Take on Pensions — Now

There will never be a "right time" to deal with pension liabilities properly. Unless California employees want to suffer the same fate as Rhode Island, where current pension recipients witnessed their benefits suddenly sliced in half, or worse yet not...

Save the State Parks with Private Investment

The state of California has 278 state parks, all of which add grandeur and grace to a state which is rapidly losing both politically and economically. The Democratic legislators seeking to keep public parks open, Joe Simitian of Palo Alto and Noreen Evans of Santa...

Wal-Mart is Not Bad for the Neighborhood at All

The City of Torrance has nothing to fear from the expansion of Wal-Mart into the abandoned department stores at the corner of Hawthorne and Sepulveda Blvd. The demonization against Wal-Mart has no basis in reality, but merely threatens the declining hegemony of...

Barbara Boxer Pressures on Nuclear Power

The disgraceful chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer of California, is pressing for more information on the stability of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plants in Southern California. She ought to be questionin the stability of our...

Chase Chasing the Pattern of MF Global

Once again, a major financial firm took a bad bet on debt and derivatives. JPMorgan Chase took over for Washington Mutual nearly four years ago, yet the fiscal mismanagement which pushed one of the largest restructurings in United States History is still pushing out...

David Brooks' Unstylish Send Up of Obama's Style

David Brooks has confused the sign for the wonder, in the same manner that certain Christian sects have confused water Baptism for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The New York Times Columnist and sometime conservative commentator felt pressed to explain why...