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Lauren Caitlin Upton, third runner-up in the Miss Teen USA contest, has a bright future. Well, there's a reason they call it a beauty pageant and not a quiz bowl.

Bill Moyers, who has spread his left-wing ideology for decades courtesy of your contributions to the Public Broadcasting System, is a hateful, despicable little man. And I may be putting it much too nicely. A little over a week ago, in the wake of the announcement of the resignation of presidential adviser Karl Rove, Moyers […]

There's bad news for fans of Michael Moore's "Sicko" and the single-payer/socialized medicine solution he advocates. Cancer survival rates in Britain are among the lowest in Europe, according to the most comprehensive analysis of the issue yet produced. England is on a par with Poland despite the NHS spending three times more on health care. […]

I was awakened at about 6:30 a.m. this morning by thunder, lightning and car alarms going off as the remnants of Hurricane Dean moved into the Northern San Diego County. It rained pretty good too. This concludes your annual "weather" report for San Diego County.

Last month I noted that President George W. Bush was able to travel back in time to and set policies on dealing with terrorists during the Clinton administration. Well, he's done it again. From a New York Times editorial: When George W. Bush won the White House, Mr. Tenet seems to have shifted his priorities. […]

When I saw this report, the first thought was: "DeGaulle of that woman!" Elvira Arellano was kicked out of the United States last week after she entered the country illegally -- twice -- and defied a deportation order for years. The United States is the one who broke the law first. By letting people cross […]

If you haven't had a chance to read it, head over to National Review Online and check out this article by former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy on The New York Times false reporting on the recent FISA fix. So, have you heard the latest? Your business records can now be taken away by Big Brother […]

A couple of years back, San Diego Police released the mug shot and name of a 17-year-old murder suspect to the local media. The kid was on the loose and, in the standard law-enforcement wording, "armed and dangerous." A journalistic judgement had to to be made. Does the newspaper run the mug shot? The initial […]

There are certain statements that usually get you fired. I knew a guy who got fired for telling his boss the infamous "Dick Cheney" line. Voters should fire Rep. Bob Filner for this line: “I am a congressman and can do whatever I want,” [immigration supervisor Juan J.] Ramirez quoted Filner as saying. That's it. […]

Monday morning the remaining charges were dropped against the two 13-year-old boys who were arrested and charged with crimes that would require them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives for (stupidly) slapping girls on their butts. "I believe these youths have now moved from a model of bad behavior in […]