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Last Updated: Dec 14th, 2008 - 17:36:23

Columns - Political  


Columns - Political
Government Belongs to Us
In October 2007, a column was written about the California Highway Patrol's 11-99 Foundation. When a person donated a minimum of $5,000, he or she was given a license plate frame and a membership card that (coincidentally) could be placed next to that person's driver's license.
Dec 14, 2008, 16:14 PST

Columns - Political
Blankity Blank Blanks
They told me why they're so angry. They raised six children. They played by the rules. The America they know rewarded hard work and thrift, not stupidity and bad decisions.

Oct 20, 2008, 07:35 PST

Columns - Political
Why Obama
We are a nation that is not forged by a shared ethnic background to hold us together but by a shared ideal that benefits those who arrived over two hundred years ago and those who found this haven only yesterday.

Oct 19, 2008, 15:44 PST

Columns - Political
John the Candidate
Raging Moderate

For the third consecutive debate, the Grand OLD Man of the Grand Old Party neglected to include a single mention of the middle class...

Oct 17, 2008, 18:00 PST

Columns - Political
Panic-Stricken Mother Facing Charges - Safe Haven Laws
Panic-stricken and afraid, a young woman, aged 22, thinking she read online that it is legal to leave a baby anonymously at a church as a "safe haven," had left her child. No one knew but her ex-boyfriend that she was pregnant. She had carried the baby girl one-third of a mile to the local Presbyterian Church, and left her near the entrance in hopes of giving her daughter a better life.

Oct 17, 2008, 08:34 PST

Columns - Political
Pinning the Tail on the Donkey
Making Sense

The scandal of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dwarfs the Enron debacle. In Enron, people went to jail. With the Fannies, some just walked away with millions....

Sep 19, 2008, 07:34 PST

Columns - Political
It's Time For Rage
Making Sense

Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most -- in our pockets.

Jul 6, 2008, 20:04 PST

Columns - Political
Bugged By Global Warming
Bugs. They want us to eat bugs. I speak of a recent article in Time that explains why eating bugs is good for the environment...

Jun 16, 2008, 17:27 PST

Columns - Political
Symbolism Over Substance Kills
Making Sense

Instead of worrying about slavery which ended 140 years ago, the Los Angeles city council should worry about the people in the inner city who are enslaved in their own homes with bars on the windows and doors. They are enslaved because they are frightened about the shootings taking place in the streets outside each and every day and each and every night....
May 27, 2008, 08:02 PST

Columns - Political
The Importance of Being Present
Presidential candidate and former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt has dug himself an early grave in his pursuit of the White House. During his campaign, since the first of the year, he has missed 84% of the votes in the House of Representatives, showing up for fewer than one vote out of every five.


May 13, 2008, 07:52 PST

Columns - Political
Disabled Vets Face a New War
Making Sense

I was in Washington Wednesday and while there I visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center and spoke with a number of amputees disabled while defending us in Iraq...
May 9, 2008, 06:26 PST

Columns - Political
Michael Jackson Needs Help, Lots of It
Making Sense

I don't know what happened to Michael Jackson when he was a child, but whatever it was, it created a badly scarred human being capable of badly scarring a new generation of youngsters.
May 5, 2008, 08:30 PST

Columns - Political
Democrats’ Suicide Impulse Emerging - Making Sense
To start the Democrats' triumphant march towards January, when they will assume actual control over the House, Democrats handed Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi a humiliating defeat in her first effort to assert her control of her party.
May 4, 2008, 06:56 PST

Columns - Political
Cut Off U.S., U.N. Aid
The Palestinian people have delivered a resounding vote against peace — calling, in their election, for a continuation of the savage and sanguinary war against Israel. This sharp reversal in the peace process should not go without a vigorous response from Washington.
Apr 28, 2008, 13:27 PST

Columns - Political
Making Sausage
Making Sense

Watching developments in the war on terrorism and the current Iraq situation as reported by the media is a lot like watching sausage being made.

