WRITING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
I recently received an email from a young man in Temecula who asked if it was too late to write stories about Christmas. I'm letting him know now that magazines are filled to the gills for Christmas and New Years.
Israel needs to be larger, not smaller
Anyone holding the idea that Israel needs to accept a two-state solution to survive has not thought through the problem. Or perhaps they have indeed thought through the problem and have decided that a two-state solution is a step along the way to dissolving Israel as a state of the Jews, which is just fine for them but not for the Jews.
Small aircraft shouldn’t be allowed to keep spewing toxic lead into communities
Lead was phased out of gasoline sold for cars and trucks decades ago. But that brain-damaging fuel additive used to prevent engine knock is still being spewed into the air across the nation — including Southern California — by small aircraft that use leaded fuel.
Like Reagan, Schwarzenegger and Brown, Newsom uses veto pen to rein in spending by California lawmakers
It’s the job of a governor to play adult supervisor and not give adolescent state legislators all the spending money they’d like. Otherwise, they’d break the family bank. All modern California governors have performed this role, often in different ways and frequently with relish.
Republican disarray on the House speakership nothing new
The current kerfuffle in the Republican party’s attempt to select a Speaker of the House to replace Kevin McCarthy brings to mind the ascension and later resignation of Newt Gingrich as Speaker following the Republican Revolution vote of 1994.
