I actually favor the issuance of driver’s licenses to the undocumented. They, however, should be of a distinctive marking. But it gives us some control. If an illegal immigrant drives without insurance, or if he attempts to apply the Fifth […]
Howard Ahmanson
Where Did The Adoptable Children Go?
USA Today less than two weeks ago wrote about the “critical adoption shortage” now that Russia is cracking down in international adoptions. In addition to that, we are told that “as single parenthood becomes more acceptable,`there are just not as […]
Minimum Wages: A Modest Proposal
Ron Unz, generally considered a conservative but quirky, came out for a radical increase in the minimum wage here last year, not something you generally expect of conservatives, but then Ron Unz and his magazine, The American Conservative, generally take […]
Declining Birth and Marriage Rates Threaten Whom?
Jonathan Last says declining birth and marriage rates are “a threat to the right’s political survival”[?] More likely the left’s political survival; the right is making such babies as are being made, and all they have to do is educate […]
Why Social Conservatives are Still Needed
David Frum, who has written an e-book called While Romney Lost, says here that social conservatives [for which read Christians] are still useful, because they are the ones more likely to call attention to inequality and the declining living standard […]
On the Inhabitants of LA and CA
From Derek Sivers, one of the best descriptions of Los Angeles life I’ve ever read, and a lot of it applies to Orange County, even though the OC is not so much a center of the entertainment industry. [Before the […]
There’s More to the World than America
I am not all that upset about the November election, for two reasons: 1. The church is growing so fast in Africa and China that it more than makes up for our losses in America and the West. I feel […]
On Derek Sivers on Smart People
I have discovered a few wise sayings in the website of one Derek Sivers. This one is, “Smart People Don’t Think Others Are Stupid.” This is helpful to me. There are quite a few things I know that most people […]
California Steps Up Its Oil Drilling
People don”t associate California with the oil business nowadays, but anyone who has ever driven through Huntington Beach, Brea, Bakersfield, or a host of other places should know better. There was a time in the early 20th century when California”s […]
“HELL YEAH!!”
Derek Sivers, who I have run across recently, says we should never say Yes unless it”s on the level of “HELL YEAH!!” and otherwise we should say No. As a philanthropist I can see this clearly. We must say No […]