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Bullet train becoming ‘Moonbeam Express'

In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much less than its own business plan stipulates, and wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to underwrite the proposal, wh... Full story

Good night for Romney, Obama

Mitt Romney has 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 Mr. Romney's sizable margin of vic... Full story

Ready for ‘Reasonable Profits Board'?

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'd suffer that again if Rep. D... Full story

Obama has greens squirming a bit

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

‘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 warrant fro... Full story

With SOPA gone, Internet fight goes on

"When I feel the heat, I see the light," the late Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois famously said. He died in 1969, just weeks before the first data packets were sent on ARPANET, the Pentagon-funded academic and research digital network that was the f... Full story

Focus on fairness, not a foul record

President Barack Obama's State of the Union message Tuesday predictably sounded like a campaign kickoff. In this election year he used the bully pulpit to advance political strategy, rather than give an even-handed accounting of where he has brought ... Full story

A flight from Romney, not to Gingrich

Mitt Romney's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination suffered its first real setback, a resounding loss to Newt Gingrich in Saturday's South Carolina primary. The former House speaker's first victory is the latest manifestation of the t... Full story

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 of th... Full story

Seeking freedom to choose a school

National School Choice Weekis this week, focusing attention on efforts of parents, activists, legislators, students and grass-roots networks to promote school choice programs throughout the United States. Legislators should take heed and this year ex... Full story

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