By James E. Koutz When people think of veterans, they often think of warriors, but Hurricane Sandy offers just the latest reminder of the significant humanitarian and often times life-saving work performed by our veterans […]

No academic or pseudo-academic study has had more impact on California public affairs this fall than a 32-page tome about what’s wrong with this state, coming from the New York-based Manhattan Institute and bearing the […]

Weeks before this month’s election, President Obama began to realize his only chance for victory: Awaken the so-called sleeping giant of American politics, the approximately 50.5 million Latinos or Spanish-speaking U.S. residents, 26 million of […]

If there was one big reason why “paycheck protection,” on Tuesday’s ballot as Proposition 32, failed for the third time in the last 16 years, it was this: The concept by itself is simply unfair. […]

“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states…” Barack Obama famously observed in 2004. “But I’ve got news for them: There’s the United States of America.” Obama went […]

While I’m not hearing much about many of my generation out in the trenches working for the Obama/Biden ticket, I know that their emotions are at least running hot. Part of this comes from a […]

When a car company blunders by installing, say, a power window switch that might catch fire, it issues a recall and fixes – for free – as many as 2.5 million cars. Toyota issued precisely […]