Pete Wilson

Citizens of the Colorado town of Loveland are upset this week over the display of a work of art that they claim shows Jesus Christ involved in an act of oral sex. Enrique Chagoya's "The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals"......

I wrote earlier this week that Meg Whitman's campaign was doing a terrible job of finding a way out of its immigration flap. Perhaps I misjudged Whitman's stay-the-course strategy as incompetence when it was in fact strategic self-restraint, as if......

These last weeks of politics have been wild, funny and some of the finest in recent history. Almost all of the madness was caught on video. Let's look back and enjoy some of the weirdest moments in the political races......

So Meg Whitman, who went down to defeat in November's gubernatorial election, has returned to public view with this message: "The immigration rhetoric the Republican Party uses is not helpful." What's more, she said Tuesday at a George W. Bush......

Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown met for their third and final debate Tuesday evening, a contentious exchange that touched on tabloid-esque controversies that have dominated the campaign recently, as well as on issues of how each would...

Wedge issues are the rhetorical enablers of the bitterly partisan politics that have disfigured our national conversation in recent years. They're the controversial questions on which significant numbers of voters hold views that admit no compromise or...

NEWPORT BEACH — The GOP elephant looks like it might stomp on former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo's head. That symbolism would be simple enough, but Ed Reno's latest mailer asks reader to make a couple leaps. If elected to Newport Beach City...

The Glendale Noon Rotary Club was treated to a very informative and inspirational business speech three weeks ago by John Kabateck the executive director, California, of the National Federation of Independent Business. Kabateck returned to his hometown of...

"The Gipper's" reputation, apparently, wasn't good enough. At least not to convince Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) that he should exclusively endorse a fellow Ronald Reagan devotee in this fall's Newport Beach City Council election. In April,...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on national television today he would not be running for California governor in 2010 after flirting with a bid for higher office for months. Elected to a second, four-year term in March, the mayor told...

Over the years, California legislators have repeatedly meddled with the independence of the University of California. That doesn't make California unique, but in a system dedicated to the highest academic and scholarly standards, the meddling can badly...