Marketing to children and parents“Pressure on food companies to stop marketing sugary cereals, soft drinks, and ‘junk’ foods to children seems to have worked—somewhat—and kids are seeing far fewer ads for unhealthy foo

Barack Obama’s considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform and a near trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country. But spent nonetheless. There’s nothing l

If I were President Obama, I’d be seriously rethinking James Clapper’s nomination to be director of national intelligence. At the very least, I’d call him in — along with the umpty-ump other intelligence chieftains — and order up another look at the serious problems with the sprawling intell

It won’t make a noticeable dent in the trillion-dollar federal deficit or improve the mood of off-roaders who feel new policies are shutting them out of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, but a bill sponsored by Rep. Wally Herger that last week landed on President Obama’s desk is a small step forward for eff

Here are more capitalists, afraid to invest in Obama's America. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Venture capitalists funneled more money into U.S. startups in the second quarter, indicating continuing confidence that the economy is on the mend. A study scheduled for...

In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House.

If you could spend vast amounts of other people’s money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn’t you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money just by using the magic words “stimulus” and “jobs.”

Wally's getting some far-flung ink for his ambitious proposal to scrap President Obama's health care law. This McClatchy News dispatch was reprinted on the Miami Herald's web site. Excerpt: WASHINGTON - Rep. Wally Herger wants to junk the new federal...

The two chairs of Obama's debt commission sounded a downbeat note over the weekend. The WashPost reports. Excerpt: The commission leaders said that, at present, federal revenue is fully consumed by three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "The rest...

Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement.

Maybe Ted Arman will have better luck than Yours Truly -- all I've ever gotten back from the White House is a form letter sent no less than six months later. Arman e-mailed me his July 1 epistle: Dear Mr....

A Google search of “Obama” and “narcissist” results in some 1,260,000 links detailing the current hot-button relationship between the two words.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s avoidance of the obvious continues the absurd and embarrassing refusal of the Obama administration to acknowledge who out there is trying to kill Americans and why. In fact, it has banned from its official vocabulary the terms jihadist, Islamist and Islamic terrorism.

Media Blackout of Supreme Court “Battle” MRC Analysis: ABC, CBS and NBC Virtually Ignore Kagan Controversies; No Soundbites from Conservative Groups By: Rich Noyes | View PDF Version June 24, 2010 09:46 ET When President Obama picked Elena Kagan to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the broadc

The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse. Let's stop and think. Either government officials know how to stop the oil spill or they don't. If they know how to stop it, then why have they let thousands of barrels of oil per day keep gushing out, for weeks on end? A

The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse. Let's stop and think. Either government officials know how to stop the oil spill or they don't. If they know how to stop it, then why have they let thousands of barrels of oil per day keep gushing out, for weeks on end?

Erin and I were surprised to find ourselves on the cover of our local newspaper, the Record Searchlight for Friday June 11, 2010. Obviously, we were interviewed and photographed, but had no idea we'd be on the front page

The leader of one of our local tea party groups features prominently in a San Jose Mercury story headlined "In California, tea party starts looking past elections:" "If the Obama administration and this Congress went away tomorrow, there's still a...

A columnist in the Heartland is asking Herger and the GOP to stop bellyaching about a glossy Medicare brochure being mailed by the Obama administration to millions of seniors. Opines Jonathan Riskind: Let's flash back to 2004, shortly after the...

Sean Jacobs, son of Robert and Jacquelyn Jacobs of Redding, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. on May 22, 2010. He was personally congratulated by President Barack Obama upon receiving his diploma and commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Sean graduated from Foothill High S

The White House would like us to believe that the four-day visit of Hamid Karzai had resolved some of the obvious differences between Barack Obama and the Afghan president, both in the pursuit of the war and the stabilization of the government. Perhaps that is true to some degree, but the issues are far from being settled.

Karl Rove, during a Q&A with local reporters this morning, was asked about a lot of subjects, including what he thinks about the current president. Not a great shock, the Republicans' leading political strategist isn't a fan, but in particular...

This morning Carl and Linda Bott mediated a debate between incumbent Shasta County District Attorney, Jerry Benito, and challenger for the office Steve carlton.Jerry Benito sounded rehearsed and clean, while Mr. carlton was choppy and not very well spoken. One might surmise that The less rehearsed and smooth a candida

In his speech Thursday in New York, President Obama complained that "some on Wall Street forgot that behind every dollar traded or leveraged, there is a family looking to buy a house, pay for an education, open a business or...

There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945.

Congressional candidate Pete Stiglich's latest campaign newsletter quotes an R-S story from August and finds fault with the incumbent, Rep. Wally Herger: Asked about Sarah Palin's controversial remarks that Obama's health plan is "evil" and will lead to government "death...

Turns out not everyone was watching the HCR debate on C-Span. From McClatchy: Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors' offices, human resources departments and business groups. "They're saying, 'Where do we get the free Obama care, and how...

We can't afford 'reform' The passing of Obamacare was a sad day for America and it shows how fiscally irresponsible and corrupt the Democratic Party has become.

President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, as well as the subsequent reconciliation bill. In signing these, he added the third leg to the structure upholding the social safety net - Social Security, Medicare and, now, near-universal health care. All were Democrat-led initiatives.

What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama's America?

My hope is that some right-leaning independents will read this and begin to question their beliefs and political leaning. I know that none of this matters to hard core conservatives, who are perfectly content to believe that

That union address was that sucker l-o-n-g. If I were to dissect every bit of deceptive rhetoric in it, this column would be even longer. That’s not going to happen. But there was one section that I found particularly outrageous. Before I get to it, however, I want to mention the folks who were sitting behind our Dis

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�

Who knew President Obama would be saying that? WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural...

As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh.

The Obama administration will announce on Friday a broad new initiative to help troubled homeowners, potentially refinancing several million of them into fresh government-backed mortgages with lower payments. The escalation in aid comes as the administration is under rising pressure from…

The United States Mission to the United Nations is being accused of pressuring pro-life countries to sign onto a document on maternal mortality that stresses abortion and birth control. Peter Smith with the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and Jeanne Head of the National Right to Life Committee say the U.S. del

Tax increases are likely to top $500 billion over 10 years. The enactment of health care reform marked the beginning of one of the biggest tax hikes in American history. And families will pay the price. president Barack Obama signed the reform into law Tuesday and ushered in a massive tax increase for the American people. D

I am back. I have been awake since about 5 AM yesterday London time, which comes to about 26 or 27 hours, something along those lines.I understand that during my absence America finally, finally caught up with the rest of the civilized world, and thank you and bless you Mr. Obama (as one who benefitted once from

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...

America suffered an atrocity of catastrophic proportions last night and it’s not clear if the nation will ever recover.On Sunday a few hours after Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and his voting bloc sold out their co

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

House approves health overhaul, sending landmark bill to Obama. Click here for the “New York Times” story