Author: Leslie Eastman

The Obama Administration puts up a forest of shiny objects that can make important developments hard to see. While  Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney stresses over who-did-what on the cancellation of White House tours, conservative firebrand Tammy Bruce has been sounding the alarm on some developments...

I came back from an appointment to find that white smoke was wafting from the Vatican Chimney. From the Globe and Mail: Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be known as Francis. At 7:07 p.m., local time, white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a new...

As a Democrat, I am often grateful to the support shown to me by Republican friends. However, California's new Republican Party chairman may have taken support for a Democrat one step too far for the comfort of his party's membership and the GOP contender in a...

Nancy Pelosi was wrong:  Even after passing the bill, no one could have possibly known what was in it! That's because America's finest bureaucrats are creating a galaxy of amazing new rules to implement provisions of the "Affordable Care Act".  In the traditional Friday-night document dump...

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...

It turns out that when Democrat Bob Filner left the U.S. Congress after being elected San Diego's new mayor, he brought Washington, D.C.'s sense of teamwork and fair play with him. The San Diego Twitter stream was busy with events associated with the mayor crashing the...

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,...

... who sits "with your Apple laptop and your fuzzy slippers"...

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...