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Author: Leslie Eastman

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Leslie Eastman

I am an Environmental Health and Safety Professional, as well as a science/technical writer for a variety of news and professional publications. I have been a citizen activist since 2009, and am one of the co-founders of the San Diego-based group, Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.

Back in the early 2000's, the Enron scandal lead to California's rolling blackouts.  As a result, as an environmental health and safety specialist, I began including information on handing power outages into company safety manuals. Now, thanks to "Green Energy", it looks like I am going to...

As Obama signed 23 executive orders to "control gun violence" that impact citizen rights under the Second Amendment, supporters of gun ownership held hundreds of rallies across the country this Saturday (Feb. 23) to protest these rules. The theme for many was "Day of Resistance"; however,...

Never let it be said that Tea Party people were not game for a challenge. The American Thinker contributor Tara Servatius reported on a poll that shows Hispanic Americans are fans of Big Government: What drives Hispanic voters is simple, and it was captured with shocking clarity...

As my San Diego compatriot Dean Riehm notes: Russia has become to meteors/meteorites what trailer parks have been to tornadoes. Yesterday, a space object thought to be a "tiny asteroid" exploded over the Russia. The ensuing shock wave shattered glass throughout the region, injuring over 1000...

When Professor Jacobson reported that cancer funding research had been used to smear the Tea Party, calling it a tool of a big tobacco and the Koch brothers based on plans hatched over a decade ago, I had one thought: Anti-Tea Party advocates suffer from the single...

Tuesday night, Rand Paul (the freshman senator from Kentucky) gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union address, calling for cutting corporate taxes in half and slashing trillions in federal spending. Paul has been very busy.  Today, the Washington Times reports that Paul...

I talked to my mother last night, a long-time Democrat who voted for Obama this November. She said that she had tuned out the State of the Union address to pour a class of wine, because it was more of the "same, nasty rhetoric" she heard...

I became a Catholic in 2010, in part as a response to my involvement in the Tea Party movement. So, I was very excited about the news that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning: He will be the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to resign in...

People have been very interested in recent reports that highlight studies confirming the theory that an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs: [A]n international team of researchers, using the most precise dating methods currently available, have determined that while the asteroid impact wasn’t the only thing...

We recently posted a story on changing the direction of political dialog in this country, which asked the following question: How do we get a foothold for conservative ideas in the public schools, and how do we expand that foothold over time? An Idaho lawmaker may be...

My son just asked for the definition of a "Sisyphean task", as he is studying Greek myths in school. My answer: Trying to address the most liberty-crushing item from the Obama Administration. For example, I caught a Twitter hashtag that highlights a new concern about this administration's...

Professor Jacobson just analyzed how the left effectively uses web-pages to deride conservatives and their policies, and observes it is worthwhile looking at the integration of culture and politics. Anne Sorock offered a hands-on approach to change the direction of local media. And I stress the importance...

UPDATED! On my own blog, Temple of Mut, I post news about discoveries related to ancient Egypt. I also keep up with the news about modern Egypt, and today the country is being overrun with boobs.  The first example is Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, who...

Agenda-driven journalism is poised to pit two Democratic constituencies against each other in my home state of California. Americans are becoming aware that there is an "oil boom" in this country, courtesy of the technology behind the fracking of oil shale.  California's Monterey Shale Formation, which...