Indentured servitude for young? Older person says, ‘why not?’
Forcing an individual to spend one year, two years, three years, whatever, of their lives doing something they don’t want to do should be something that’s close to unthinkable in a free society —...
View Article7 UC Davis probes? Why not 100? Liberal institutions, show how much you care!
The pepper-spraying of the passive UC Davis students last month was a stomach-turning abuse of police authority, which I think is far more common than most Americans believe. Cellphone videos turn up...
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Nanny State fiasco at L.A. Unified: Lunch is like ‘dog food’
Nanny Staters are typically oblivious to how the world works. They are also bafflingly confident that people like being bullied, implored or required to live their lives in a way Nanny Staters approve....
View ArticleSkelton’s new low! ‘Hard to find anyone’ who doesn’t think tax hikes should...
In fall 1972, legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael expressed amazement after reading that Richard Nixon was a heavy favorite for re-election. Why? Because she didn’t know anyone in her...
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All hail Commerce Clause: It blocks part of AB 32, maybe Obamacare, too
Great news, for once, on the AB 32 front, with a Fresno federal judge blocking part of California’s 2006 law mandating a switch to cleaner but much costlier forms of energy on the grounds that it...
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‘Half-baked’ too kind to ‘CalPERS for all.’‘Baked’ is more like it.
State Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Solana Beach, once told me that he would meet prominent people in Sacramento, not street-corner crazies, who were surprised to hear Wyland say the economy was in the dump or...
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