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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
The misanthropy of 'Avatar' and Sandel
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Perhaps it isn't all people but only Americans that “Avatar” presents in an unfavorable light, but the movie clearly suggests that human beings are largely no good, except for just a few of them and they only barely. In contrast,... 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
Letters to the editor, Feb. 8, 2010
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U.S. runs on corporations, unions In response to “Corporations are not people, too”: When is Ms. Jensen going to realize that without unions and corporations we would have no economy? Nada, zero. Jobs would not exist at all. Without... Full story
Black History Month is still important
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February marks the celebration in this country of Black History Month, which was established in 1926 by African-American historian, scholar, and educator Carter G. Woodson in honor of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Since 1976 the celebration... Full story
Letters to the editor, Feb. 5, 2010
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State wants to take over your health care The California Senate has passed SB 810. This is called the Universal Health Care Act. It creates a whole new government agency, (a great big health care agency) under a health care commissioner. It will be... 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
Big government's industrial cronies
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Many window-making companies struggle because of the recession's effect on home building. But one little window company, Serious Materials, is “booming,” says Fortune. “On a roll,” according to Inc. magazine, which put... 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
Fiscal and social conservatism: related or not?
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Recent polling data reveal that twice as many Americans describe themselves as conservative (40 percent) as liberal (20 percent), with most of the remainder falling into the independent category. One explanation is that some independents who see... Full story
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