Any of the current Republican Candidates for the 2012 presidential election represent a distinctly better choice to lead this country than President Obama. Conservatives and those with a Kool-Aid hangover know that a second term for Obama would result in the further decline of America. Thus they will rally behind whomever t

It's not just environmental activists who can throw legal sand in the gears of government decision-making. Conservatives can get in the game too — and heck, why shouldn't both sides play?

Bob Wilkinson's Sunday letter was typical liberalspeak. He defined himself to a T, then claimed these were conservative traits. It's almost as if liberals and conservatives think with the opposite sides of their brains.

Two political analysts, one from the bipartisan Brookings Institute, and the second from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, are coming out with a book on the polarization in our politics.

I read, with much interest, Bob Wilkinson's reply to Barbara Riddle's conservative comments. I know neither Wilkinson nor Riddle personally, but I found it ironic that Wilkinson would criticize Riddle's commentary as being based "on falsehoods spread on emails, tweets and other forms of social media".

A conservative property-rights attorney Monday told a group of about 50 tea party activists in Redding the only way to fight a global effort to impose burdensome environmental regulations that lock up public land and hinder private property rights is to appeal to local government leaders to demand "coordination."

I'm saddened to say, but the letter from Barbara Riddle (Tuesday) probably echoes the thinking of many extreme conservatives in the north state.

A Siskiyou County supervisor says he's mulling jumping into the Assembly race against Redding City Councilman Rick Bosetti, the only Republican candidate to have officially declared in the newly drawn 1st Assembly District.

After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. But he isn't just the last man standing. He is the first challenger to be plausibly presidential: knowledgeable, articulate, experienced, of stable chara

The gray wolf that made history by crossing the state line into California last week wandered into eastern Shasta County sometime Thursday. The wolf’s entrance drew applause from wildlife groups and fierce condemnation and concern from local ranchers and conservative politicians.

My conservative friends and correspondents can't seem to stop talking lately about Agenda 21 --- a nearly 20-year-old U.N. resolution that aims not just to protect the environment but, to hear critics tell, abolish private property, wreck the American economy...

One hears a lot of complaints from conservatives that stopping the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Louisiana would not stop the tapping of Canada's tar sands but only move the oil to China. But I had not heard...

Conservatives never miss a chance to rant about how they don't believe in evolution. "It should never be taught in schools."

The conservative backers of Proposition 8, the 2008 measure to ban same-sex marriage in California, are downright jubilant in response to Thursday's state Supreme Court decision that they have legal standing to defend the measure in court.

Republicans/conservatives are always saying, "We want government out of our lives" and "We want less federal government control."

That's what the conservatives who sponsored the "Defend Rural America" event up in Siskiyou County called the sheriffs -- including Shasta County's Tom Bosenko -- who took part. Well just what is a "Constitution Sheriff"? Well, I think Richard Mack...

YREKA — At a recent rally of at least 700 farmers, tea party members and conservative activists, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey spoke in almost revolutionary terms, framing the actions of federal and state regulators as threats the county's livelihood.

In the conservative north state, the commonly prescribed course of treatment for the deep deficits that have plagued the state of California in recent years is a seemingly commonsense one: Cut spending.

This time last year, Redding residents could barely leave the house without hearing union arguments about how Redding's city councilors were "dictators" for pushing two November ballot measures that called for city workers to pick up a modest share of the cost of their retirement benefits.

I have a question for conservatives.

A panel of Northern California sheriffs will speak to farmers and conservative activists Saturday in Siskiyou County about their concerns state and federal environmental over-regulation and forest shutdowns are hurting public safety.

When I was 15, I was told that Social Security wouldn't be there for me when I reached retirement age. Now, 55 years later, I hear the same lies directed at today's young working people. They come from the same people who have always hated Social Security: conservatives.

Is it some kind of record that there are three -- yes, three -- Republicans who are challenging the north state's longtime incumbent Rep. Wally Herger in next year's primary? For those keeping score at home, Gregory Cheadle announced his...

No slogan is more popular among conservative politicians in California, nationally and internationally than "no new taxes." Almost no Republican gets anywhere without signing a pledge never to approve new levies of any kind for any reason. Violating the pledge is political death.

To hear a lot of conservatives tell it, the reason California has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country is that the state's heavy regulations are killing businesses. I don't think any sane person would disagree that it's difficult to...

OK, I do understand why religious conservatives and parents in general might bristle at Assembly Bill 499, which would allow children as young as 12 to get themselves a dose of the HPV vaccine without their parents' consent. Some people...

Liberals are elated that President Obama is finally primed for a fight. Conservatives are happy to take up the chant of "class warfare."

