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Jonah Goldberg: Run, Paul Ryan, run

Run, Paul Ryan, run

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' decision not to run for president is bad or Republicans. Time for Rep. Paul Ryan to ride to the rescue.

 

'Drill, baby, drill' won't do it

Editorial: Conservation and a switch to renewable energy sources are the best hedges against rising oil prices.

Time for California to tackle prison overcrowding

Editorial: With the U.S. Supreme Court upholding an order to reduce the state's inmate population, the Legislature should take a first step by creating a panel to revise sentencing guidelines.

 
Secure Communities program: A flawed deportation tool

Secure Communities program: A flawed deportation tool

When federal officials first announced the Secure Communities program in 2008, they billed it as a powerful tool in the battle to identify...

Leave this ex-landfill alone

Leave this ex-landfill alone

Nobody likes to live near a landfill. But somebody has to. The residents of the northeastern San Fernando Valley who ring the grassy expanse...

Creating a 4th Amendment loophole

Creating a 4th Amendment loophole

One of the most important functions of the Supreme Court is to put legal limits on police excesses. But the court failed to fulfill that...

To fix California's budget, we need taxes too

To fix California's budget, we need taxes too

Lawmakers in Sacramento traditionally put off the toughest budget decisions until the governor's office updates its spending plan in mid-May...

Cellphones: Quieting the public nuisances

Cellphones: Quieting the public nuisances

Anyone who has been forced to endure a stranger's loud and public cellphone conversation in a supermarket line or a restaurant will...

In L.A., no more 'Gold Cards'

In L.A., no more 'Gold Cards'

City Controller Wendy Greuel released an...

Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases

Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases

Blame the flower children. That seems to be the chief conclusion of a new report about the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. The...

British-Irish relations: A royal stamp of approval

British-Irish relations: A royal stamp of approval

The visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland this week — the first by a British monarch in a century — was rich in symbolism, as...

Helping Haitians in the U.S.

Helping Haitians in the U.S.

The Obama administration this week extended what's known as "temporary protected status" for Haitians living in the United States. The...

In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don't matter

In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don't matter

Shortly after his party's "shellacking" in the midterm election, President Obama ordered government agencies to ensure that new...

Obama's Middle East speech: Nurturing the Arab Spring

Obama's Middle East speech: Nurturing the Arab Spring

President Obama sought on Thursday to recalibrate the United States' response to the Arab Spring, giving new weight to issues of democracy,...

Chile's buried secrets

Chile's buried secrets

Nearly 40 years after the violent military coup in which he perished, the remains of former Chilean President Salvador Allende will be...

Gregory Rodriguez: The old taboos, back in the news

Gregory Rodriguez: The old taboos, back in the news

Sex, power, class and race. The scandals encircling French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of sexually assaulting an...

Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears

Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears

We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.

America the stony-hearted

America the stony-hearted

When the political history of the last 30 years is written, scholars will no doubt describe a rightward revolution that jolted this...

What makes politicians stray?

What makes politicians stray?

Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the club of leading male political figures who are known to have cheated on their spouses. Other...

Foshay Learning Center: A model for success

Foshay Learning Center: A model for success

It's not pleasant to return to a place where, as a child, you were almost always afraid. So, a few years ago, when I stepped onto the campus...

If the dog ate your homework, read this

If the dog ate your homework, read this

Dear Students,

Tim Rutten: S.F. circumcision proposition doesn't belong on the ballot

Tim Rutten: S.F. circumcision proposition doesn't belong on the ballot

In November, the residents of San Francisco will not only cast their ballots on pressing state and local issues, they also will decide...

Calling Kadafi to account

Calling Kadafi to account

For a long time, Libyans have fantasized about what they would do if they could get their hands on Col. Moammar Kadafi. The idea I heard...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the sins of our systems

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the sins of our systems

Reactions to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn spectacle have been starkly different on the two sides of the Atlantic, and self-congratulations...

'Job killers' that aren't

'Job killers' that aren't

Since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce has published an annual hit list of bills it labels job killers. The list has included...

Fighting mosques in the name of freedom

Fighting mosques in the name of freedom

Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided...