SWCS levy The SWCS levy passed. Out of 34,056 votes cast, there were 17,877 for and 16,179 against. It passed by 1,698 votes, or not quite 5 percent, which is hardly a mandate. The Dispatch reports that only about 41 percent of eligible South-Western voters came to the polls for that vote, which is sadly Read More
California Wants to Do It Themselves
Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta, has come up with an initiative to take on the task of securing California’s border with Mexico. He calls for creating an agency called the California Border Patrol. CBP would address “the supply and the demand side, both the employers who support illegal immigrants and the illegals who come across the Read More
The Boys (and Girls) of Summer
What is it about little league baseball that so moves people? This year I have a seven-year-old son in coach-pitch baseball; his nine-year-old sister in slow-pitch softball, and their six-year-old brother in t-ball. We’re spending a lot of time at the ball fields this year!
The Pendulum Swings
This story just moved me. I’ve asked in the past what changed in our society. When a mass shooting takes place, and people talk about how available guns are now, and how cheap life if, I point out that guns are harder to get through legal channels now than they’ve ever been in our country’s Read More
In Review: A Voice for the Dead
A Voice for the Dead: A Forensic Investigator’s Pursuit of the Truth in the Grave, James E. Starrs ISBN: 0399152253; 304 pages; Putnam Adult (February 17, 2005) Professor James Starrs is a Professor of Law as well as Professor of Forensic Science at the George Washington University, Washington DC. His work Scientific Evidence in Civil Read More