The left has gone bonkers over Rush Limbaugh’s attack on a woman who testified on family planning and birth control at a recent Congressional hearing, and the mild self-rebuke that followed.  Limbaugh called […]

We’ve all heard about the war on drugs, war on women and war on Christmas, but did you know there’s a war on the AARP as well? A competitive organization with political overtones, AMAC (the Association of […]

Consider the possibility that we might need a nanny state – at least in some areas. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s war on super-sized sugary drinks has raised the specter of socialism and nanny state […]

In 1959, Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to embrace collective bargaining for their public sector unions. 53 years later, the voters of Wisconsin rebuffed public unions when the attempted recall […]

California’s state parks are admired by visitors from all over. Tourists come and are amazed at the quality and quantity of the state park system and envy us our bounty. California is also broke, in part […]

Results of California’s top-two open primary will undoubtedly leave some voters shaking their heads in consternation when they cast their ballots in November. First, there will be only a maximum of two […]

There was an amazing list of things that a white boy growing up in Virginia wasn’t allowed to do – not in the 1950s. You couldn’t use the same restrooms as blacks, couldn’t eat at the same restaurants as […]

Results of California’s top-two open primary will undoubtedly leave some voters shaking their heads in consternation when they cast their ballots in November. First, there will be only a maximum of two […]

In 1959, Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to embrace collective bargaining for their public sector unions. 53 years later, the voters of Wisconsin rebuffed public unions when the attempted recall […]

Linda Parks thinks she can become the first “I” in the House of Representatives by not being a “me, too” politician.

“Being independent gives me a platform for pushing the public good. It’s the people […]

During this period of economic crises for our country and its people, one would think the priority of national leaders would be finding solutions and working together to right the ship of state. But that is […]

If the United States ends up offering an “entrepreneur’s visa” for promising graduate students and new business developers, it will be following a trail blazed in other parts of the world. The United Kingdom […]

The U.S. recovery is the most hotly debated topic in national politics, but news from China may end up impacting the nation’s economy more than any of the strategies embraced by the presidential candidates. […]

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which created an environment of unbridled campaign financing through the funding of Super PACs, is now being challenged on at least four fronts.  In all cases, the […]

D’Marie Mulattieri, Independent candidate for the District 39 Congressional seat, is a radical thinker in a rational package.  She’s a fearless competitor who doesn’t mince words about how she would succeed […]

Two business careers and a stint as a Bay Area mayor are simply not enough for Peter Gilbert. Now the retiree wants to become a member of Lincoln, CA’s city council – a role that some would consider an […]

Let’s say you’ve earned $10,000 in the past three months, and that you lose $3,000 of that money at the local casino. What do you tell your family? If you’re a devotee of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, you […]

California’s top-two open primary election is a groundbreaking effort, but statistics show that it has a long way to go before it makes a substantive difference in terms of opening up the elections to

Jack Uppal would like to be leading the way to a kinder, gentler Congress. The candidate for the House seat representing California’s 4th Congressional District – a self-styled moderate Democrat – […]

If you’re looking for an example of dysfunction in Washington, look no further than the lead story last Friday that JPMorganChase had lost $2 billion in a risky hedge-fund bet. It’s just the type of trade […]

The simple truth about many who call themselves small government conservatives is that they favor neither small government nor conservative principles.  A case in point is the recent Rasmussen survey […]

There’s a virtual trade imbalance affecting California’s vaunted state university system that’s the result of both higher costs for public education in the Golden State and a diminution of quality in its […]

In the May issue of Consumer Reports magazine, Northern California regional grocer Raley’s ranked in the top 10 of grocery stores nationally, which makes the food chain’s labor problems all the more […]

Ever since Ronald Reagan faced down the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) in 1981, unions in America have been on the descent.  Today, unions sometime seem like anachronistic […]

While the U.S. economy continued to grow during the first quarter of 2012 (+2.2 percent on an annual basis), it grew at a reduced rate from the previous quarter (+3 percent), and slightly below expectations.  […]

There is no better argument against the two-party system than the current belligerence of Republicans and Democrats toward each other. This attitude leaves no room for collegiality or compromise; yet in a […]

It is possible – even likely – that the fracking process to extract natural gas and oil from underground rock formations causes earthquakes. The facts are clear: in the geographical part of the country […]

The facts and figures surrounding income inequality are so outrageous that it’s hard to understand why people aren’t more outraged about it. The fact is, the situation is more insidious in our lives than is […]

It’s easy to be sympathetic with calls to “get the bums out” of our federal and state legislative bodies; or to seek out a third party solution; or even to call for the end of the two-party system.  But I […]

Politicians are so fearful of corporations that they no longer need to worry about pleasing the populous as much as they need satisfy the wants and desires of “too big to fail” companies.  And the ability of […]

Is California making a great financial move, or is it short-selling in a panic trying to solve its budget crisis?  That’s the question that state-watchers should be asking about the so-called Golden State […]

In Rachel Maddow’s new book, “Drift: the Unmooring of American Military Power” (which we reported on here), she notes that an important inflexion point for the United States came when Lyndon Johnson chose not […]

Conventional wisdom has it that the United States is a declining producer of energy, and that we’re likely to need more imports unless we can work our way off of fossil fuels. But a recent New York Times […]

What happened to jobs in March has been called everything from disappointing to inconsequential, thus reinforcing the view that nobody knows what they’re talking about when it comes to measuring the economy’s […]

It is striking how all the talk about getting back to the Constitution focuses on social services such as health care and contraception that didn’t exist as such when the Founders were around.  On the […]