David Brooks: The conservative future
If you listened to the Republican candidates this year, you heard a conventional set of arguments. But if you go online, you can find a vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conver…
View ArticleCharter schools making headway in communities
It was 20 years ago that Gov. Pete Wilson signed the California Charter Schools Act into law, and California became the second state, after Minnesota, to approve charter schools. With the gove…
View ArticleLocal fight continues in combating HIV/AIDS
It’s been more than 30 years since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic and there are several reasons to be hopeful. Globally, the number of people becoming infected with HIV continues to fall, …
View ArticleAn injustice faced by our military women
This election season, politicians made many outrageous statements about rape and pregnancy, usually in relation to a woman’s right to choose abortion. To no one’s surprise, these politicians p…
View ArticleMark Twain held government in humorous disdain
Having passed Congress, only President Obama’s signature now stands in the way of issuing Mark Twain commemorative coins. That honor is ironic, because Twain earned much of his fame through hi…
View ArticleDavid Brooks: ‘Lincoln’ and why we should love politics
We live in an anti-political moment, when many people – young people especially – think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business. It’s much nobler to do community servi…
View ArticleRuben Navarrette: Democrats not what they seem on immigration reform
After Latino voters helped re-elect President Obama – delivering the battleground states of Nevada and Colorado, and contributing to the victories in Florida and Virginia – a consensus quickly…
View ArticleSanders' proposal threatens desal approval
San Diego’s water, bio-tech and business communities have worked long and hard through an exhausting regulatory process, unrelenting litigation, and staunch, but unfounded environmental opposi…
View ArticleHelping the homeless: Action and compassion needed
Momentum is building in San Diego’s efforts to help homeless individuals permanently get off the streets. By combining the focus and resources of the public and private sectors, as well as man…
View ArticleMessage of election: Structural change needed in Legislature to get money out
The news is filled with all kinds of post-election analysis. Most of it involves how the parties fared in terms of demography, issues and turnout.
View ArticleRobert J. Samuelson: Why the recovery is feeble
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week became the latest economist to ask why the current economic recovery has been so weak. The question has inspired a cottage industry of studies, …
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Politics with a purpose
It is Steven Spielberg’s singular achievement to have made a heroic movie about compromise and petty corruption. In “Lincoln,” he pans away from a field of corpses 130 miles down the road in P…
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: A cliff of their own choosing
With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care –…
View ArticleNew STEM visa law could transform U.S. economy
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM – this is the foundation of a 21st-century economy.
View ArticleReform in China: the reasons for optimism
China’s 18th Party Congress ended in an anticlimax on Nov. 14. It broke no new ground and disappointed hopes for intraparty democracy. Amid scandals, personnel speculations and secrecy-induced…
View ArticleTime to end battles over Children’s Pool
Should children and seals be allowed to share the same patch of sand in La Jolla? That’s been the subject of several lawsuits over the past decade. Hopefully, a recent decision by Judge Joel P…
View ArticleBinational office in Tijuana will benefit region
The election of Bob Filner as mayor of San Diego can bring positive trans-border economic growth with his plan to open an office in Tijuana for direct and timely communications with that city’…
View ArticleGiving up on Gaza
When Israel withdrew its settlers and military from the Gaza Strip in 2005, the Palestinians who lived there were given a long-awaited opportunity to finally govern themselves and to transform…
View ArticleTime for a Pacific, Latin American cooperative
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is the most successful and formidable military alliance to ever exist. Created from the ashes of World War, the alliance has grown to fulfill a gr…
View ArticleRobert J. Samuelson: Soaking the rich – a road map
As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there’s an agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” it will almost certainly contain large tax increases mostly or entirely on…
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