Have you been handed a petition by the conservative activists who are trying to force a referendum on Senate Bill 48? (I was sitting across a picnic table from one of them at the Honeybee Festival in Palo Cedro yesterday,...

At 81 years of age, Earl Bydalek hasn’t really grasped the concept of slowing down. Well, maybe just a little. “I just had a hip replacement at Christmas,” he said. “I’m still riding, but more conservatively.” Bydalek, who moved to Redding from Nebraska when he was 12 and operated Earl’s Auto Electric for 40 y

My vote in the 2012 presidential election is pretty locked in. I will continue only to vote for true conservatives, i.e., Ronald Reagan. I didn't vote for John McCain, and I won't vote for Mitt Romney. Fortunately, Gov. Rick Perry has thrown his hat in the ring. To try to evaluate the contenders in this upcoming bou

It's hard to imagine many small-government conservatives cast votes for Gov. Jerry Brown last November, and a handful of obscure decisions won't — and shouldn't — bring them over to the Democrat's political camp.

... I can't help but be taken aback when so-called conservatives post articles on their blogs with headlines like "Ballots or Bullets?" asking whether it's time to take up arms against "authoritarian rule of Democratic Socialism envisioned by Barack...

In a piece about Rick Perry and the immigration debate, The Atlantic's Erica Greider offers this surprising fact from the otherwise very conservative state: [M]ost of Texas's major cities have sanctuary policies in place, and why this year's Perry-backed bill...

In a piece about Rick Perry and the immigration debate, The Atlantic's Erica Greider offers this surprising fact from the otherwise very conservative state: [M]ost of Texas's major cities have sanctuary policies in place, and why this year's Perry-backed bill...

A Redding tea party group will be featured Wednesday on conservative commentator Glenn Beck's Web-based program.

Many conservatives (as well as the House Progressive Caucus) balked at approving the debt-limit bill (which has passed). Rep. Wally Herger was not among them, his office announces: "The Budget Control Act is a significant step toward changing the culture...

If there's any evidence to that effect, I'd really like to see it. But a labor group is running radio ads in Southern California trying to scare voters out of signing petitions (for the "Amazon tax" referendum and other conservative...

The political fates are truly smiling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Even as he tours the country, talks to potential conservative supporters (including those in Northern California) and weighs running for president, the Texas governor is blessed with this kind...

The Weekly Standard's Christopher Caldwell has a fascinating look at what Elizabeth Warren -- liberal political heartthrob and GOP bogeywoman -- actually thinks. After reviewing the arguments of her 2003 book "The Two-Income Trap," the author writes: You can euphemize...

I've heard talk that the California Republican Assembly this weekend kicked David Reade (Jim Nielsen's chief of staff) and Mark Spannagel (Doug LaMalfa's) out of the venerable conservative group. Their sin? They stand accused of manipulating the CRA's endorsement process,...

In an otherwise reasonable take from conservative lawyers John Eastman and Charles Bell on the role of Republicans on the Citizens Redistricting Commission -- bottom line: they argue the maps unduly favor Democrats, and the Republican members should exercise their...

Bruce Bartlett writes a provocative column this morning. And no, he's not accusing Obama of abusing the powers of the presidency, which ultimately brought Nixon down. Liberals hoped that Obama would overturn conservative policies and launch a new era of...

Somehow I think the conservatives who are seeking a voter repeal of Senate Bill 48, recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, will have no problem gathering the half-million signatures they need....

John Seiler, a conservative former editorial writer for the O.C. Register, declares term limits "a bust." I remember rhapsodizing on how America's Founding Fathers would "take a few weeks off every year from their plows or shops to conduct the...

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, no conservative, thinks a labor-led push to raise the income tax further could backfire, or so he told reporters at the Sacramento Press Club. Though the wealthy doubled their take of the state's income between 1996...

Social conservatives want government to do more to encourage marriage and prevent breakups. A New Mexico legislator has proposed requiring parents to undergo counseling before the divorce; Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback recently heard a suggestion to repeal no-fault divorce in that state. And the conservative Heritage Foundation

1738 Almaden -Click to enlarge We get love notes from Fannie Mae, now and again. This one tempted us with advance knowledge of an upcoming property for sale near the Mary Lake neighborhood. A little bit o

A cranky Southern California county supervisor last week served up the latest notion of splitting up California, with the idea of resolving our endless political disputes between liberal and conservative zones by seceding. It'll go about as far as Stan...

Reconstruct because of the Deconstruct Remember this statement from your Messiah B. Hussein Obama …“My Friends, we live in the greatest Nation in the history of the world.  I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.”-Barack Hussein Obama. With the trillions of dollars he gave to his friends and pet organiza

Shasta County's conservative residents tend to be skeptical about global warming and especially the liberal Legislature's drive to reduce California's "carbon footprint."