In the first round of the National Football League draft last month, the San Francisco 49ers selected defensive lineman Mykel Williams. Before he shows up in the city by the bay, the Georgia star might review the experience of Ricky Pearsall, the…
Kudos to President Donald Trump for moving to cut off the spigot of federal funds for the California High-Speed Rail project during the first month of his second term. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that $4 billion in funding,…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a webpage last month to fight misinformation and disinformation about the tragic wildfires in Los Angeles. Irony is dead. The self-appointed Disinformation Czar doesn’t seem to realize he is one of the leading sources of…
In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared a house in the neighboring town of East Setauket with two of my fellow students in the English department. While…
For in joy will you go And in peace will you be brought along. The mountains and the hills will break into song before you And all the trees of the field clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12 Phil Lesh recounted…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The latest statewide polls show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in California by 22 percentage points in the presidential race, which can be expected given the state’s deep-blue politics. In 2020, Joe Biden beat Trump by 29…
Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, have a rivalry that stretches back twenty-five years. In this showdown, Kamala has won, leaving Newsom deeply resentful. Egotistical and occasionally impulsive when his ego is threatened,…
WASHINGTON — “My values did not change,” Kamala Harris asserted during her Thursday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash. Lucky for Harris, Bash did not press the vice president to give an honest reckoning on her record as a prosecutor and…
Early surveys are showing that Kamala Harris, who was polling 6-8 points behind former President Donald Trump, essentially has caught up. It means nothing. I have written a million times about the fickleness of the American voter. It is commonplace…
