DC Republicans are Toughening Up

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have every right to toughen their stance. I am not surprised that moderate Republicans lost their seats. The fate of the Democratic Party remains undisclosed however, and that's a real problem, too. The ...

Fewer Postmen, Late Mailing

Unlike in Santa Monica and Venice, where the New Deal era Post Offices have closed down and face either demolition or dilapidation, the Redondo Beach Post Office workers and mail routes are suffering a different problem: too much mail and not enough...

Jeff Jacoby — "Grass Roots"

Jeff Jacoby's article on the deepening life-support status of the Massachusetts GOP resonated with me, a conservative in California who has just witnessed the rise of a Democratic tax-and-spend supermajority in my statehouse. Moreover, a lukewarm, flip-flop...

Ted Cruz, Hispanics, and the GOP

Ted Cruz Ted Cruz, US Senator-elect for Texas, has already begun deflating the hollow arguments from liberals and the Democratic Party that the GOP is a failed brand for minority voters, including the thriving Hispanic community. FOX News Commentator Chris Wallace...

9-11: The Source of the Crisis

November 6th, I was at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel on Rosecrans Blvd. I wanted to get the election results as soon as I could, for the national as well as the local race, including the contest for the 33rd Congressional District. Bloomfield arrived about half...