Opinion Pieces

  • My Health-Care Alternative for the Old and Poor
    Jun 22, 2012  - It's time to move beyond ObamaCare. Whether it is struck down by the Supreme Court, defunded by Congress, or simply collapses from its unsustainable costs and the impossibly complicated bureaucracy it seeks to impose, ObamaCare won't work. It will depress the economy, increase the national debt, dis... More
  • Ending California's man-made drought
    Mar 6, 2012  - From the San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Pages The man-made drought in California is no secret. Burdensome environmental regulations restricting water pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have contributed to hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland going fallow in recent yea... More
  • Just the Facts (by Rep. McClintock)
    Feb 24, 2012  - I have submitted a shorter letter responding to the Chronicle’s front-page article by Carolyn Lochhead (“Central Valley reps bill would upend water rights,” February 17, 2012), but believe the inaccuracies and omissions in it are so stark that it deserves a more detailed reply. “Representatives from... More
  • Obama Interior Department rife with zealots
    Sep 26, 2011  - The Department of Interior, established in 1849, once led the development of the world’s most ambitious infrastructure projects. Those projects included such visionary work as the construction of Hoover Dam, which remains one of the world’s largest structures, as well as the Central Valley Project,... More
  • HR 1837 offers more balanced approach to water
    Jul 7, 2011  - Over the past several weeks, there has been a steady rant against the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, including an editorial by this paper ("Wading into the water war," June 19). Unfortunately these opinions disregard basic facts and are helping to perpetuate the phony and disingenuous arg... More
  • A roadmap for America's energy future
    Apr 18, 2011  - High energy prices are un-American. Our country has been blessed with a great abundance of natural resources and a unique ability to innovate. Taken together, the American people can deliver what our government has promised for decades but failed to deliver: energy independence. The path forward is ... More
  • State's regulators letting Delta water go to waste
    Mar 6, 2011  - In its editorial criticizing House Republicans, The Bee recently suggested that current management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is without controversy or is somehow the result of a collective best practice. However, existing California water policy is neither "nuanced" nor "balanced," nor is ... More
  • A Roadmap for America's Energy Future
    Mar 3, 2011  - As tension and uncertainty in the Middle East rises and revolutions spread in the Middle East and North Africa, Americans are once again confronting the financial and national security consequences of our dependence on foreign oil. Over the years, the American people have been promised “energy inde... More
  • GOP Energy Plan Takes Shape
    Jan 27, 2011  - An emerging group of Republican leaders in Congress are putting together the elements of a new energy plan to help define a new national energy policy. Rep. Devin Nunes is emerging as one of the key architects of new Republican thinking on energy. His energy plan is getting attention, having been pr... More