May 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few thing...
Steven GreenhutObama scandals reveal true govt.Monday, May 20th, 2013Freedom safer than regulationsMonday, May 13th, 2013May 13, 103 By Steven Greenhut California and Texas officials have been having an ongoing tit-for-tat over which of the nation’s two mega-states is the better place to live and do business -- something that has become a proxy issue for the broader philosophical debate over the proper size an... Homeless bill hurts more than helpsMonday, May 6th, 2013May 6, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The Homeless Bill of Rights, the name applied to a bill that recently soared through the California Assembly's Judiciary Committee on a 7-2 vote, is the latest in a long line of legislation that has grabbed national attention for its sheer outlandis... Perks pose risk to all of usMonday, April 22nd, 2013April 22, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The horrific Boston bombings have led to irrational calls for more security cameras and more police officers, with some Democrats absurdly using this tragedy to argue for halting the slight sequester-mandated cuts in federal spending growth. N... Water plan threatens taxpayers, environmentSunday, April 14th, 2013 April 14, 2013 By Steven Greenhut In Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed: “The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular.” We can all think of people like that --- folks of varied political persuasions wh... Has California been saved?Monday, April 8th, 2013April 8, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Ever since California’s voters approved the Prop. 30 sales- and income-tax increase on the November ballot, liberal commentators have been gloating about the resurgence of the Golden State after many years of predicted doom and gloom. Their evid... Pensions at heart of bankruptcyMonday, April 1st, 2013April 1, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Few nonlocal people typically pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold Rush-era industrial city of about 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley, at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But ... CA GOP needs ideas, not just moneyMonday, March 11th, 2013March 11, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- Most of the activists, insiders and lobbyists I talked to during this month's California Republican Party convention in Sacramento expressed optimism about their party despite blistering election losses and persistently falling voter registration... Immigration debate over in CASunday, March 3rd, 2013March 4, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- As the cliché goes, elections have consequences. And the Nov. 6 election results have had dramatic consequences in California. The debate over immigration -- legal and otherwise, but, especially, otherwise -- is over. Even some Republicans are... S. Court splits on defending civil libertiesSunday, February 24th, 2013Feb. 24, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions regarding police powers were mixed, thus offering a reminder to civil libertarians that they cannot depend upon the high court to protect the public from unwarranted government intrusions. "The U.S. Sup... |