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Way back when, "politician" wasn't a career choice -- it was something that you did for a short period of time in between real, productive jobs. Of course, for at least the last century, it has become a career for many -- including anyone named "Kennedy." However, there are still a few who hold on […]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally done something right -- he's refused to bow to Hollywood pressure and grant clemency to unrepentant multiple-murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams. The basis of Williams' clemency request is not innocence. Rather, the basis of the request is the "personal redemption Stanley Williams has experienced and the positive impact of the message […]

OK, that would really never happen because Rove is a partisan political animal, right? Well, it happens all the time -- if you're a Democrat. Nope, no media bias here.

Congratulations to fellow Helix High School alum Reggie Bush on winning the Heisman trophy. Bush's win and, should he choose to go pro, his lock on the No. 1 pick in next year's NFL draft will make my alma mater the answer to a few trivia questions. What high school has had both a Heisman […]

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So Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams should be executed next week for the brutal shotgun-slayings of four people. Williams' supporters claim that he has changed and point to a series of childrens' books he has authored as evidence that he can do more good for society alive and behind bars than six feet under. […]

A subscription-only editorial in Friday's Wall Street Journal notes that the International Red Cross has finally relented and offered membership to Israel -- sort of. After almost six decades of rejection, Israel saw the road cleared yesterday for its emergency and disaster relief organization to join the International Red Cross. The price of admission was […]

You know editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant is a liberal -- that's not news. But Oliphant has joined the loony left with his Tuesday cartoon in which doctors give Bush a face transplant. Want to take a wild guess whose face he gets? If you guessed Hitler's, you're right! These Bush=Hitler comparisons that are all the […]

I like to point out that mediocrity seems to rise to the top -- or at least near the top -- in the newspaper business. Today's evidence of that is the editor who assigned/allowed-to-be-published this story. All you need to read is the headline and summary graf. Box hits child as toy store shelf falls […]

From Mark Goldblatt's review of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's latest bile in book form: (Since Dowd's experience figures so prominently throughout her book, allow me a personal aside here: Why are women so often drawn to grand, totalizing theories to make sense of their individual regrets? I'm roughly Dowd's age and have never […]