On July 12, Alexander Acosta announced his resignation from the labor secretary position on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.
Different opinions
The American middle class just got a lot richer.
Getting fact-checked cuts two ways. It means the fact-checkers pay attention to what I say. It also means I should expect liberal bias from the checkers.
Noah Cuatro, 4, of Palmdale, died under suspicious circumstances.
Rah, rah, rah
In a somewhat bizarre outdoor press briefing Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data through means other than the U.S. census.
It’s time for a change
There’s one word Gov. Gavin Newsom has assiduously avoided in the days since he proposed a new $30.5 billion Wildfire Fund that would help the state’s big privately-owned utilities pay off damage claims from forest and brush fires their lines have sparked or helped to cause: Bailout.
WASHINGTON — It helps to know people in high places, especially if you’re a sex offender and your name is Jeffrey Epstein.
The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could not be canceled, abridged or re…
The city of Dunedin, Florida, wants Jim Ficken’s home.
Possibly by the end of the year, investors can buy shares in Virgin Galactic, which is busy testing its SpaceshipTwo in Mojave.
That’s not leading
In virtually every state of the union, the new fiscal year began on July 1, and in virtually every state of the union, the legislature passed a budget before the deadline arrived. Only in Massachusetts and Ohio have lawmakers failed to put together a spending bill to fund the government for …
Is it cruelty, or is it corruption? That’s a question that comes up whenever we learn about some new, extraordinary abuse by the Trump administration — something that seems to happen just about every week. And the answer, usually, is “both.”
The innovative spirit that has expanded America’s culture for centuries can be illuminated by this fact:
The response to
The monthly national job report on July 5 topped out at a comfortable, welcome 224,000 level.
It has always puzzled me that anyone would believe that protecting the U.S. market with tariffs is a good idea.
Hurt feelings and no caffeine
Oversight and reform needed
The video seemed ordinary enough, until you saw who was talking in mid-June: O.J. Simpson, the last century’s most prominent might-have-been-murderer.
The Earthquake Country Alliance has worked with experts in earthquake science, preparedness, and mitigation to develop this step-by-step guide for staying safe, before, during and after an earthquake.
No wait for the wealthy
WASHINGTON — If California Sen. Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: priva…
That’s the question being asked in a Politico article written by M. Scott Mahaskey and Peter Canellos, that was published on the Fourth of July.
WASHINGTON — In January, a reporter contacted the nascent Biden campaign to request an interview. She wanted to ask the former vice president about lingering criticisms that were bound to come up on the trail: how, as a senator, he failed Anita Hill; his lead role in the 1994 crime bill; his…
Action, reaction
WASHINGTON — “Surreal” was the word Ivanka Trump used to describe North Korea, which she briefly visited this past weekend with dear ol’ dad.
Western civilization was founded on a set of philosophies that focus strongly on the sanctity of individuals and their power of logic and reason. This belief led to a desire to trust things that could be proven to be true or legitimate, from government to science. Judeo-Christian morality ha…
Happy Fourth of July!
America’s Navy is developing a new concept for its vessels that may lead to major changes in commercial and other governmental workplaces across the United States.
From the ashes of last year’s huge fires in Butte, Shasta, Lake and Los Angeles counties, this state’s utilities have suddenly acquired vast new powers to control and influence the lives of millions of Californians.
Falling in love
Did the Russians pay the 2020 Democratic candidates to throw the 2020 election to President Donald Trump? Watching all four hours of the first Democratic debates, it became increasingly difficult to reach any other conclusion.
He’s not interested
‘Vice President Biden,” demanded Kamala Harris in the climactic encounter of last Thursday’s Democratic debate, “do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then?”
The California Senate is working to pass Senate Bill 58 that would permit the sale of alcohol to continue from 2-4 a.m. The pilot program would take place in 10 of California’s major cities and would span five years beginning in 2022.
There are some things that are just plain wrong — robbery, burglary, bribery and partisan gerrymandering, defined as the practice of setting boundaries of electoral districts to favor specific political interests within legislative bodies, often resulting in districts with convoluted, windin…
Roundabout competition?
Last week’s debates clearly weakened Joe Biden and increased the odds that a more definitively progressive candidate — probably Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren — will win the nomination. And you can hear the wailing from much of the Beltway, the claims that Democrats are moving too far left.
Liar, liar
On July 4, 1776, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
President Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here’s a score for him: America, zero; while the rest of the world keeps tallying up free trade points.
The United States Supreme Court on June 27 ended its 2018-2019 session, which began last October. It was a work year that unfolded against a volatile political background and as individual justices faced their own delicate dilemmas.
Vote for them
Build 3.5 million new dwelling units by 2025 and California’s housing shortage will be solved, Gov. Gavin Newsom prescribed during his campaign last year and several times since.
The Democrats second debate on Thursday night offered a popcorn bag of mixed answers, hard political hits and multiple opinions.
Keeping the
At least three score years ago, my savvy precinct committeewoman impressed upon me an immutable political truth: Every election is not about the candidate(s); no, every election is about the voters ... and about the future. I’m relieved that my precinct committeewoman was not around to hear …
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