Editorials
- Our View: 'Bullet train becoming ‘Moonbeam Express’
- Gov. Jerry Brown wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to fund California's much-maligned high-speed rail project.
In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much ... Full story
- Our View: Republicans undermine chances for change
- Miitt Romney clearly prevailed in his costly and bitter Republican presidential primary fight in Florida against Newt Gingrich, collecting the Sunshine State's full complement of 50 convention delegates.
Despite Romney's sizable margin of victory th... Full story
- Our View: A blueprint for future shortages
- Those who cannot remember the 1970s are condemned to repeat them. Even if you're too young to remember the Disco Decade, you've doubtless seen pictures of cars lined up waiting to pump scarce gas at filling stations.
We'll suffer that again if Rep. ... Full story
- Our View: '‘Medicare for all' fails again
- Californians dodged the bullet on universal health care insurance once again when Senate Bill 810 was narrowly defeated last week, falling only two votes short of passage in the state Senate. After the vote, Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Darrel... Full story
- Our View: President appears less green
- When President Barack Obama promised last week to open 75 percent of potential offshore gas and oil resources to drilling and praised the controversial fracking method for extracting untapped oil reserves on land, a collective shudder went through hi... Full story
- Our View: 'Narrow' win for limits on police searches
- The Fourth Amendment right to protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" has won an important battle. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that police cannot attach a GPS tracking system to a vehicle without first getting a w... Full story
- Our View: Bureaucrats eyeing your device chargers
- It's enough to make the Energizer Bunny pound his drum in protest. This month the California Energy Commission imposed new regulations — the Appliance Efficiency Standards for Battery Chargers. According to the CEC's website, "The purpose ... Full story
