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Welfare budget

After decades of watching state welfare budgets increase by double-digit percentages, the economic slowdown finally hit.

Offensive speech

A few weeks after Proposition 8 was approved by California voters back in November — banning same-sex marriage there — professor John Matteson apparently assigned members of his public speaking class at Los Angeles City College to address the issue.

Home alone

Barack Obama has one word for those who didn’t get in over their heads during the recent housing boom and have paid their mortgages on time: Suckers!

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Gone to pot

Richland County, S.C., Sheriff Leon Lott said Monday he’s not going to charge Olympic-champion swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo published in a British newspaper showed the 14-time gold medalist smoking from a marijuana pipe.

OUR BLOGGERS ARE SAYING…

If you’re not checking out the local blogs on reviewjournal.com, here’s a sample of what you’ve been missing:

Congressional handiwork

In Congress’ rush to include all sorts of special-interest largess in President Obama’s economic “stimulus” boondoggle, lawmakers decided to leave out a critical amendment that would have met the bill’s stated goal of preserving jobs.

Open government?

Within a day of taking office, President Obama vowed that his administration would feature an unprecedented commitment to open government.

Santa Claus

Like children rushing from bed at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning in a frenzy of anticipation about what awaits them under the tree, Nevada politicians could barely contain their glee over the state’s haul in the federal “stimulus” package.

SAY WHAT?

“I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV. They are trying to make it out that Las Vegas has become this toxic city that you can’t even go to.”

Still on the clock

Into the great pity party for poverty-stricken Clark County schools comes this bit of sobering news: the district has been lavishing overtime pay without limitation.

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