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The California dream ends in empty reservoirs and homeless tents

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and ...

Read the Bible over and over again

What podcast do you listen to? Who’s your go-to person when you want to find information? These two questions are pretty common for people today in the modern podcast era. There are all sorts of podcasts that are out there, ranging from historical podcasts to political podcasts to ...

The overweening pomposity of the old guard at CBS News

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to ...

Thief-in-Chief, in brief: Trump keeps his cash register ringing

Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade ...

Don’t give in to darkness

The lights and colors from the woods feed my spirit. Darkness can be depressing. Life combines light and dark, good and evil. I still have a hard time seeing an evil heart. I have never met a truly evil person. Think what it must take to convince a child or an adult to kill people they don’t ...

Duggan had a math problem

The sojourn up to T.C. to squeeze in some quality holiday family time began uneventfully on Thursday to avoid the holiday traffic. About forty minutes in, the cell went off. Having forgotten to take it out of the trouser pocket, and remembering that Smoky was ticketing those who drive and ...