The Freedom View

It was predictable that President Barack Obama would pander again to entitlement sentiments. This time involves the misguided belief that everyone is entitled to homeownership, even at the government’s — the taxpayers’ —...... Full story

  By denying a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week, President Barack Obama may succeed in delaying until after November’s election the politically difficult decision of which loyal constituency to offend, big labor or...... Full story

These are indisputably tough times. Certainly, unemployment is not merely 8.6 percent, as Washington’s latest estimate suggests. Some say the true level of joblessness could be as high as 15 percent, or more, if we add the 315,000 people...... Full story

There is an inclination to avert our eyes when we see evil. It may be a natural inclination. It always is wrong. It is unclear how much detail legendary Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno knew from the eyewitness account related to...... Full story

It looks, finally, like U.S. troops will be leaving Iraq. According to President Barack Obama, the withdrawal means U.S. forces will be “home for the holidays,” fulfilling a campaign promise he made in 2008. No doubt the withdrawal will...... Full story

We’re certainly not lamenting the death of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Before being kicked out of power this summer by NATO-backed rebels, he tyrannized and terrorized his people for 42 years. He also engaged in acts of...... Full story

Attention, national and international, has focused on the anguish of Seal Beach, where gunfire inside a hair salon on a warm afternoon Wednesday left eight people dead and a woman wounded. The worst mass killing in Orange County history has stunned...... Full story

Will California Gov. Jerry Brown never relent in his quest for higher taxes and fees? His latest idea is a sneaky attempt to extend a 1.5 percent surcharge on electricity bills, which is set to expire Jan. 1, 2012. The surcharge, which raises $400...... Full story

  California is at the forefront of the scandal swirling around Solyndra, a bankrupt maker of solar panels in Fremont. Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy granted Solyndra LLC a $535 million loan guarantee. Last month, Solyndra...... Full story

  Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins this week, actually started as a single week in the 1960s under the Johnson administration; it was expanded in 1988 to cover the 30 days between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. The dates cover independence...... Full story

President Barack Obama this week finally will be addressing America’s jobs crisis. He’s been fiddling while the jobs burn. The U.S. unemployment rate remained stubbornly stuck above 9 percent for July. California’s rate is 12...... Full story

While the bitter blame game in Congress over the debt-ceiling crisis came to a welcome end last week, the outcome — while in the short term preventing the United States from an immediate default on debt obligations — will do little to...... Full story

Some anxious senior-citizen readers have been worrying to us that their Social Security checks might be held up by the wrangling over raising the federal debt ceiling. It’s worth clearing up that misconception and some others. Thursday,...... Full story

  Students at California public universities who complained so loudly about their recently increased tuition might be even more agitated if they realized that 30 percent of what they pay doesn’t have anything to do with what the...... Full story

A key state Senate committee vote Wednesday brought California one step closer to making healthcare insurance and consequently health care itself more costly, less accessible and even more under the clumsy control of government bureaucracies. The...... Full story