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There’s been a lot of bad in the news this week, but first place in the how-low-can-you-go category surely goes to the creeps who stole the field trailer from Houchin Blood Bank early Tuesday morning.
The thieves apparently stopped by the blood bank in the wee hours, unhitched the trailer from a company truck, hooked it up to their own ride and hightailed it home.
Stealing from a blood bank? An agency whose sole purpose is to save lives? Makes one wonder how the sticky fingered...
In case you haven’t heard, there’s an election coming up, on June 3.
I only mention it because some folks tell me they were surprised this week to find sample ballots in their mail. And if the turnout Tuesday night at the Bakersfield Republican Assembly’s candidates forum is any indication, voter interest in this particular election is very low.
The forum featured the eight judicial candidates running for two Superior Court seats and the two men vying for the job of...
If the point of a documentary film is to get people talking, then Ben Stein’s new movie, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” is wildly successful.
Film critics — always among the most reliably liberal of the liberal mainstream media — find nothing to like about this movie, which takes up the debate between evolution and intelligent design by interviewing college professors and scientists who were reportedly fired or denied tenure because they had the nerve to...
If Wednesday night’s City Council meeting is any indication, Russell Johnson will keep his job as planning commissioner.
So he should. By most accounts, Johnson has served ably; many say his service has been exemplary.
City Councilman Ken Weir’s call to remove Johnson from the commission, while allowed under the council’s appointment criteria, was ill conceived and poorly timed. It also stirred up considerable community angst, not to mention the overkill media coverage....
The U.S. Supreme Court took a long, hard look at death penalty procedures in this country, finally concluding this week that lethal injection is not unconstitutional after all.
Not that it ever was, but the anti-death penalty people are relentless at finding new and duplicitous ways of stopping justice in its tracks.
They were foiled again in a 7-2 decision by the Court, which upheld Kentucky's lethal injection process, a method nearly identical to the one used here in California. The...
It’s only six weeks until Memorial Day. Is your flag fit to fly?
It may seem a bit early to prepare for a holiday many Americans barely acknowledge any more, but Fran Ramirez can’t start soon enough.
Every Memorial Day for the past decade, the 72-year-old Ramirez has made it her business to ensure that each of the 5,000 flags that flutter over the graves of American veterans buried in Union Cemetery is clean, pressed and free from wear.
As a member of the United Veterans...
One evening a number of years ago, while a student at Cal State Bakersfield, I was researching a paper in the school library when I paused to take a stretch.
As I glanced up, my gaze fell on a nearby computer screen, in front of which sat a man deeply engaged in a pornographic peep show.
It was a busy night in the library, yet the computer stations on either side of the pervert were empty, creating a narrow, but ineffective buffer zone for students clearly uncomfortable with the...
Scott Talley is descended from a distinguished line of medical professionals, including corpsmen that served in World War II and the Vietnam War.
This photo of Scott Talley was taken in the spring of 2003 somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers south of Baghdad.
The Bakersfield man says his ancestors greatly influenced his decision in 1999 to enlist as a corpsman in the U.S. Navy, where he developed a passion for battlefield medicine and the necessity of fast and often...
You have to hand it to Sen. Barack Obama. The man can really whomp up a speech.
The presidential hopeful from Illinois is obviously a brilliant orator whose recent reflections on the racial state of the union left many Americans, including the already infatuated mainstream media, more gaga than ever.
But in spite of Obama's spellbinding speaking skills, red flags are still flapping over the racist and incendiary remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the senator’s longtime...
If I read one more op-ed telling California’s home school parents to calm down and chill out, I may throw up.
For the record, home school parents aren’t panicked. They’re furious. And they should be.
I generally don’t tackle the same topic two Saturdays in a row, but my inbox was on fire this week with moms and dads furious over a California Court of Appeal ruling that parents have no legal right to home school their kids.
As it turns out, California’s...
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