Sacramento Starts — Prop 32 Will Finish

The California state legislature has initiated pension reform. Like Governor Brown, I am displeased that the legislature failed to pass budget reform to curtail health care costs. Still the public sector unions do not negotiate with the taxpayers for pay raises. They...

Sacramento Steps Up on Pension Reform

http://news.yahoo.com/calif-legislature-oks-pension-changes-232256366–finance.html The California state legislature has taken some much needed steps to reform pension abuse. Among the reforms passed by the Senate and the Assembly: 1. Increase the retirement age...

Buchanan's Pessimism

Columnist Pat Buchanan is at it again with his culture-war pessimism, this time hitting on the unlikely success of an economic resurgence from the Romney-Ryan ticket. In his latest piece, "The 'Larger Purpose' of the Romney-Ryan ticket, the national...

Richard Simmons, Weight Loss, and the Gospel

Richard Simmons I was surprised when I heard Richard Simmons talk about the most important thing that people have to do before they lose weight: "You have to love yourself. You have to be OK with yourself before you start losing weight." In other words:...

What Really Killed the King

I believe that Elvis Presley was blessed with the gifts of God. "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1 John 2: 20) He had Holy Spirit charisma pouring all over him, enough that the President of the United States was willing to...

"Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?  ...