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12/28/04 - 12/31/04

Los Angeles Dog Trainer 2004 - Part Two
An annual review of the year's not-so-best of the Los Angeles Times...
[Patterico] 12/31/04 | [more] 
Los Angeles Dog Trainer 2004 - Part One
An annual review of the year's not-so-best of the Los Angeles Times...
[Patterico] 12/31/04 | [more] 
A Year of Progress
The Governor's take on '04...
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] 12/30/04 | [more]
Nation Would Raise Local Taxes
Liberals in the Assembly try a new grab…
[Jon Coupal] 12/29/04 | [more]
A Week Under the Dome...
Golden Fleece, Econ 101 and Household Survey Divergence..
[Bill Leonard] 12/28/04 | [more]

12/20/04 - 12/24/04

The Song Remains The Same
From Assemblyman to Senator, but...[John Campbell] 12/24/04 | [more]
Local Taxes?
More tax gambits… [Jon Coupal] 12/23/04 | [more]
More Government Deception
Bureaucracy breeds bureaucracy…
[Ray Haynes] 12/22/04 | [more]
The Whole Title IX Yards
Reform the remedy...
[Xiaochin Yan] 12/21/04 | [more]
Pension Intervention
CalPERS eats the budget...
[Anthony P. Archie] 12/20/04 | [more]

12/13/04 - 12/17/04

Who's After Perata's Job?
FBI interested in Sacramento's Senate leader...
[Patrick Mallon] 12/17/04 | [more]
Cut This: Irresponsibility
If spending were tied to population and inflation California would be in the black...
[John Campbell] 12/16/04 | [more]
County Revenues: The Myth v. the Reality
Counties overspending taxpayers' money...
[Jon Coupal and Steve Frates] 12/15/04 | [more]
The Wisdom of Growth
What Can California Learn from Oregon...
[J. David Breemer] 12/14/04 | [more]
Still Not Safe in California
Protecting the borders?...
[Xiaochin Yan] 12/13/04 | [more]
The “Crimson” Letter
Harvard Law School’s Badge of Shame...
[Carol Platt Liebau] 12/13/04 | [more]

12/6/04 - 12/10/04

Public Fed Up With Government Waste
Enough with the pork...
[Jon Coupal and Tom Schatz] 12/10/04 | [more]
The Trojan Horses of Sacramento
Sacramento Dems and the status quo..
[Patrick Mallon] 12/9/04 [more]
Arnold Rules, California GOP Stalls
Is the state GOP any better off?...
[Doug Gamble] 12/8/04 | [more]
Shakedown Lawsuits Live On
Despite Prop 64…
[K. Lloyd Billingsley] 12/7/04 | [more]
They Are Wrong - Again
Liberal ideology drives the Legislature's analysts…
[Ray Haynes] 12/6/04 | [more]

11/29/04 - 12/3/04

Mexico’s Fox Goes After Cop Killers?
A tragic double standard... [Patrick Mallon] 12/3/04 [more]
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Freeloading's over... [Jon Coupal] 12/2/04[more]
The Heavy Hand of Redevelopment
Blighted?... M. David Stirling] 12/1/04 [more]
A Week Under the Dome...
Economic freedom, CPR, flat tax... [Bill Leonard] 11/30/04 [more]
Hi-Tech Business Leaders' Hypocrisy
Stand on two-thirds tax vote is revealing... [Jon Coupal] 11/29/04 [more]

11/22/04 - 11/26/04

Thanksgiving
The Most American Holiday of All [Carol Platt Liebau] 11/25/04  [more]
Liberating Baghdad-By-The-Bay
The failure of San Francisco's compassionate liberalism... [M.T. Janke] [more]
Thank You, Bill Jones
Exceeding my expectations… [Jubal] 11/24/04 [more]
Taxing and Tracking Us For Nothing?
Like this liberal tax scheme's gonna to work… [Ray Haynes] 11/23/04 [more]
Of Dubious “Values”
A Party that Stands for Anything Stands for Nothing... [Carol Platt Liebau] 11/22/04 [more]
Remember The Budget?
Reality is on its way…[State Senator-Elect John Campbell] 11/22/04 | [more]

