The timing of the report could not have been better this year. Congress had returned from vacation and began the debate on Obamacare just as the report appeared on September 10th. In the next to the last paragraph of the four page Census ...
Two years ago in June, my husband and I took a train journey around China. We visited both Tibet and Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. As Californians, we instantly recognized that the unrest and violence in both have lessons for Americans. The story ...
California finally has a budget deal, through accounting maneuvers and budget cuts (including the release of convicted felons). But Californias budget is toastwhether or not the economy turns around. Overall, in twenty years, the increase in ...
Today, California farm laborers come mostly from Mexico. They toil in many of the same California fields as did the fictional Joads. But the primary crop in Monterey County, the home of John Steinbeck, is no longer head lettuce, but strawberries. ...
Sadly, Sarah Palins daughter, Bristol, and her boyfriend (emphasis on boy), Levi Johnston, have broken up. According to AP Wire service, Bristol Palin says that she is devastated. One can assume, therefore, that it was his idea. Neither the press ...
In 2005, 49% of fetal deaths were to unmarried women, as compared with 37% of live births. . . .Marital status may be a marker for the presence or absence of social, emotional, and financial resources. In January, lost amidst all the news about the ...
Just what is genocide? One dictionary states, in part, that genocide is "the use of deliberate systematic measures . . .calculated to bring about the extermination of a racial, political or cultural group or to destroy the ...
Or perhaps the U.S. wanted to ensure that the high-technology equipment aboard the satellite would not fall into the hands of others. No matter the reason, one cannot help but be mighty impressed by the technology—an infrared-detector-guided missile ...
[Peter Brimelow writes: I first met Linda Thom in 1996 at a meeting organized after the publication of Alien Nation by immigration reform patriots in Santa Barbara. Recently, Lydia and I had dinner there with Diana Hull of ...
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