Apr 27, 2008, 07:22 PST

Columns - Political
Prince Bandar’s "Power" – A Gift From John Kerry
John Kerry has been ranting and raving about Saudi Prince Bandar’s clout with the Bush administration, complaining of an alleged "secret" deal between the U.S. and the Saudis that would keep oil prices low before the 2004 election.
Apr 26, 2008, 08:36 PST

Columns - Political
Gas Prices: Bush’s Rebound Fuel
The key is to seize the day. The president’s pathetically weak warning that we are facing a long, hot summer and that gas prices might rise even more sounds helpless and removed. Instead of lamenting high prices, he should pounce on the opportunity to lead America away from an oil-dependent economy.

Apr 25, 2008, 10:24 PST

Columns - Political
The Outing Game - Making Sense
Mike Rogers is a scandalmonger who calls himself a “Gay activist blogger” devoted to “outing” alleged closet-gay Republicans.

Apr 23, 2008, 10:27 PST

Columns - Political
Riding Toward A Fall - Making Sense
After Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal, my father, Ronald Reagan, grabbed hold of the issue and never let go. He rode that horse all the way into the White House. President Bush needs to think about that because if he fails to back down and at least give the opponents of the Dubai ports deal a chance to be heard, the Democrats are going to mount this gift horse and ride it into the White House just as my Dad did with an issue Jimmy Carter handed to him.
Apr 23, 2008, 06:37 PST

Columns - Political
Privacy? What Privacy?
Do we really have any privacy anymore? Take a look at this tongue in cheek look at the loss of our rights to privacy...

Apr 22, 2008, 10:16 PST

Columns - Political
Whose Side Are We On?
Making Sense

Now, with the nomination of Harriet Miers, it’s as if there is no such thing as a Ginsberg Rule, we want to know everything – especially how she feels about abortion. Why are they asking merely that, but not about how she feels about eminent domain or affirmative action or gay marriage or any other hot button issue certain to come before the court? Don’t they matter?
Apr 21, 2008, 12:46 PST

Columns - Political
Assessing the War on Terrorism
With British Muslims hatching plots to blow up airplanes with liquid explosives and our all-out war on terrorism nearing its fifth anniversary, it's a good time to check in with Steven Emerson.
Apr 21, 2008, 08:24 PST

Columns - Political
Ronald Reagan Lost Iowa and Arnold Can Lose California
Making Sense

If Arnold Schwarzenegger is serious about becoming governor of California he had better climb down from his celebrity perch and start acting like a candidate.
Apr 20, 2008, 10:08 PST

Columns - Political
How To Be Losers
If the Democrats want to know why they keep losing, all they have to do is run a replay of Martin Luther King Day.
Apr 20, 2008, 09:08 PST

Columns - Political
It's Not a Campaign, It's a Temper Tantrum
Making Sense

"If I had to find a definition for the Democrat campaign for the presidency it would be that it's a temper tantrum. "
Apr 20, 2008, 06:43 PST

Columns - Political
Illegal Immigration: The Poison Fruit of Mexican Corruption
Making Sense

John Gibson asked me the other day on Fox TV why hordes of Mexicans flee their homeland and enter the U.S. illegally. My answer: the cancer of corruption that afflicts every level of Mexican society and restricts even the smallest forms of economic opportunity for the poorest Mexicans.


Apr 20, 2008, 05:55 PST

Columns - Political
If Osama Were to Speak to the Grads
If Osama gave the graduation speech to our children, what would he say? Tom Purcell takes a decidedly jaundiced look at the traditional commencement speech.

Apr 17, 2008, 09:39 PST

Columns - Political
Go to the Source for the Facts About the Border Fence
For reasons I’ll never understand, some of my fellow conservative talk-show hosts have turned to that bible of liberalism – The Washington Post – to get the “facts” about the U.S.-Mexico border fence just authorized by Congress. If they wanted to get the real story -- and not the misleading one they read in the October 6 edition of the Post -- they could easily have done what I did and called Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the man who wrote the bill mandating the building of the 700-mile border fence....


