April 7, 2013 By Chris Reed The instant national chortling Thursday over the fact that President Obama had called California's Kamala Harris the "best-looking" state attorney general ended up being more about seeing the usual slippery standards on political correctness. Democrats can often get...

April 6, 2013 By Chris Reed The Sacramento Bee's editorial Friday lambasting House Republicans for opposing using borrowed federal money to build California's bullet train was noteworthy for its tone. The Bee editorial board seems to be under the deluded impression that project advocates have ...

April 5, 2013 By John Seiler AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, was supposed to inspire other countries to follow the state in mandating the reduction of greenhouse gases, in particular by switching from such "dirty" energy as coal to such "green" energy as solar and wind power. ...

April 5, 2013 By Chris Reed The longer I've lived in California, the more governance here seems to resemble organized looting of taxpayers. It's not just the showy and ridiculous things, like the longtime president of the CalPERS governing board being a top official in the California Federatio...

April 5, 2013 By John Seiler Unlike most East Coast commentators, Rush Limbaugh knows something about California. Sacramento, where he launched his radio show in the 1980s, is his adopted home town. What he said on his show about the Stockton bankruptcy is interesting: "But we're not in a dep...

April 4, 2013 By John Hrabe I used to think that I was the world’s most well-traveled Californian. In the past eighteen months, I’ve traveled to more than 70 cities in two dozen countries on four continents. I spent two months traveling overland from Cape Town to Nairobi, two weeks on a...