Commentary
- So you want to be an astronaut?
- Chicago Tribune
- "... The idea here ... seemed to be that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back in the last yawnin... Full story
- Op-Ed: Reaping the consequences of California's S.B. 48
- Art Fruhling
- Under the guise of anti-bullying, the recent signing of Senate Bill 48 into law, in my opinion, is a significant threat to the health of our educational system (K-12) in California. S.B. 48 mandated that at beginning of 2012, California schools must ... Full story
- Our View: A letter from the publisher
- Larry Riley
- Another year and another chapter comes to a close for our community, nation and world. Fittingly, much is to be celebrated during this time of year, and it's important to reach out to those very special people and organizations who make a difference ... Full story
- Connie Shultz: Teens in foster care deserve a Christmas, too
- Remember how hard it was to be a teenager? All that angst and self-doubt, surrounded by family who didn't understand you.
Now try to imagine what it's like to be that teenager in foster care, at Christmas.
Jen Burrows is 28 now, but every December ... Full story
- Danny Tyree: Merry Christmas: The skirmish dissected
- Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Season's Greetings. Like, Whatever, Dude.
I do not necessarily subscribe to the view that this devolution of yuletide messages represents a full-blown War On Christmas, unless you think of it as a faceless war of att... Full story
- Tina Dupuy: Confessions of a child janitor
- My first job was cleaning the group home I lived in. True story. I participated in the Summer Youth Employment Program part of the Job Training Partnership Act passed during Reagan's first term. It was a War on Poverty federal program considered to b... Full story
- Steven Greenhut: The real meaning of Brown’s ‘open letter’
- Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday released "An Open Letter to the People of California," in which he called for the state's taxpayers to approve tax-raising initiatives to "fix" the state's structural deficit. Here is the letter and my interpretation of wha... Full story
- Mike Reagan: Newt Gingrich is right
- Tom Brokaw has written a book about the Greatest Generation, a generation that grew up with fathers in the home who saw it as their duty to instill in their sons a work ethic. The Greatest Generation went on to win World War II. Newt Gingrich is righ... Full story
- Connie Schultz: The ever-devolving Mitt Romney
- Poor Mitt Romney.
The Republican presidential candidate has changed everything but his gender to appease his new best friends on the far right.
He used to be pro-choice; now he's anti-choice.
He used to support gay rights, but now he's against tho... Full story
- Thomas Sowell: Christmas books to consider
- The joys of Christmas do not include coping with crowds at shopping malls or wracking your brains trying to figure out what to get as a gift for someone who already seems to have everything.
Books are a way out of both situations. You don't even hav... Full story
