Editorial

Speeding-camera bill appears dead

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Bipartisan opposition in a state Senate committee last week appeared to put the brakes on a proposal to mount cameras on city streets to catch — and fine — speeding motorists. We applaud legislators’ uncommon good sense in opposing... Full story

Time to revisit ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

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It will be argued — it has been argued — that allowing homosexual people to serve openly in the military would inevitably undermine morale and unit cohesion. The essence of the argument, as expressed recently by military historian and... Full story

Military spending worthy of Soviets

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One thing you can say about the defense budget presented as part of President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion federal budget is that it is marginally more honest than some previous budgets. In years past Defense secretaries have pretended that the... Full story

State rail project going nowhere fast

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California's implausible, unneeded and increasingly costly high-speed rail project will be injected with $2.25 billion of taxpayer money by the Obama administration. This money is as likely to be squandered as the $9 billion in bonds voters... Full story

Obama's budget not fiscally smart

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President Barack Obama's budget proposal, including the much-touted so-called freeze on nondefense domestic discretionary spending — to begin next year, brings to mind one of the confessions St. Augustine made in his landmark book of... Full story

Another formula will not fix budget

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For a government already spending itself disastrously close to collapse, writing in stone strict budget formulas that almost certainly would insure even higher spending, while restricting lawmakers' discretion, would be a terrible thing to do with... Full story

Obama tries to prop up failing policies

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President Obama’s first State of the Union address answered the big question pundits were asking resoundingly. In the face of setbacks and growing opposition, would he modulate his agenda to take account of a political climate that has changed... Full story

Forget the center; focus on roads

By SCOTT SHACKFORD, editor

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“Roads!” Barstow citizens complained. “We need our roads paved!” The City of Barstow has responded — by paying an architect $50,000 to put together a renovation plan for the mostly abandoned (and completely unneeded)... Full story

Voters may get chance to limit taxes

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California taxpayers will have an opportunity to come to their own rescue by supporting one or more of three new proposed ballot initiatives approved this week to begin gathering signatures. Each proposal requires 694,354 valid signatures in order... Full story

Vindication for the First Amendment

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In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, commonly known as the “Hillary movie” case, the U.S. Supreme Court finally vindicated a proper understanding of the First Amendment, which provides that “Congress shall make no... Full story

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