• Plan Will Save Free Market, Not Destroy It - Investor's Business Daily
    Oct 3, 2008  - This free-market, Milton Friedman devotee, conservative Republican congressman will be voting strongly in favor of the $700 billion bailout for Wall Street. What, you ask? Has the California sun fried my last brain cell? No. I will vote for this bill because it will likely not cost anything, is n... More
  • The Pelosi Premium, Not Worth it
    Jul 11, 2008  - Almost two years ago to the day, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), announced that she had a “commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices." With national gas prices hovering precariously close to $4 a gallon, I can’t help but wonder when this commonsense plan is going to sh... More
  • Rep. Campbell: Put brakes to out-of-control spending - OC Register
    Jul 2, 2008  - The federal budget deficit for 2008 will almost certainly be the largest deficit in history. That's pretty big news. You would think that would be splashed all over everywhere. But it's not. Why not? Because a coalition of Democrat and Republican spenders and earmarkers don't want you to interfere ... More
  • EPA is right and California is Wrong
    Jan 4, 2008  - Recently, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied the State of California's request for a waiver of existing law so that California could adopt it's own regulations for the fuel economy (greenhouse gases) of cars and light trucks. Note that California was asking to be exempted from ... More
  • Embracing Reagan's Legacy
    Nov 14, 2007  - It's been nearly 20 years since Ronald Reagan left the presidency. Yet, even people who don't remember his presidency (or his governorship in California) as I do, have positive views of his legacy. Yes, he lowered taxes and ended the Cold War. But we remember him for even more than that. He stood un... More
  • The Orange Grove: Another year of earmark abuses -- OCRegister
    Nov 12, 2007  - There are still a number of members of Congress who believe that the "earmarking" process, under which we direct billions of dollars of your money to specific pet projects of ours, is fine and needs no reform. Those members of Congress are wrong. They are defending the indefensible. Sometimes they... More
  • Orange County: Sun, Surf...Slot Machines?-- FlashReport
    Oct 11, 2007  - The National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) estimates that, under the Indian Gaming Regulation Act (IGRA), there are approximately 400 Indian casinos in operation today. These casinos are owned by roughly 220 federally recognized tribes and, in 2006, they generated over $25 billion in revenue, of w... More
  • SCHIP & Subprime -- The California Republic
    Oct 11, 2007  - You probably hadn't heard the acronym SCHIP before. But you are certainly hearing plenty now. SCHIP stands for State Children's Health Insurance Program. This program was started back under the Republican-controlled Congress in 1997 to give federal matching money to states to assist in providing hea... More
  • Global warming blasphemy
    Sep 17, 2007  - Global warming has become a religion for many back here in Washington. To this crowd, there are no greater or more urgent problems anywhere. They worship at the alter of carbon generation and reduction. To them, the great crime of Al Gore Jr. was that at 100 mph, the electric engine on his Prius was... More
  • Young Hero will not be Forgotten -- OC Metro
    Mar 15, 2007  - On Jan. 15 Lt. Mark J. Daily was killed while fighting in Iraq. He lived in the congressional district I am privileged to represent. He lived in Irvine where my family lives. I never met Mark Daily. But I know him. And so do you. How could any of us know someone we never met? Let me explain. There... More