NATIONAL VIEW: Leaked data reveals tax code rigged toward the rich
Internal Revenue Service data obtained by ProPublica and published recently shows in black and white just how rigged toward the rich the U.S. tax...
NATIONAL VIEW: Water rationing is not the solution for our drought
Not long after former Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of a grueling six-year drought in 2017, the Legislature passed two controversial water-efficiency laws...
NATIONAL VIEW: The great American labor shortage
Businesses nearly everywhere in America say they’re desperate for workers, and the latest statistical evidence is the Labor Department’s Jolts report last Tuesday of...
NATIONAL VIEW: The judge is wrong: California’s assault-weapons ban must stand
You can almost see these words in a gunmaker’s advertising brochure: “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination...
NATIONAL VIEW: The whitewashing of American history continues
“We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know,” President Joe Biden said last Tuesday from...
NATIONAL VIEW: Maine senators should back D.C. statehood
Every American has one representative in Congress and two senators, who are elected to look out for their interests in the national government.
Every American,...
NATIONAL VIEW: ‘The mob made me do it’ and other lame excuses from Jan....
Some of the defendants facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol deserve points for creativity. Among the defense arguments emerging...
NATIONAL VIEW: The Texas voting melodrama
As the Texas legislative session drew near its end Sunday, lawmakers appeared set to pass a bill overhauling the state’s elections, until Democrats did...
TEXAS VIEW: Lawmakers wrong to meddle in local law enforcement budgets
Pop quiz: When is it a bad idea for the Texas Legislature to take action on an issue?
A. When the matter involves local spending...
NATIONAL VIEW: One year later: The renewed push for equality in America
One year ago, a Minneapolis police officer squeezed the life out of George Floyd a minute at a time as the handcuffed 46-year-old Black...