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I don't know what was more shocking about the recent state Supreme Court decision to redefine marriage — the reasoning behind the ruling or the justices’ blatant disregard for the will of the people.
A lot of Californians are still reeling from the court's 4-3 decision to overturn Proposition 22, the measure that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and was supported in 2000 by 61 percent of state voters.
That definition, concluded the four, is...
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...
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