it
Battery power
Another tragedy struck the Southland over the weekend as people celebrated the Lunar New Year at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on West Garvey Avenue in Monterey Park.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association, the largest teachers union in the state, has unveiled its top priorities for the next two years.
T-Mobile customers beware. An unidentified malicious intruder breached the cell provider’s network, in late November, and stole data on 37 million customers.
Good for a chuckle
It’s become a cliché, the shibboleth that California has lousy public schools and most of the kids don’t care.
Every day, people around the world post about 720,000 hours of new content on YouTube — 500 hours of video every minute.
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The long and tedious battle for House speaker ended with the GOP arguably more focused on fiscal responsibility and cutting spending. To accomplish this, Republicans are demanding spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
So far, 2023 has been one that will forever be remembered because of the length of time it took Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to finally get the gavel in his long sought-after bid to become House speaker.
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President Joe Biden’s Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings.
Kool-Aid and foil hats
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