by altha-admin | Sep 10, 2011 | Articles
[From USA Today "Pledges can be taxing for GOP" 9/8/2011]Former US Senator Alan Simpson never signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. He had no interest in hamstringing his ability to trade for votes and make decisions for the best interests of his state and...
by altha-admin | Sep 10, 2011 | Articles
[From USA Today "Charges lessened in fake-address case"Governor John Kasich, a resurgent conservative in a state turning Red in reaction to the elitist, statist policies of the Obama Administration, has commuted the sentence of Kelley Williams-Bolar, a...
by altha-admin | Sep 9, 2011 | Articles
The Lawndale-Hawthorne community is up in arms about a bunch of old buildings being knocked down in a local high school. The debate on this issue is both demeaning and revealing: The historical society who launched the lawsuit contends that the district failed to file...
by altha-admin | Sep 9, 2011 | Articles
On September 11, 2001, I was a third-year student at UC Irvine.As a recently hired staff member, I had moved into the Middle Earth Housing a week early to prepare the campus for the incoming freshmen moving in that year.That Tuesday morning, I was eating breakfast in...
by altha-admin | Sep 9, 2011 | Articles
What have we learned about ourselves and our country in the last past ten years?We are not invulnerable, yet we are not victims.We are not perfect, yet we seek better for ourselves than before.We desire protection, yet now we need protection from the State, which in...
by altha-admin | Sep 9, 2011 | Articles
If people won't listen to you, do not listen to them.Henry David Thoreau opposed the Mexican-American war. He refused to pay his taxes.Slaves resisted their unjust masters by failing to put away the tools forced upon them as the tilled the land which was not...