Nina Burleigh, the reporter who last made headlines when she encouraged women to thank former President Bill Clinton for keeping abortion legal by donning kneepads and doing a ... how shall I phrase this ... a Lewinsky, has written an article for Salon.com [you've got to watch a short ad to read it] where she […]
Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni is one of a handful of former generals who are demanding that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resign for stuff that happened three years ago. Unfortunately, Zinni apparently doesn't follow the lead of former Gen. George Washington. Zinni can tell a lie, or, if not a lie, he can conveniently forget things. […]
Many of the recent pro-illegal-immgration rallies nationwide occurred during the average person's workweek. One of the first thoughts through my, and other people's I'm sure, mind was: "Don't these people have jobs?" The answer appears to be: They did.
It looks like the GOP will hold on to California's 50th congressional district after after Democrat Francine Busby failed to get the 50 percent plus 1 vote needed to avoid a runoff. Unless there is a wild swing in yet-uncounted absentee and provisional ballots, Busby will face former Congressman Brian Bilbray in June. In a […]
Take a look at this editorial in The Washington Post of all places vis a vis the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial that I wrote about last week.
So, the Senate has apparently come up with a compromise that would allow all the people who broke America's immigration laws more than two years ago to stay in the United States and eventually become citizens. The logic behind allowing this "earned amnesty" is that it would cripple our economy to round up the estimated […]
Democrats debating the Senate immigration measure yesterday defeated an amendment that would prevent convicted felons from becoming citizens. Democrats said the amendment would "gut" the immigration bill under consideration in the Senate and refused to allow a vote on it. "It hurts the bill," said Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. "It hurts the very […]
When it comes to thoughtful, intelligent political analysis, San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval isn't the man to provide it. We last saw Sandoval in February when he was advocating the complete disarmament of America's military -- except the Coast Guard -- and assured us that we could be protected by cops. He returned to last […]
Last week the Oceanside Unified School District closed down its high schools and junior high schools Thursday and Friday after several days of student protests. The justification for closing the schools was "student safety." Oceanside schools Superintendent Ken Noonan ordered the closure of the district's middle and high schools because of a growing concern for […]