There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. . . .

President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan call their $4 billion program of education reform grants the Race to the Top. . . .

Yesterday, the state’s Assembly Rules Committee passed a measure banning the chamber from purchasing vehicles for its fleet if less than half of said auto is manufactured and assembled in the U.S. . . .

If, as once suggested by John Nance Garner that the vice presidency of the United States isn’t worth “a bucket of warm spit” (“spit” being a PG-13 version of a different bodily function Garner had in mind), then what can we say about the lieutenant governor of California? . . .