A recent column in this space was headlined “Inflation, the cruelest tax.” Well, if inflation is the cruelest tax, then inflation’s impact on gasoline, combined with the nation’s highest tax, can only be characterized as “cruel and unusual punishment.” In addition to inflation and taxes, other government policies related to petroleum are counterproductive. These include…
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NEW YORK — Trevor Zegras acknowledged the strangeness of it all, lining up Saturday against his good friend Jack Hughes when the Ducks faced the New Jersey Devils in Newark, N.J. Zegras also acknowledged the fear of it, too, whenever he was on the ice at the same time as Hughes. “It was definitely weird…
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Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” he said on his official Twitter account. Obama also said that his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, has tested negative. “Michelle and I are grateful to be…
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Q: I just had my slope stripped — Brazilian peppers had invaded, and they choke out everything. It is a good-sized slope and I am looking for economical and maintenance free ground cover/bushes to cover it. I have quite a few jade plants partially on it, great plants, and some aloe vera as well. What…
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From the time the gates opened for the first Boots in the Park at SilverLakes in Norco on Saturday, fans were ready to party. The weather was warm and breezy, and there was fried food and barbecue, cold drinks, country music and good vibes all around. Attendees who showed up early played games on the…
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Famed in the current political moment for uniformly progressive legislation and the Assembly and state Senate members who write those laws, California was very much not always in the liberal vanguard. We weren’t just the state that produced in one case and nurtured in the other Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As late as 1964,…
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Gavin Newsom was always going to win re-election this year by a big margin. It doesn’t matter how incompetent he is; it comes down to basic math. Nearly half of the state’s voters are registered Democrats, around a quarter are Republican. Registered whatevers tend to vote for their party, because that’s how it goes. Throw…
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On a night that scorers stepped aside, Kyle Lowry stepped up. More, the Miami Heat veteran point guard said, soon will be on the way. Having attempted 10 total shots in his previous three appearances after missing a week due to family reasons, Lowry closed 4 of 12 from the field in Saturday night’s 113-104…
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Those calling for news reporters to abandon objectivity might not be a majority, but they are persistent. On Twitter this week I saw someone questioning why the news media would cover a trucker convoy causing traffic problems around the country as a means of protesting COVID-19 restrictions. Another responded condescendingly that it was due to…
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Markieff Morris has moved on. That was among the first things the veteran Miami Heat forward wanted to make clear after returning Saturday night from a four-month absence due to a neck injury sustained in his Nov. 8 run-in with Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. Closure, he said, came with the 17 minutes he played…
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