Calling The ACLU: Stop The Legislature From Establishing A Religion
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez is troubled that many low-paid employees work on certain holidays instead of being home with their families. As a professional lawmaker, she proposes to address this problem by making a law: requiring double pay for holiday duty. The Assemblywoman figures higher pay justly compensates workers for being separated from their families on […]
Jerry Brown – Is The Fourth Time The Charm?
National Republicans have had a dreadful two months, culminating in their humiliating surrender to President Obama on funding the Department of Homeland Security. But now it is the turn of national Democrats to squirm, and that is over the strange affair of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. Democrats are hoping for a smooth 2016 transition from President […]
Following Up on ‘Will Brown Run for Prez’ Column
Posting Tony Quinn’s column above caused me to dig into back files of Fox and Hounds to a piece I wrote following the California Chamber of Commerce’s post-election conference after the 2012 November election. That was 2012, not this last election. In the final paragraph of the post I wrote the following: Standing around at […]
Arts and Culture Should Trump Political Correctness on Campus
University campuses are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas. Unfortunately, in today’s hyper-partisan and ideological world, there are those who want to close the marketplace to all but their own brands. Much attention has focused on UCLA in recent weeks as four members of a student council raised questions over whether it would be a […]
Let’s Brag About California’s Weather While We Still Can
One of the little joys of being Californian is the opportunity to taunt folks Back East about their terrible winter weather. Hey, Boston, how does it feel to have been colonized by Eskimos? But this winter, we seem to be overdoing it, sending out a blizzard of social media postings of palm trees and blue skies. It’s enough to […]