Went to work as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary. At 9:35 I went into the restroom, slipped on some water on the floor, and came crashing down in a way that I thought would cause everyone in the building to panic, thinking a bus had run into the side of the building, but I guess it only seemed that loud.

How much sunscreen should you use? Sunscreen labels sometimes recommend using a "liberal" amount. How much is that? For the average adult, the appropriate amount is a full palmful.That’s a little more than a teaspoon e

Anyone offhand know why the San Francisco Board of Supervisors can place ballot measures before the voters to change the terms of employee benefits, and their terms are binding, and it's not even particularly controversial in the very liberal and...

That's what Los Angeles journalist Jill Stewart sees developing after the primaries: California is about to see what happens when a not particularly rock-ribbed conservative Republican meets a not very hardcore liberal Democrat....

If you plan to be outside this weekend, here's how to protect your young child from the sun. Babies younger than 1. A new baby’s skin burns more easily, so try to avoid any sun exposure, especially direct exposure, u

In an age that prides itself on "candor" about sex, we have seen the emergence of new forms of hypocrisy, as well as new taboos on frank discussion. Liberals sneer at the phrase "the homosexual agenda," as

Pope Benedict XVI is guiding the church back to Traditional roots,  thanks be to God!

Color is one of the most important elements in any environment I create. Everything is a set to be designed usually with inexpensive or found pieces. Discards and thrift store items are liberally used in the decor. The chair closest to the door, a nice comfy old rocker, was left at the curb by neighbors. The wingback ch

I have been wondering when and who will be the first courageous Bishop to begin the process of cleaning up our church and clarifying with rightful authority

Within a decade, Arizona will be as reliably Democratic as California is today. And when that day arrives, we'll be able to trace it all to last Friday's passage of SB 1070. So writes Kos of the liberal website DailyKos....

Second Amendment advocates have held a series of provocative events in the past few months to protest what they see as an erosion of their right to keep and bear arms. And, as if on cue, liberals in the state Assembly are working hard to prove them right.

Second Amendment advocates have held a series of provocative events in the past few months to protest what they see as an erosion of their right to keep and bear arms. And, as if on cue, liberals in the state Assembly are working hard to prove them right.

Isn't it odd that liberal California has long allowed the open carry of an unloaded handgun, while presumably more libertarian and more 2nd Amendment friendly states like Oklahoma and Texas do not? (Gun-rights proponents in both states are trying to...

Sen. Sam Aanestad diagnoses the real problem in Sacramento: The problem in our elected assemblies today is not the person of good will, be they conservative, or liberal, Republican or Democrat, who passionately argues for their principles in free and...

Boy, did you miss the point in your editorial of March 27, "Herger a liberal? Only in the GOP primary season." Nowhere have I ever said Herger is a liberal. In fact, far from it. What I've said is that he has clearly strayed away from his conservative values a time or two and hasn't provided the strong conservative leadersh

Barack Hussein Obama won the highest honor that the elitists of the international left can bestow on one of their own. His very own Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine that! And what has our president done to deserve this lofty honor? Why, in the words of an infamous “Saturday Night Live” sketch, nothing, absolutely nothing. I�

Regarding your Saturday editorial "Herger a liberal?": Considering your editorial from March 21, 2009, about Herger's votes on TARP and the 90 percent CEO tax, this commentary is interesting.

Memo to Rep. Wally Herger's political opponents: If you think you've caught him casting a liberal vote, it's probably a mistake.

Economist Brad DeLong -- a Democrat but hardly a frothing-at-the-mouth liberal -- points out how the health care bill that Congress finally passed has its roots ... on the right. I like his finale: Over in that alternative branch of...

The President was right about one thing: The vote on Obamacare last night was a historic one. The Democratic Party has in the course of the nine-month health care debate revealed itself to be an anti-democratic Party and an anti-liberty party. It is a party that has demonstrated its contempt for the Constitutional framework

Today, tomorrow and Sunday should be the final days of the push for health care reform in the US House of Representative, and know it or not you want to support H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. Unless you are a hard-core conservative (more interested in handing a defeat to President Obama than in saving the liv

Dear reader, As a liberal/progressive, I am deeply disappointed in the Health Care Reform Legislation currently in front of the US House of Representatives—but I still strongly support the bill. As much as I wish the reform legislation had not been watered down in an attempt to garner conservative support, I

For half a decade, conservative Rep. Wally Herger and liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer have been haggling - along with Shasta and Tehama counties, tourism promoters, property developers, environmentalists and neighboring landowners - over just how to manage the Sacramento River Bend, an 18,000-acre patch of public land north of R

By the standards of California, Redding City Councilwoman Mary Stegall is pretty middle-of-the-road. But in Redding, she's found herself a perpetually besieged liberal standard-bearer --- a prime target of conservatives who tried to unseat her in 2004 and '06, and...

It’s raining. It’s been raining, it seems, forever. And, it’s days like these that set a retired guy to thinking. And, if you’re a liberal, living in Shasta county, that can’t be good. I’ve been thinking about billionaires. Thinking about the…

It's about time I stop being surprised that Jerry Brown doesn't live up to his reputation as an arch-liberal. The latest nail in the coffin of that dead idea is hammered by no less than Steve Forbes. From the Chron:...