11/15/04 - 11/19/04

A Gerrymandered Election
Voters Will Be Stifled ... [Jon Coupal] 11/19/04 | [more]
An Irrelevant Penalty
Scott Peterson needn’t fear the death sentence... [Lance T. Izumi] 11/18/04 | [more]
A Week Under the Dome...
Values, economics, taxes and generosity... [Bill Leonard] 11/17/04 | [more]
Hug A Miner Today
Everyday life under attack from environmentalists… [Ray Haynes] 11/16/04 | [more]
California's Liberal Dictatorship
The demise of Gray Davis... [Patrick Mallon] 11/16/04 | [more]
The More, the Merrier
What Arlen Specter Can Teach the California GOP... [Carol Platt Liebau] 11/15/04 | [more]
Observations on the Election 2
State Senator-elect John Campbell… [John Campbell] 11/15/04 | [more] 
A Week Under the Dome...
Tom Campbell, CPR and Education... [Bill Leonard] 11/15/04 | [more]

11/8/04 - 11/12/04

What Taxpayers Want
Politician promises... [Jon Coupal] 11/12/04 | [more] 
A Statewide Cal-PASS?
Problems and solutions in California's higher education... [Lance T. Izumi] 11/12/04 | [more] 
Not Just Bush Scored A Victory On Nov. 2
Schwarzenegger, businesses and parties walked away winners... [Shawn Steel] 11/11/04 | [more]
The Most Promised Land Of All
After 25 years living in the Golden State, it's obvious there's nowhere better... [Doug Gamble] 11/10/04 | [more]
California - The Backwater State
Government from the '60's… [Ray Haynes] 11/9/04 | [more]
Why the Democrats Lost  
Or, the corrosive power of hate... [Carol Platt Liebau] 11/8/04 | [more]

11/1/04 - 11/5/04

The Center Has Held
Liberal elites don’t understand the real stakes…[Bruce S. Thornton] 11/5/04 | [more]
A Battlefield Hurrah
A solider’s president is reelected…[Gordon Cucullu] 11/5/04 | [more]
The Bush Landside That Wasn't
Culture matters...[Cliff Kincaid] 11/5/04 | [more]
America Spoke—Who Will Listen?
The people choose and the hard work continues...[Michael Nevin Jr.] 10/05/04 | [more]
Who Voted?
Post-election Analysis…[Sharon Hughes] 11/5/04 | [more]
Observations on the Election
Senator-elect John Campbell…[John Campbell] 11/5/04 | [more]
Reagan Is Smiling
Optimism wins...[Laura Ingraham] 11/4/04 | [more] 
First Time Tragedy
Second time farce...[Hugh Hewitt] 11/4/04 | [more]
Against Prop 62
Who gets the credit?..[Shawn Steel] 11/4/04 | [more]
Transition of Power
Democracy is precious...[Gordon Cucullu] 11/3/04 | [more]
Message For Republicans
So, why aren't we winning?...[Tom Adkins] 11/3/04 | [more] 
Living With the Electoral College System
What did the Founders know?...[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/3/04 | [more]
Has America Learned from 9/11?
Will we have what it will take?…[Daniel Pipes] 11/3/04 | [more]
A Spy in the Ointment
Do the Koreans have a 527?...[Gordon Cucullu] 11/2/04 | [more]
Lou Dobbs and His Buddy George Soros
Financing defeat...[Cliff Kincaid] 11/2/04 | [more]
Embryonic Stem Cell Research And Human Dignity
Complex science, simple ethics... [Archibishop Charles J. Chaput] 11/2/04 | [more]
Health Care Prop. Is Bad Medicine
Prop 72... [Adam B. Summers] 11/2/04 | [more]
Centrist Republicans Running In San Francisco
Fight Pelosi and Migden, Elect DePalma and Felder…[Adam Balling] 11/2/04 |[more] 
Follow the Money
Government for the government…[Ray Haynes] 11/2/04 | [more]
Favorite State Crises
Something to look forward to after the election…[John Campbell] 11/2/04 | [more]

