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Californians and their governor have made it clear they don't want to give driver's licenses to those who come into the United States illegally, but that matters little to state lawmakers now working to keep unlicensed illegal immigrants behind the wheel.
An in-your-face measure that would allow the state to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants was held up in the Assembly Appropriations Committee last week, a move that will likely kill it, at least for now. Killing the bill...
I was out and about Monday morning, busy with my usual Monday morning activities, when yellow buses and kids on street corners reminded me it was the first day of school.
It also reminded me that, for the first time in 15 years, I wasn't a part of it.
Talk about bittersweet. My youngest graduated from high school last spring, so back-to-school nights, sports dinners and soccer games are now part of my past. I will miss them.
There are things about the high school...
The state's Republicans are partying hard this weekend at the California Republican Party Convention in Los Angeles, no doubt doing their best to cultivate a unified front for the November elections.
A commendable and necessary goal, to be sure, but it's going to take more than hand-rolled cigars and cognac to sway party conservatives, some of whom are still trying to figure out exactly where their GOP stands on the tough issues.
Apparently the convention's unofficial theme...
More than anything else, Donny Johnson wants to hug his mother. He wants to paint, to write, to share his passions with family and friends. In other words, he longs to enjoy life's simple pleasures.
What he and his supporters can't seem to grasp is that the convicted killer forfeited those pleasures when he took the life of another in 1980 and again in 1988 when he nearly succeeded in taking two others.
Johnson was serving time for second-degree murder at the state prison in...
There are no buts about it. Mel Gibson's drunken tirade was offensive, disturbing and virulently anti-Semitic.
That being said, the actor, like many of us, surely must be wondering "How long, O Lord, how long?"
How long will this story top the evening news? Hog the headlines? Clog the blogs?
Unless you've been living underground for two weeks you know the story. After a night of drinking in a Malibu bar, Gibson and his Lexus were pulled over by Los Angeles...
One more second chance. That's all Richard Core wants.
He's only 17 but knows he's already used up his share of second chances.
It's a story we parents have heard before. Richard started hanging out with the wrong crowd his freshman year at North High School. He stopped confiding in his mom about what he did and where he went. He made the wrestling team, but was cut because of poor grades. He made it to school, but never to class, preferring to hang out in the...
I heard from a local Vietnam veteran the other day. He was angry over a story that's making the rounds on the Internet. He wants others to be angry about it, too.
It's one of those stories that seem to live forever in cyberspace, a tale so unbelievably unAmerican you want to dismiss it as urban legend.
But it's true.
The story started two years ago when Republicans in the California Assembly invited Vietnam War hero Adm. Jeremiah Denton to speak at a Fourth of July ceremony on the...
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