The move this week to put a charter amendment on the November ballot to create a new Historic Preservation Commission in San Francisco overseeing historic buildings and landmarks seems like a great idea except for one reason: We don't need one. Read More

It may be fetching to some voters, but the theme of "change" so embraced by so many candidates in this year’s presidential contest is vacuous, an idea with absolutely no content in and of itself. We need change, we are nevertheless told: change, change, change, as if any kind of change would be ipso facto wonderful. Read More

During a secret briefing two years ago on waterboarding and other interrogation techniques employed by the U.S. government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood on her chair and waved her fists in the air, screaming at the Read More

As a new study underlines, we need to reform our immigration laws and crackdown on those who are breaking them, but first we need to get past the trash talk. It’s endless, a torrent of cries that anyone who thinks America ought to heed the plain interests of its citizenry is a racist, nativist, thuggish throwback to those who opposed the coming in the 19th century and later of the Irish, Germans and Italians. Read More