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There was a time in California when Republicans held fast to the party line on a host of fiscal and social issues without even breaking a sweat.
These days the philosophical chasm between conservative and moderate Republicans is so great that many aren't even sure what the party line is.
Chad Vegas -- local pastor, Kern High School District trustee and burr under the saddle of moderates and liberals here and throughout the state -- requires no such clarification, which is likely why he...
The Supreme Court's ruling Wednesday to uphold the ban on partial birth abortions was compassionate, just and absolutely no threat to a woman's basic right to an abortion, but zealous supporters of the gruesome procedure are gnashing their teeth over the decision anyway.
"A major strike against a woman's right to choose," railed California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
"An erosion of constitutional rights," fumed Sen. Hillary Clinton.
A "hard right turn ... a stark...
The recent call for an open-space committee has left some private property advocates with a case of the jitters.
It’s not that they’re opposed to friendly discourse on the open-space issue, but when the government official calling for the committee is the same one who led the charge last year that may yet regulate private property out from under its lawful owners, well, you can understand their alarm.
Kern County Supervisor Mike Maggard’s call last month for the creation...
Whenever I write columns criticizing the entertainment media for disparaging or degrading depictions of certain people groups, I'm invariably treated to a snarky lecture or two on the basic tenets of free speech and how to operate the on/off button on my television set.
But those same voices, I notice, are silent in regard to the firing of shock-jock Don Imus, who finally stepped over that nearly imperceptible line between what is and is not acceptable in a country where the right to...
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