The riots themselves are not hard to fathom; several French commentators have said the only mystery is why they didn’t break out 15 years earlier. If you corral hundreds of thousands of the poor and disadvantaged into sink estates and…

On a Beverly Hills stage Tuesday night next to his wife, Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger pledged "to find common ground" with his Democratic adversaries in Sacramento. He should have done that months ago. Now he’s road kill and the Dems don’t…

Tookie Williams will be executed on Dec. 13 unless Schwarzenegger commutes the sentence (not likely.) Williams is an ex-Crip who renounced the gang life. He’s worked tirelessly while in prison to steer children from the gang life. He’s been nominated…

San Francisco voters ban military recruiters in schools

It’s official. All the propositions lost. Arnold has no mojo left, he lost big time. He forced this election, it cost the state millions of dollars, and the voters soundly rejected all the measures and him with it. And hopefully…

Prop 75 just went into the NO column. That means ALL the California propositions are now losing. 75, the anti-union measure, started out way down, like 42 no to 58 yes, but this reversed as votes from the Big Dog…

France declared a state of emergency Tuesday to quell the country’s worst unrest since the student uprisings of 1968 that toppled a government. Rioters ignored the extraordinary security measures, which began Wednesday, as they looted and burned two superstores, set…