John Seiler: Incredible. A Kern County sheriff ran down a couple in Oildale, then cops swarmed the scene and arrested the grieving friends and relatives. This is what happens when the law-enforcement unions have become so powerful that they get their bought-and-paid-for legislators to pass laws ...

John Seiler: The proof keeps coming in that California rapidly is descending into Third World Status. At yesterday's NFL football game in San Francisco between the 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, the lights in the stadium went out -- twice. How embarrassing. “Just wondering how this ha...

John Seiler: Columnist and Vietnam combat vet Fred Reed moved to Mexico 10 years ago. He reports on the changes there. It used to be moderately prosperous and pleasant. Now, thanks to the the U.S. drug war pushed on them by the U.S. government, it's become a dangerous place. The gringos are le...

John Seiler: It must be the season. I'm in a festive mood. I want to put as many tax increases as possible before voters next November. Tax the rich, tax the middle class, tax the poor, tax smokers, tax drinkers, tax eaters, tax lovers -- tax everybody. That way, as Dan Walters predicted, t...

John Seiler: Despite its excesses, the Occupy movement is an understandable response to the "Economic Cooling" since the Great Recession struck now more than four years ago. (As is the Tea Party.) I have friends still living in their car. Here's what the Occupiers basically believe: No. 1. Ri...

John Seiler: Gov. Jerry Brown sometimes can be difficult to understand. Plumping for his tax increase, he recently wrote, "An Open Letter to the People of California." It makes more sense when translated, using the Dialectizer, into the lingo of Elmer Fudd, whom the governor actually resembles...