10/25/04 - 10/30/04

McClintock on the Propositions
What the Senator thinks...
[Tom McClintock] 10/30//04 |[more]
Vote No on 62
Or the Party's Over...
[Shawn Steel] 10/30/04 | [more]
Wal-Mart and Proposition 72
A Bogus Assault...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/30/04 | [more]
No on Prop. 61
We're already swimming in debt...
[Jon Coupal] 10/30/04 | [more]
The Unholy Trinity of Special Interest Tax Increases
Propositions 63, 67, 72...
[Jon Coupal] 10/30/04 | [more]
Legal Reform Will Benefit Businesses, Consumers and Taxpayers
Yes on Prop 64...
[Jon Coupal] 10/30/04 | [more]
9/10 vs. 9/12 on 11/2
Clear choices…
[Daniel Pipes] 10/29/04 | [more]
Faith and Patriotism
Words are cheap...
[Archibishop Charles J. Chaput] 10/29/04 | [more] 
It’s Still the Economy
Poll the pocketbook...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/29/04 | [more]
The Big Choice
It's education...
[K. Lloyd Billingsley] 10/29/04 | [more]
It’s the Security, Mom (and Dad)
A clear choice...
[Gordon Cucullu] 10/28/04 | [more]
Moment of Decision
The President's pulling away...
[Hugh Hewitt] 10/28/04 | [more]
Defeat Job-Killing Ballot Propositions
No on 63, 67, and 72...
[Lawrence J. McQuillan and Anthony P. Archie] 10/28/04 | [more]
Why This Libertarian Is Voting to Re-elect George W. Bush
Choosing the more libertarian...
[J. Neil Schulman] 10/28/04 | [more]
Judge Judges
Judicial activism and Federalist 78...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/28/04 | [more] 
Party of Arnold
Snuffing out the state’s conservatism...
Save Those Matches
The Democrat draft...
[Gordon Cucullu] 10/27/04 | [more]
Bush Dared To Be Different
The President and the Mideast…
[Daniel Pipes] 10/27/04 | [more]
Party Time for Public Opinion
James Fenimore Cooper on partisanship...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/27/04 |[more]
No Belle Prize, Continued
Politics of the elite...
[Sally C. Pipes] 10/27/04 | [more]
Religious Strife in America
Enraged liberalism...
[Thomas Lifson] 10/26/04 [more]
Their True Colors
John and Teresa at it again...
[Chris Field] 10/26/04 [more]
Liberal IQ vs. Conservative Commonsense
Liberals are smarter than the rest of us…
[Chuck DeVore] 10/26/04 [more]
Kerry's Dishonorable Discharge...
He is still accountable…
[Mark Alexander] 10/26/04 | [more]
Exposing and Opposing George Soros
Hiding behind the media…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/26/04 | [more]
Political Myths
Government by emotion…
[Ray Haynes] 10/26/04 | [more]
Judge ‘Em By the Company They Keep
And Then Vote for Bush...
[Carol Platt Liebau] 10/25/04 [more]
Chilling Effect
Stopping at nothing...
[Thomas Lifson] 10/25/04 [more]
Deconstructing Kerry's Case: Part Two
Do the challenger's charges hold up?…
[Bruce S. Thornton] 10/25/04 [more]
Election Fraud
All too easy...
[John Campbell] 10/25/04 [more]

10/18/04 - 10/22/04

The Stress Test
An imperious first family?...
[Thomas Lifson] 10/22/04 | [more]
Things I Hate About Each Presidential Candidate
Choosing...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/22/04 [more]
Heinz Kerry's "Real Job"
Media provides safe harbor for the would-be First Lady…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/22/04 [more]
The Tax Ratchet Effect
Taxes never seem to go away...
[Jon Coupal] 10/22/04 [more]
Where Have All the Clintons Gone?
Noticeably scarce...
[Gordon Cucullu] 10/21/04 | [more]
Bush is Looking Good!
The President's pulling away...
[Hugh Hewitt] 10/21/04 | [more]
Tear-down Politics
Going negative...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/21/04 [more]
History Is On Our Side
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
[Donald H. Rumsfeld] 10/20/04 | [more]
What's a Voter To Do?
A frankly partisan take on the California propositions...
[John Campbell] 10/20/04 | [more]
Taxes Should Be Fair and Predictable
California's Prop. 70 and tribal gaming...
[Jon Coupal] 10/20/04 | [more]
Seeking Liberty in the Election
Frederic Bastiat on Government...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/20/04 | [more]
The O'Reilly Mess
How will the commentator spin himself out?…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/19/04 | [more]
Iwo, CNN-style
The bloody battle for Iwo Jima, if covered by media today...
[Zell Miller] 10/19/04 | [more]
The 2004 Nosey Awards
Government running our lives…
[Ray Haynes] 10/19/04 | [more]
Where Have You Gone, Mrs. Miniver?
When Puppets Must Explain the War On Terror...
[Carol Platt Liebau] 10/18/04 | [more]
Eloquence, Debates, and the Election
The contest is not for president of the debate club...
[Thomas Lifson] 10/18/04 | [more]
Fair Game?
Do the Democrats really play want to play by the same rules?...
[Chris Field] 10/18/04 | [more]
Some Other Consequences of the Iranian Bomb
More reasons the world should be worried...
[Roger Howard] 10/18/04 | [more]