I have to admit, I had to agree with part of what Sarah Palin had to say in her speech to the Tea Party Convention. And no, that doesn’t mean I have gone out of my mind (although listening to Palin left me dizzy and disoriented. Her lack of logical consistency was stunning.) However,

I promised myself I would not add to the publicity surrounding Sarah Palin. She spoke in Redding yesterday as part of the logging conference and she has brought out her faithful. Doni Greenberg wrote about the speech at ANewsCafe, and the comments following her story are mystifying. Palin supporters use w

It goes without saying (so why am I saying it?) that no one on the right liked the content of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union speech, and many on the left were less than impressed by what they considered a conservative turn in many of his proposals. Many liberal/progressive commentators (e.g. Rachel Maddo

Just when you think the Democrats running the California Legislature couldn't be more of a caricature of out-of-touch liberals, they top themselves: State lawmakers are taking aim at what some of them see as a menace to California's environment: free...

[I started this post to respond to a wretched article in the Washington Post, but I got carried away. I will follow this with my response to that article.] As though everyone has joined the tea-party and drank tea mixed with some very odd herbs, it has become popular to characterize Obama’s first year as a f

What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Barack Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent - and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president's second year.

Rachel Maddow whose show airs Monday through Friday on MSNBC is without a doubt one of the sharpest liberal/progressive commentators on the scene today, a fearless interviewer and a better reporter than Keith Olbermann. She also might as well be working for the Republican Party.

If you think 2009 sucked politically, imagine starting 2011 without a Democratic Party majority in the house or a minimum filibuster breaking 60 Democratic Senators. Worse, imagine the house and senate seasoned with newly elected teabag patri-nuts. If you enjoyed watching regular Republicans blocking and delaying

Tired of reading yet another complaint about the cost of pensions from "right-wingers" like Marc Beauchamp, Mary Machado, Steve Greenhut and Marcia Fritz? Me too. But it's nice to read one from the liberal Matthew Yglesias....

America has gone from the land of personal responsibility to the land of pathetic excuse-making, from top down, bottom up; and worse, to accepting of excuses – and the entire thing should be a cause for visceral disgust. The ‘culture of excuse acceptability’ has led us to this point, and if we don’t reverse it, it w

The ultra-liberal Brown is sounding like a fiscally conservative Chamber guy. From his column in yesterday's Chron: If we as a state want to make a New Year's resolution, I suggest taking a good look at the California we have...

This appeared in [anewscafe.com] on December 17. It's really delicious.I used pork ribs with brisket attached because they were MUCH cheaper than baby back ribs. I don't think Pappy's Seasoning is absolutely vital; you could use any commercial seasoning you like (Such as Tony

The Net roots are up in arms about the Senate's version of health care reform, with many rooters demanding it be voted down. The liberal establishmentarians lament the compromises they were compelled to accept but support the bill's passage. In between the two, indignant and stuck, is organized labor.

Now, far be it from me to open a new front in the War on Christmas, but I'd just like to say that it's far merrier, when someone says, "Merry Christmas," simply to reply, "Merry Christmas" -- instead of "Merry...

There are numerous reasons why so many liberal women hate and fear Sarah Palin. However, with the exception of her pro-life stance and perhaps her Christianity, it is not really her "principle-centered policies" that cause the foam-at-the-mouth hissyfits that afflict Palinophobes. They hate her on a much more personal level

In a bit of political theater unthinkable before this year, one of Redding's most powerful business leaders this evening championed a sales tax hike and chided the City Council's more liberal wing for failing to enthusiastically embrace that and nine other ideas for jump starting the local economy.

Sheila Kuehl, a former legislator from Santa Monica (if I'm not mistaken) was a very liberal member of the state Legislature back in the day. Now termed out, she ... blogs. What else? Whether or not you share her politics,...

Not radical if you're a liberal Democrat. Among them he wants the City Council to: Endorse for voter approval a one-year, 1 percent sales tax increase to pay for streets and other infrastructure work; Raising the sales tax, the most...

A truly weird suggestion comes from liberal press critics John Nichols and Robert McChesney in the Washington Post today about how the government should step in to help "save journalism." This, I think, is the gist: Did we just call...

The rural hamlet of Chikka Arasinakere in the South Indian state of Karnataka is run by an ox named Basava. Not exactly landlord or mayor; more like an oracle. All major decisions, public or private, are put to Basava and he handles them so judiciously that his fame has spread throughout South India. Busloads o

One thing I require of any news and opinion source is that it tries to provide accurate information, and in an effort to assure myself that the information I am getting is accurate, I try to read and or view several different sources daily and use other resources for fact checking as necessary. One “news source&rdq

In light of the most recent Nobel prize aware, and all the jokes about Obama winning the: Country Music Award's Male Vocalist of the Year, the Super Bowl MVP, and the honorary World Cup recipient...... This is really

There is still time to influence Healthcare Reform, use this link to find your Senators and email them, demanding they support the public option. Tell them you know that any Senator opposing the public option is selling out the American peop