Apr 16, 2008, 05:20 PST

Columns - Political
Bruised Egos - Making Sense
The pellet wounds suffered by Vice President Cheney’s hunting companion Harry Whittington were mere scratches compared to the damage done to the egos – and reputations – of the crybabies in White House press corps. They have been mortally wounded, and the wounds are self-inflicted
Apr 15, 2008, 13:11 PST

Columns - Political
Free Colonel Allen West
Last June the FBI arrested a 20 year-old college student who was plotting to bomb Coast Guard and National Guard bases in Washington state. For this grievous offense soft hearted old Uncle Sam made a deal with him which his lawyer says will allow this punk kid to be out of the slammer by Christmas. Contrast that to the treatment now being accorded to a genuine American hero, Lt. Col. Allen B. West who now faces serious punishment and the end of his distinguished military career in the United States Army for saving the lives of his men.

Apr 13, 2008, 12:51 PST

Columns - Political
An Attempted Assassination
Political Column

Some time ago I wrote that given the current political climate, where smearing an opponent is the favorite strategy of the many demagogues running for office or seeking to hang onto a job they hold, I would not think about being a candidate for any public office. ... As I look at what the thoroughly discredited governor of California and his conscienceless allies in the media are doing to Arnold Schwarzenegger I realize just how right I was.
Apr 13, 2008, 07:47 PST

Columns - Political
The Endless Saga of Hillary Clinton
Making Sense

"She's never going to go away. Just when you think you've heard the last of her, she pops up like the proverbial bad penny. Christ told us that "the poor you will always have with you." I'm afraid the same is true of Hillary Clinton, we will always have her with us...."
Apr 11, 2008, 08:30 PST

Columns - Political
The Al Sharpton Factor- Wild Card for '04
Will civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton be the Ralph Nader of 2004?
Apr 10, 2008, 14:08 PST

Columns - Political
This Time Around Let's Not Be So Stupid - Making Sense
Hillary Clinton's assault on president Bush's economic policies is a dead giveaway to the fact that she's going after the Democrat presidential nomination next year, not in 2008 as all the so-called experts have been predicting.
Apr 7, 2008, 08:30 PST

Columns - Political
Bush Can Lose
There is so much mythology surrounding the dramatic fall of Bush I from dizzying heights of popularity after the Gulf War to defeat less than two years later that the essential and real risk Bush II runs of repetition may be obscured and his campaign team could draw the wrong lessons from a misguided view of history.
Apr 7, 2008, 08:22 PST

Columns - Political
Queen Noos Anti-Semitism
Strife in the Middle East? It's the Jews who are at fault, her majesty informs us in "Leap of Faith," her new best-selling autobiography: "Jews, Muslims, and Christians had lived peacefully in the Middle East and indeed in Palestine for centuries." Disguised fiction? You decide...
Apr 7, 2008, 08:15 PST

Columns - Political
Greens Turn California Black
Fires have killed a number of people and devastated 800 square miles of Southern California, leaving it black and smoldering... Micheal Reagan strikes out against the environmentalists he feels are at the cause of it all.
Apr 4, 2008, 07:08 PST

Columns - Political
Bias-mongers On Rocks As Viewers Taste Straight News
I am sure we were all surprised to learn in the Aug. 11 issue of 'The New York Times' that people are burned out on serious news.
Apr 2, 2008, 06:28 PST

Columns - Political
A Democrat Election; A Republican Primary
Making Sense

On October 7, if the federal courts keep their noses out of California's business, there will be a recall election to get rid of the odious Gray Davis. Immediately following will be a free-for-all to determine who'll replace him.
Apr 2, 2008, 06:22 PST

Columns - Political
Old School Values

Sister Dale McDonald, Director of Public Policy and Education Research at the National Catholic Educational Association, told me that declining enrollment is a national trend. Though there is some growth in the South and the West, Catholic schools are shutting down at the rate of more than 100 per year.

Mar 31, 2008, 07:57 PST




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