Editorials

Our View: Rolling along, nowhere fast

California's implausible, unneeded and increasingly costly high-speed rail project will be injected with $2.25 billion of taxpayer money by the Obama administration. This money is as likely to be squandered as the $9 billion in bonds voters... Full story

Ron Hart: Pontificator in chief strikes again

President Obama opened his State of the Union speech/lecture with the obligatory, "I am happy to report that the state of our Union is strong." As any entertainer will tell you, it is smart to start with a good joke. A friend told me that Obama... Full story

John Stossel: Big government's cronies win again

Many window-making companies struggle because of the recession's effect on home building. But one little window company, Serious Materials, is "booming," says Fortune. "On a roll," according to Inc. magazine, which put Serious' CEO on its cover,... Full story

Our view: 3 ways to avoid tax hikes

Proposed initiatives seek taxpayers' signatures California taxpayers will have an opportunity to come to their own rescue by supporting one or more of three new proposed ballot initiatives approved this week to begin gathering signatures. Each... Full story

Ron Hart: Calling the shots from a cave

Osama bin Laden, who makes more disturbing tapes than Paris Hilton and is similarly fighting to remain relevant, reappeared recently to take credit for the Nigerian crotch bomber's failed mission to Detroit. I predict that in his next missive, Osama... Full story

Our view: Governor sometimes gets it partly right

We're often critical of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's predictably disappointed nearly everyone. That's to be expected for a crowd-pleasing actor stepping onto the political stage. Nevertheless, occasionally he gets it right, as least partly... Full story

Ron Hart: Face it: Nobody owes you anything

Home run record holder Mark McGwire finally came clean on his steroid use in 1998, the year he broke the record. People were shocked; Sammy Sosa's face turned white as a sheet when he heard. So, let's sum up the past decade: We have had three... Full story

John Stossel: Who needs energy independence?

When you gas up your car, do you think that you're doing something evil? After all, I'm told that burning gasoline helps "murder the Earth," not to mention fills the coffers of terrorists and despots. So we must move away from oil. Al Gore says,... Full story

Our view: Trifecta of trouble from the Legislature

It's shaping up as a bad season in Sacramento. A legislative committee this week killed a badly needed bill to overturn the Draconian AB32 — the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act — with its onerous costs and regulations that will punish... Full story

John Stossel: Crony capitalism dominates

When Judge Richard Posner, the prolific conservative intellectual, released his book "A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression" last year, you might have thought the final verdict was in: Capitalism caused the... Full story

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