Daily Republic correspondent FAIRFIELD — Walking into the Fairfield Center for Creative Arts to see Solano Repertory Company’s production of “Into the Woods“ was akin to walking into a fairy tale. The stage was covered top to bottom, and left to right, by a huge mural of a village and lush vegetation was “growing†all [...]
Change has come to America and America is afraid. New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently wrote about how changing demographics really fuel Tea Party rage. And while he loses credibility when he compares bricks thrown through Democratic offices with Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany, his overall thesis hits the mark. It’s not [...]
The Republican senator from South Carolina has been working with New York Democrat Chuck Schumer to achieve what Graham calls the “tough heavy lift†of immigration reform. The two have spelled out the basic framework of the legislation, which is yet to be introduced but enjoys the support of the White House. So a lot [...]
The papers, TV news, and wherever we go to learn what is happening with the economy today are filled with threats to cut back things which our taxes should still be able to provide. But the value of the average person’s life, our children’s education, elder health, and many other things we had for so [...]
At the 2008 Republican Convention, the delegates enthusiastically chanted “Drill, baby, drill!†in response to Sarah Palin’s equally enthusiastic call for greater offshore oil and gas production. The implication was that Barack Obama was opposed — or at least lukewarm — to offshore drilling. He was in fact in favor of it but drilling was [...]
It appears that we who pay, and have been paying personally for health care, will have a huge increase in our cost of medical care in the future. As an example, I currently pay $96.50 a month for Medicare, and $72 a month for a Kaiser supplement. My co-pay for drugs doubled when the last [...]
The Moscow subway system is, after Tokyo’s, the world’s second-busiest, carrying over 7 million passengers on an average workday. With 180 stations to choose from on Monday, suicide bombers picked two of the busiest stations, both of them perhaps for symbolic reasons — one under the headquarters of the feared Federal Security Service, the other [...]
Once again, the self-destructive cry is heard from some parts of California, just has it is been every 10 years when the Census is about to begin: “Don’t count illegal immigrants.†The argument for not counting illegals is simple, well expressed the other day by Ken Calvert, a Republican congressman from the Riverside County city [...]
AP Auto Writer DETROIT — An incentives war touched off by Toyota boosted sales at most major automakers last month. GM reported a 21 percent jump in new vehicles sales today, while Ford’s climbed nearly 40 percent over last March, when economic uncertainty and rising unemployment kept buyers from showrooms. Sales at Hyundai and Subaru [...]
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