10/11/04 - 10/15/04

Deconstructing Kerry's Case: Part One
Do the challenger's charges hold up?…
[Bruce S. Thornton] 10/15/04 | [more]
The Liberal Censors
Wanting to hide the candidate's past…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/15/04 | [more]
The Truth About Tomorrow
Everything is different...
[Charles Kopp] 10/15/04 | [more]
Newsom “K”-Os Governor’s Plan
Governance by proposition..
[Anthony P. Archie] 10/15/04 | [more]
Who Speaks for the Dead?
Hatred for the brave...
[Gordon Cucullu] 10/14/04 |[more]
The 'Sands of Iwo Jima'
Does Kerry understand war?...
[Hugh Hewitt] 10/14/04 | [more]
Gray Davis & John Kerry
Empty at the core...
[John Campbell] 10/14/04 | [more]
What? Conservative Movies?
A cottage industry is gaining momentum...
[Doug Gamble] 10/13/04 | [more]
Sinclair vs. Sundance
The media take sides…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/13/04 | [more]
Hating America's Success
Resenting our accomplishments…
[Daniel Pipes] 10/13/04 | [more]
More "aid and comfort"...
Kerry will continue to undermine our security…
[Mark Alexander] 10/12/04 | [more]
Attack Of The Propositions!!!
More and more initiatives…
[Ray Haynes] 10/12/04 | [more]
An Assault on Freedom
Anti Wal-Martism continues..
[Paul J. Beard II] 10/12/04 | [more]
What the Franchise is Worth
It’s Time to Start Protecting the Integrity of the Vote...
[Carol Platt Liebau] 10/11/04 | [more]
The Odd Couple
Mr. & Mrs. Kerry...
[Thomas Lifson] 10/11/04 | [more]
The Secretary of State
California's ...
[John Campbell] 10/11/04 | [more]

10/4/04 - 10/8/04

Miracle In The Mountains
Elections Come to Afghanistan [Ralph Peters] 10/8/04 | [more]
Brainwashed.
Brainwashed. How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth by Ben Shapiro [Bruce S. Thornton] 10/8/04 | [more]
Getting Out the Vote
Do the uninformed really need to go to the polls?... [J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/8/04 | [more]
Cheney Creamed Edwards
The pretender gets slapped down...[Hugh Hewitt] 10/7/04 |[more]
We Will Not Waver...
Consistency is a measure…[Mark Alexander] 10/7/04 | [more]
Savoring the Joys of Political Handouts
Neo-Luddites try hard to smash modern machinery of progress... [Jon Coupal] 10/7/04 | [more]
Where This Angell Should Have Feared to Tread
Drug reimportation is a bad idea... [Sally C. Pipes and Benjamin Zycher] 10/7/04 | [more]
Promises, Promises
...but will Kerry be able to make a decision... [Gordon Cucullu] 10/6/04 | [more]
Missing in Action: A Female Candidate
A PC world onto itself... [Sally C. Pipes] 10/6/04 | [more]
What Kind of Airport Profiling?
How to identify beliefs… [Daniel Pipes] 10/6/04 | [more]
The Media, George Soros and Needle Park
Why does Big Media abet the international man of mystery?…[Cliff Kincaid] 10/5/04 | [more]
Clone and Kill
Good government is less government... [Ray Haynes] 10/5/04 | [more]
Outsourcing is Good for America
Protectionism stifles economic growth...[Sonia Arrison] 10/05/04 | [more]
My Bills
Life in Sacramento's minority party...[John Campbell] 10/5/04 | [more]
Finger on the Keyboard, Toe in the Water
Stepping Into a Brave New Medium...[Carol Platt Liebau] 10/4/04 |[more]
Obligatory Debate Notes
Annoyed early...[Chris Field] 10/4/04 | [more]
Clinton’s Legacy of Multilingualism
Accomodating immigrants over reason....[M. David Stirling] 10/4/04 | [more]

