I have to admit. I agree with Governor Schwarzenegger that fighting over gay marriage is a waste of time. The whole idea is foolish. There is no such thing as a marriage between two men or two women. You can call it many things, but marriage it is not. The whole purpose of a family is to raise children, and, the studies prove (as confirmed by 5000 years of accumulated human experience), children are best raised in a family consisting of a married man and woman. It doesn’t always work out that every child gets that chance, but the fact that it doesn’t work out for everybody doesn’t mean that government should go out of its way to screw things up.

The whole concept of "gay" marriage is nonsensical. Our homosexual friends want the "benefits" of marriage, they say, so that their relationship can be co-equal to a heterosexual relationship. However, society has granted the benefits it has to married couples because it wants to encourage a strong marital relationship for the purpose of providing a stable home for children, not for the purpose of encouraging people to engage in sex. Sex is, indeed, a part of life (a… Read More

This spot will be up on cable in AD 64 in a few days.

It discusses the public record of Assembly candidate Brian Nestande.

I am working for businesswoman Kelly McCarty.… Read More

Yesterday on party-line votes, once again Democrats killed reasonable efforts to explore and expanded use of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Ignoring the proven safety statistics of modern Nuclear Power Plants, and in blatant disregard for their own global warming hysteria, turned down a massive power alternative that has a significantly lower impact on the amount of man-made CFC’s that are emitted into the atmosphere.

Last week I was chatting with Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been the champion in the legislature for looking at the expansion of the use of nuclear power in California. He told me about how he had been tapped by Boalt School of Law at Cal to prepare a "scholarly paper" on this whole topic. He said that it would soon be published, and I asked him to let me know once it was, so I could share it with FR readers. Well, the piece is now online! Below is a brief introduction to the piece penned by DeVore, with the a link over to his article, "Relative Risk: Global Warming and Imported Fossil Fuels vs. Nuclear Power."… Read More

Yesterday on party-line votes, once again Democrats killed reasonable efforts to explore and expanded use of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Ignoring the proven safety statistics of modern Nuclear Power Plants, and in blatant disregard for their own global warming hysteria, turned down a massive power alternative that has a significantly lower impact on the amount of man-made CFC’s that are emitted into the atmosphere.

Last week I was chatting with Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been the champion in the legislature for looking at the expansion of the use of nuclear power in California. He told me about how he had been tapped by Boalt School of Law at Cal to prepare a "scholarly paper" on this whole topic. He said that it would soon be published, and I asked him to let me know once it was, so I could share it with FR readers. Well, the piece is now online! Below is a brief introduction to the piece penned by DeVore, with the a link over to his article, "Relative Risk: Global Warming and Imported Fossil Fuels vs. Nuclear Power."… Read More

This just in. The memo from pollster John Nienstedt regarding a recent City Attorney race survey says it all in the headline: "It is looking more like a two-horse race between City Attorney Mike Aguirre and Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith."

Once again, the bottom line is simple. For those not happy with Democrat Aguirre, well, fellow Dem Scott Peters and Republican Brian Maienschein are serving an opposite purpose, if they are not from an alternate universe. The GOP-endorsed Goldsmith is the contender with viability, not to mention a lack of baggage from the San Diego pension-debacle.

Some excerpts:

Competitive Edge Research & Communication, Inc., conducted a poll on behalf of the Republican Party of San Diego County among 506 randomly selected likely June voters residing in the City of San Diego. The poll was fielded March 20-24 (excluding Easter Sunday). The data was appropriately weighted to reflect known parameters within the likely June electorate. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.4%.

The results demonstrate that San Diego Superior Court Judge Jan Goldsmith continues to be City Attorney Mike… Read More

Today Governor Schwarzenegger continued on his "I don’t mean what I say" Tour by announcing to a national meeting of the Log Cabin (Gay) Republicans that he would oppose a ballot measure that may appear on the November ballot to place into the State Constitution a definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.

This from the Governor who has vetoed (twice) legislation to sanction homosexual marriage in California.

At best, we have another "off the cuff" remark from the Governor that his staff will have to "spin back into the bottle" or at the worst, you can add another log to the "what I said on the campaign trail doesn’t matter now" fire.

I’ve reached out to his Communications Director for some clarification, but he’s been silent (for the whole ten minutes since I e-mailed him)…

Oh, ironically, Schwarzenegger was at the event representing Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain. A few weeks ago McCain stated publicly that he supports the initiative to ban gay marriage. I’m sure that McCain appreciated this "gift" from Arnold…… Read More

For weeks we have been watching the anticipation build up in advance of the arrival of the Olympic Torch to San Francisco on its worldwide journey to culminate at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Let me start by saying that I thought it was a remarkably poor decision by the International Olympic Organizing Committee (IOOC) to put the 2008 Summer Games in China, whether because of the trampling of the rights of the people of Tibet, or for that matter, the trampling of the rights of billions — the Chinese people. It also, frankly, seemed to be a bone-headed choice to run the torch through San Francisco, perhaps the least patriotic city in our nation. That said, with the torch coming, and the political madness coming to a crescendo, all eyes were on yesterday’s big run.

Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to do a "last minute switcharoo" while many thousands gathered along the advertised torch route, many to protest China, and presumably many who just wanted to see a little history jog past their front door. Newsom quietly and quickly instead had the torch route diverted across town, miles from the original route, for what we even-then a shortened… Read More

From today’s WSJ Political Diary E-mail:

Joe Shell, RIP

California conservatives lost a political hero last Monday with the death of Joe Shell at age 89. The former University of Southern California football hero went on to a successful career in the oil industry and in 1952 was elected to the state assembly, where he rose to become GOP leader.

But the old gridiron star’s finest hour came in 1962, when he decided that the Republican Party should not accept Richard Nixon’s decision to move back west to run for California governor after his presidential loss to John F. Kennedy. "I never trusted Nixon either to be a conservative or to be honest," he once told… Read More