Wonder why Warren Buffett is a billionaire and you're not?

By John Seiler: Wonder why you have trouble paying your family’s bills? Maybe you home is in foreclosure? Wonder no more. Here’s veteran California reporter Dan Walters: It appears certain that the $11.1 billion water bond, the centerpiece of a

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SF leads the way

Steven Greenhut: It’s ironic that the city of San Francisco — a great city that is nevertheless known for its wacky, left-wing politics — has been in better shape than far more conservative areas in terms of pensions. That’s because

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Hillary's July 4 conversion

Steven Greenhut: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her tour of Eastern Europe, warned, “[W]e must be wary of the steel vise in which governments around the world are slowly crushing civil society and the human spirit.” That’s true, of

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Falling crime despite scare tactics

JULY 4, 2010 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary,” observed the journalist, critic

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A Reagan holiday?

JULY 4, 2010 Ronald Reagan had a “humble background” but “worked throughout his life serving freedom and advancing the public good.” He “served with honor and distinction” for eight years as U.S. president. His “commitment to the nation’s children helped

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