9/27/04 - 10/1/04

Troop Redeployment – The China Connection
Beyond the dire predictions...
[Gordon Cucullu] 10/1/04 [more]
Tax Dollars Used Against Taxpayers
Paying to be punished...
[Jon Coupal] 10/1/04 | [more]
Inequality: Less Than Meets The Eye
Counting unreality...
[Gary M. Galles] 10/1/04 | [more]
Why W?
George W. Bush—A Leader for Our Times...
[Michael Nevin Jr.] 9/30/04 |[more]
End Game
A tight race all around...
[Hugh Hewitt] 9/30/04 | [more]
Nets v. Bush
Don’t Believe Everything You See on TV...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/30/04 | [more]
The Debates: Kerry Will Go Down
Unlikeable and inauthentic, the senator will blow the debates...
[Doug Gamble] 9/29/04 | [more]
Flip-Flopper Bill O’Reilly
What’s happened?…
[Cliff Kincaid] 9/29/04 | [more]
Islam is What Its Followers Make of It
Tolerance?…
[Daniel Pipes] 9/29/04 | [more]
The War, Mr. Kerry, and the UN
The candidate has a magic formula for rallying allies…
[Chuck DeVore] 9/27/04 | [more]
Liberty Is The Issue
Good government is less government...
[Ray Haynes] 9/28/04 |[more]
John Kerry, Useful Idiot...
An election with the Constitution at stake?…
[Mark Alexander] 9/28/04 | [more]
Federalist 17 Under Fire
Mr. Kerry wants more government... the Founders wanted less...
[Gary M. Galles] 9/28/04 | [more]
The Wolf Trap
Female Support for “W” Isn’t a “Trick”...
[Carol Platt Liebau] 9/27/04 | [more]
Excuse Me, Mr. Kerry?
I have a few questions...
[Chris Field] 9/27/04 | [more]
CBS News & Dan Rather
The government is in our lives..
[John Campbell] 9/27/04 | [more]
CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit
Oops… bias showing…

9/20/04-9/24/04

CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit
Oops… bias showing…
[Cliff Kincaid] 9/24/04 [more]
I Backed Clinton But Today I Stand With Bush
Democrat leaders have taken the party in the wrong, very wrong direcction...
[Zell Miller] 9/24/04 [more]
The Islamic States of America?
Erosion from within…
[Daniel Pipes] 9/24/04 [more]
Celebrating the Bill of Rights
Limiting government…
[Gary M. Galles] 9/24/04 [more]
Meta-meme: The forgery is John Kerry
John Kerry is the forgery...
[Hugh Hewitt] 9/23/04 [more]
Heads Should Roll At USA Today
CBS isn't by itself in agenda journalism...
[Cliff Kincaid] 9/23/04 [more]
Has the UN Outlived its Usefulness?
Rampant incompetence and deep set corruption...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/23/04 [more]
Abandoned
Democrats turn backs on South...
[Zell Miller] 9/23/04 [more]
Ethics and Spending Public Money
Abusing the system...
[Jon Coupal] 9/23/04 [more]
A Hole-in-One for Anti-Americanism
It's chic for the international elites to hate us...
[Laura Ingraham] 9/22/04 [more]
Mushroom Clouds on the Horizon
North Korea hopes for a Kerry victory...
[Gordon Cucullu] 9/22/04 [more]
CBS The Corrupt Broadcasting System
More than merely inept reporting...
[Cliff Kincaid] 9/22/04 [more]
Out of the Mainstream
The pretense of political extremism…
[Gary M. Galles] 9/22/04 [more]
Kerry: A War and Antiwar Primer
Questionable war record & questionable antiwar misrepresentations
[John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson & Edward Morrissey] 9/21/04 [more]
Oops, Government Does It Again
Guess one big reason health insurance costs so much...
[Ray Haynes] 9/21/04 [more]
Uncharted Desert Islands
The government is in our lives..
[John Campbell] 9/21/04 | [more]
The Story Behind the Story
A Word of Appreciation For Legislative Nonvoters
[Carol Platt Liebau] 9/20/04 [more]
A Tale of Two Coverages
Of course there's no liberal media bias...
[Chris Field] 9/20/04 [more]
Pete Coors Talks Sense On Guns
The candidate meets the press...
[Ari Armstrong] 9/20/04 [more]

9/13/04-9/17/04

Bloody Baghdad
The desperation of the Sunnis...
[Morgan Norval] 9/17/04[more]
Dan Rather's Last Stand
Stonewalling reality...
[Cliff Kincaid] 9/17/04[more]