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Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 14, 2013
Did it take courage to do what Bob Fletcher did? Fletcher was a California resident who died this June at the age of 101. The New York Times reports how he helped Japanese neighbors after the U.S. began interning Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast, a shameful policy adopted after…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: December 28, 2016
In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H club — the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. Delivered in San Diego, California, by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, September 11, 1970, as written by William Safire, speechwriter
Relevance: 46% Posted on: October 16, 2011
My week began with a celebration: The centennial of California’s initiative process. I wrote about it at Common Sense, the daily commentary I’ve penned since 1999 (you can sign up for the email version on the Citizens in Charge website). “The enormous impact of California’s initiative process can hardly be…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: September 28, 2016
California has become the 32nd state to stand up for the dying. Gov. Jerry Brown just signed the “right to try” law that the Goldwater Institute has been pushing. It allows diagnosed terminally ill patients with only a few months left to live to try “experimental” medications. These are drugs…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: July 30, 2021
Congress is about to make the lives of an awful lot of people an awful lot harder. So what else is new? But the legislation in play does seem new — in suddenness and scope. It would impose massive newfangled regimentation on how we make a living. And it would…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: March 21, 2015
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 15, 2024
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 14, 2012
Getting good estimates is not easy. Anyone who’s hired a contractor knows to make sure the estimates are sound by insisting that bidders stick to their estimates. This is not what happens in government, though. Projects almost always start out with a whopping figure for an estimate . . .…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 30, 2020
Progressives who lean socialist used to hide their worst intentions. Now they are letting it all hang out. There have always been overt socialists in the U.S., of course. They would sometimes protest the reluctance of fellow travelers to fully embrace socialism’s moniker. But the sentiment “Ah, screw it, let’s…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 19, 2022
It wouldn’t surprise me if Tiffany McHugh, former director of the Foothills Christian Church Preschool in San Diego, wishes now that she had been running a preschool in a slack state like Florida. Florida doesn’t penalize such malefaction. It doesn’t even prohibit it. Yes, things have gotten pretty bad in…