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California is starting to issue IOUs and what is the state legislature hard at work on? It's impossible to make things like this up.

If the President Bush had attempted to illegally fire an inspector general who was raising a ruckus over a deal cut with a campaign supporter who had spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on his personal whims, the press would be going ape. It's not, but that's exactly what the mainstream media has been […]

Octavio Sanchez, a Honduran lawyer who has served as a presidential adviser and minister of culture for that Central American nation, gives Americans a primer on that nation's constitution -- one President Barack Obama would do well to read. These are the facts: On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees […]

Former Copley Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Herb Klein died today at the age of 91. Klein was also notable as the first-ever White House communications director, serving President Richard Nixon. I met Klein several years ago when I had the audacity to apply for a job opening for an editorial writer at the Union-Tribune. The only reason […]

Men hardest hit? Unemployment rate for men at 10 percent.

Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Mary Katherine Ham has done a little Lexis/Nexis research and discovered -- surprise! -- the New York Times has different standards when it comes to expressing skepticism for presidential town halls. When does a "town hall" become a town hall, without need of scare-quote qualification, one might wonder? (When […]

That seems to be what one of the unintended consequences behind last week's cap-and-tax bill would be if it becomes law. According to Robert Zubrin of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the bill will have the effect of increasing organic farming -- because fertilizers and pesticides will be prohibitively expensive. That may be great […]

Ex-president Manuel Zelaya of Honduras appeared at the United Nations and got the approval of that undemocratic cabal to return to power. Getting removed from power has apparently given Zelaya a new respect for the law. Zelaya — whose elected term ends in January 2010 — had defied the Supreme Court and called a referendum […]

I spent quite some time last night reading the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano. [PDF format] As a white male, I'm confident that the decision reached by the court majority is the right one. On a more serious note, after reading the facts of the case as recited in the opinion, it's obvious […]

President Obama again today reiterated his belief that the ouster of Honduran President Zelaya was illegal. Embedded video from CNN Video Following Obama's logic, apparently once you've been elected, there's no possible legal way to be removed from office prior to the end of your term. President Nixon is probably kicking himself as he rolls […]