The State of the Union

The modern-dayTEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movementfollowed from the original 1773 “Tea Party”, which shocked colonists and royalists withfull-on resistance to the tyranny of taxation, spending, and regulation. A bandof Boston Rebels, they dressed…

Mike Castle deserved, no deserves, to be Delaware’s Senator. He is competent, consistent,and connected. Tea Party Republicans have been lacking the connected part forthe past two cycles. It’s not enough to be fired up, but other people have tobe fired up…

ease away from his pledge not to raise taxes. I have also supported his strong stance against nominees for Secretary of Defense candidate Chuck Hagel and CIA Directornominee John Brennan. US Senator Lindsey GrahamSadly, Graham is crumbling, betraying his own…

— Petr Petrovich (GoLocalProv. com) Let’stalk about “losers”. Here’sone. This guy lost his mother at young age. Suffered with low-grade depression,according to some, and he had little education, according to most. He tried torun a small…

Publisher James Preston Allen reported on Washington D. C.’s “embargoed”commemorative statue of Rosa Parks, the civil rights leader who refused to give up her front seat on the bus. “She was tired”, as old Eddie shared in the movie…

“I Should KeepMy Mouth Shut”New Jersey’s “Senior senator”, Robert Menendez, has admitted some “senior moments” over the past few months. Apparently, he forgot to pay for two plane trips offered by a private backer, a Florida…

is biological, but not genetic. Point of fact, heart attacks are biological, too, as are cancer, stomach pains, and many other diseases. Stress and unbelief and even the suppression of the truth in unrighteousness gives forth damaging elements in a person’s…

Half of Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District students are not “college ready,” according to Ashley Archibald. The Prop 30 taxpayer dollars apparently have not brought down class sizes, brought back more teachers, or even brought up our sagging…

Grace and Truth Work Together:It’s OK to Go on OffenseMany are incorrectly convinced that Congressman Todd Akin is some kind of right-wing religious fanatic who hates women and has at best a three-year old’s understanding of the female anatomy.Granted, he…

The Case for Democracy, Sharansky made his pitch for free societies based on the free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religions. These values must be firmly in place before governments open up elections. Without proper respect for all citizens in the…

Carry the Plastic BagMy name is Carry, and I am a plastic bag. Today, I am all wrinkled up about the trends taking over the Santa Monica Bay. Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and Malibu have all banned me and my plastic peers from their cities. Los Angeles also…

theychose liberation. For the record, “progressive” President Abraham Lincoln was aRepublican. So was Frederick Douglass, and the first popularly electedAfrican-American US Senator, Edward Brooke. “Progressive trends” did not “giveequal…

Strom Thurmond. The centenarian should never have stayed inoffice as long as he did. One good thing that Senator Graham did for us. His record inWashington, however, started to worry some conservatives, and certainly agrowing constituency of South Carolinians who…

He is openly gay. Unlike Seinfeld and friends, I believe that there is “something wrong withthat”. The controversy surrounding James sexuality has deep implications forthe Republican Party, the state, and the country, too. His campaign for LAMayor is being…

National Geographic. Supposedly, archaeologists and Coptic theologians had found a fragment of a “lost gospel” which described Jesus as a married man, and other unseemly ideas which do not run current with the Word of God.I disputed these empty ideas right…

The LA Times described an unexpected contraction of the United States economy as “shrinkage”. I immediately thought of the popular sitcom Seinfeld. Has Elaine Benes or George Costanza­­ joined the newspapers reporting staff, or what? Perhaps they should…

Time Magazine, the last comment from the columnist alleged:“Brown or Whitman — they’re both Arnold’s third term.” Jerry Brown is in Arnold’s third term, then.People still liked Arnold, even though he did very little to fix the partisan…

Paul White was a nationally recognized teacher who had taken charge at West Valley Leadership Academy, where 80 percent of students graduated, a third higher than the average for the Los Angeles area. His credentials impressed Redondo Beach district leadership enough…

italics Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.;s “I have a dream” speech. As a Reverend, it appears all too often that he has neglected, or never even knew about, the New Covenant of grace, in which God promises to be a god to every one of us because in Christ all our…

Congressman Henry Waxman is opening a South Bay office on Rosecrans Ave., between the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach. Will he serve district constituents or himself? Easy Reader News reported that Hermosa Beach veteran Larry Delassus died trying to save…

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has…

“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory: why yet am I judged asa sinner? “And not rather (aswe be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) let us do evil,that good may come? Whose damnation is just.”…

Romney’s melancholy but useful role has been to refute those determinists who insist that economic conditions are almost always decisive. Americans are earning less and worth less than they were four years ago; average household income is down $3,800; under the…

To the voters of the Commonwealth of Virginia: As a resident of the Sunny Golden State California, I envyyour swing-state status. Presidential contenders are crisscrossing your statetrying to get your vote. You also have a contentious senate race, one whichpits two…

“We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery.” – Ann CoulterAnn Coulter cultivates controversy as a rule. That’s all well and good.Most people engage in name-calling and femme-baiting only because she is outspoken without being…