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Harrop: Sorry, haters. California is doing just fine

There's a neurotic need in the right-leaning media to declare that California is going down. The future belongs to Texas and Florida, where "woke" is a discouraging word — and climate change is somebody else's problem, if it is a problem. California has lost population in each of the last ...

Guest opinion: On calendars – All is folly

Was Dec. 21, 2012, the end of days? Nope. Not so much. The 13-baktun cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar ended on Dec. 21, 2012, the winter solstice. This cycle is 1,872,000 days or 5,125.366 tropical years long. (A tropical year is when the sun passes from one vernal equinox to another. It ...

Stossel: Markets and miracles

In this season of giving, I'll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe's approach doesn't include many handouts. It's mostly about encouraging people to work. "Work works!" they say. It does. Most Doe Fund workers don't go ...

Robbins: Congress prepares to investigate taxpayer subsidies of Hamas

It emerged over the weekend that the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the use of American taxpayers' dollars to fund the Murder, Inc. that is Hamas. With the revelations that billions of donor dollars that were supposed to be used for humanitarian aid for Gazans have instead ...

Erickson: Christmas perspective

Seventeen years ago this week, I started the day losing my job and ended the day looking my wife in the eyes to tell her she was going to die. Doctors thought they had found a very aggressive form of cancer in her lungs. She had, in their estimation, six months. Thankfully, before the end of ...