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Strong debate doesn’t require camping out

By: Steve Falk 11/30/11 8:37 PM
Nationwide, Americans are angry about the economy, unemployment and economic inequality. The Occupy demonstrations in New York, San Francisco and many other cities have spotlighted these concerns and sparked heated dialogue about the many economic and social challenges facing our cities and our nation. Such discussion and debate is warranted. But Occupy San Francisco has become too expansive, dangerous and damaging to continue in its current form. Read More

Student Occupy protesters owe a debt to California’s 1 percent

By: Dan Walters 11/29/11 11:37 PM
It’s difficult to divine exactly what the Occupy demonstrators in California cities and on university campuses are protesting.The former appear to be denouncing the greed of the “1 percent” — those with the highest incomes — while the latter are opposing fee increases that university boards are imposing to compensate for reductions in state appropriations. Read More

Blocking bombs gives buck its rightful bang

By: James Carafano 11/29/11 11:31 PM
Jose Pimentel decided to become an Islamic extremist, taking online lessons from al-Qaida on how to make war on the West. On Nov. 19, he was arrested for allegedly plotting a string of terrorist attacks in New York. His weapon of choice was the terrorist’s friend, an improvised explosive device. Read More

Drug industry needs revolution to streamline pricey research

By: Paul Howard 11/28/11 11:27 PM
Pundits have been weighing in on Big Pharma’s innovation drought for years, but recently Silicon Valley gurus like Intel’s Andy Grove and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have gotten into the act.Gates’ interest stems from his support for the Gates Foundation, which has made a tremendous commitment to vaccine development for “neglected” diseases in the developing world, like malaria. Read More

‘Superfail’ proved the cynics right

By: David Freddoso 11/28/11 5:00 AM
The failed deficit-reduction supercommittee was a gimmick designed to help Congress force itself to do something it did not want to do. It was the parliamentary version of the chronic straggler who sets his watch 10 minutes ahead in an effort to improve his punctuality. If you have ever tried this, it doesn’t work. And were it possible to achieve virtue through self-deception, our politicians would all be philosopher kings. Read More

GOP voters want candidate who will measure up during debates

By: Philip Klein 11/28/11 5:00 AM
Critics have accused the Republican electorate in recent years of putting a higher premium on ideological purity than on policy knowledge. Read More

‘Think Long’ report short on serious ideas

By: Steven Greenhut 11/27/11 5:00 AM
Would California be in better shape if former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gray Davis, or former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, were back in power? That’s an odd question given the fiscal mess that those politicians helped create, or at least were powerless to fix. Read More

Retailers’ woes mean it’s time to overhaul California sales tax

By: Dan Walters 11/27/11 5:00 AM
The Great Recession, as some call it, has a double-barreled impact on California retailers — especially those who sell non-necessity goods.The collapse of the housing market hit retailers of building materials and home-related goods, such as furniture. And, as many Californians lost their jobs, they and traumatized jobholders cut consumer purchases sharply. For instance, new-car sales, which had once topped 2 million vehicles a year, were cut in half. Read More

Newt Gingrich follows FDR with court-packing scheme

By: Ken Klukowski 11/25/11 5:00 AM
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s idea for checking judicial activism is a textbook case of historical revisionism that is strikingly similar to the court-packing scheme of liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Gingrich said Congress should just pass a law eliminating specific judgeships, presumably immediately ousting the activist judges currently filling those seats. Read More

Mitt Romney presidential nomination for GOP slate is all too evitable

By: William Kristol 11/25/11 5:00 AM
Should Mitt Romney be the nominee of the Republican party for president in 2012? Perhaps. Should voters support him because he’s the “inevitable” nominee? No. Read More
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