Yes on Prop. 34: Ramirez as a case study
Bill Carns puts his finger through the bullet hole in a pillow case that was the result of the attack in 1985 that left him paralyzed and brain damaged.He was asleep in this same bed in his Mission...
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SAN CLEMENTE, Richard Smith: I doubt whether Cindy Carcamo’s article, “Latino voters’ growing impact” [Front Page, Oct. 9], purposely intends to exacerbate racial tension, but the tendency of her...
View ArticlePolar opposites should make voting easier
President Barack Obama greets supporters on the tarmac upon his arrival on Air Force One, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora Colo. The president is making a two-day non-stop...
View ArticleEvaluating the conservative split in the GOP
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a pen while speaking to the media in the East Room of the White House, as Vice President Joe Biden (L) listens on Nov. 9, 2012 in...
View ArticlePetraeus scandal: public hypocrisies about private lives
FILE – In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and...
View ArticleThanksgivings both past and present
Participants dressed in traditional Pilgrim dress sit on the float that represents the first Thanksgiving during the Thanksgiving Parade in Plymouth, Mass., Nov. 17, 2012. Even after some of the...
View ArticleLet’s invest in a free market education
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Chris Berg: Writing in favor of the recently passed Proposition 30, Hao-Nhien Vu states, “Likewise, we could also live in an alternative universe where all education must be paid for...
View ArticlePrayer is the solution for working through tragedy
A woman brings balloons and other items to the makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, outside the school in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 17, 2012. As families...
View ArticleHousing market could stall state recovery
MCT illustration IRVINE, Lucy Dunn, president and CEO, Orange County Business Council: While putting the slow upswing of the state’s recovery into focus, Daniel Weintraub’s snapshot of key California...
View ArticleCorrosive ethanol blend hits our wallets
A man carries a bag of rice in a granary in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province Tuesday April 29, 2008. Experts say prices for rice, corn, wheat and other food staples have skyrocketed in...
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