Opinion Columns

Back in the 1970's, during his first term as governor Jerry Brown said "small is beautiful," one of a number of observations about California politics ... Read More

Making Sense, by Michael Reagan The late psychic Edgar Cayce was famed for predicting that in the not-too-distant future the entire state of California would ... Read More

I almost blew it this week and were it not for the timely intervention of two people I admire, I might still be careening down ... Read More

  It's an odd Americanism to elect someone to be in government who freely admits they don't like government. As if reluctance translates into competence. ... Read More

Two American cultural phrases seem to embody the current plight Barack Obama.   The first is via Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, the early 21st century's ... Read More

The mainstream media gets denounced on cable news programs, corporate talk radio, best-selling books and behemoth blogs every day. This strangely doesn't seem to bother ... Read More

Baseball is not only the Great American Pastime, but also the Great American Metaphor. So, it says here: If politicians and their supporters had behaved ... Read More

Tol-er-ance. Noun. Definition: sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own. Progressive Left definition: a fair, objective and permissive ... Read More

Making Sense by Michael Reagan Our country was founded on a revolutionary concept -- a new kind of government both empowered and controlled by its ... Read More

Independent's Eye by Joe Gandelman Pundits will be scrambling all week for a new conventional wisdom for the 2010 mid-terms election's meaning. Expect them to ... Read More