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An Open Letter to Candidate Sonja Shaw, Educational Reformer

When Zebra's Cry

An Open Letter to Congressman Salud Carbajal

Iran Lies! A Hunter’s Demise! Vatican Spies! Billionaires Fantasize!

Fixing What Was Never Broken

California Corruption: Ideological and Otherwise

A $150 Million Bike Path

The Answer is Not Blowing in the Wind

PURELY POLITICAL Requirements

Would-Be Governor Steyer Pitches Santa Barbara Voters

Mr. Smith Goes to … Taiwan

They’ve Illegally Struck My Name Off The Ballot

Government Imposed Political and Economic Self-Immolation

Oh, Woe Is He, the Swalwell Sob Story

AI and Copyrighted Visual Works

The Twilight Zone Revisited

Saying Good-Bye to America’s Slimiest Politician

Swalwell Blowout! Hunter Biden Bailout! BM Payout! Route 66 Burnout!

Time Again To Pay Your “Fair” Share

The Sad State of Gavin Newsom’s California

Elijah Mack Wants To Be Your Second District County Supervisor

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

The Democrats’ Real Constituency

Saving Santa Barbara

Club of Rome Red-faced! Tiger Woods Debased! California Waste! French Masons Disgraced!

The Latest Weight-Loss “Therapy”

The No Kings Movement, Then and Now

King of the Jews

The “Good News” about Easter

A Farewell to Ray Winn

Indictments and Guilty Pleas Crowd Legal Calendar

Ayatollahs Cry, Demons Fly, and No Mo’ Hailing Cesar Chavez High

Weak Turnout for a Weak “Cause”

Gavin Newsom is a Pedophile’s Best Friend

When Leadership Forgets Who It Serves

Suburban Soliloquy

An Early Celebration of the Real Earth Day

They’re Trying to Kick Me Off the Ballot—Again

AI and Copyrighted Written Words

Remembering the Way State Street Was

The Collateral Damage from the War on Oil

Americans Could – and Should – Return to Farming

Different Worlds, Same Country

Time for Fresh Leadership

Left-Wing Venom from Santa Barbara’s Nick and Jerry Show

Nature’s Perpetual Oil Spill : Sable Offshore to the Rescue

Saint Patrick and the Relaunch of Western Civilization

Apocalypse? It’s a Good Thing!

The American Corruption Food Court

Purely Political: Bob Smith (Part II)

It’s a Matter of Survival

A Tale of Two Pumps and the Policies Driving the Divide

Ayatollah Cries ‘Death To America!’ As Mullah Meets His Maker

Parents or Politicians?

Sometimes War is the Best Way to Give Peace a Chance

The Permanent Process

A Call for Fiscal Responsibility

Two More “Thumbs Up” for Bob Smith for Congress

State of the Union Address in 2026

A Satirical Look at the News: Sharp, Skeptical, and Occasionally Ruthless

It’s All Downhill From Here

Engineered Addiction to a Psychological Narcotic

Validating Visas

Note to Bureaucrats: Stop Wasting Our Money

Pot Smoking, Beer Drinking Punk Gets Old

Communist-Inspired Violence Alive and Well in Santa Barbara

Cali Curtails Community Security! The Aliens are Coming! Eat More Beans!META Mischief! Morocco is Murdering Mutts

SBCC’s $20 Million Misadventure

Gavin Newsom’s Hobson’s Choice

The Fuse We Didn’t Blow Out

Is LA’s Democrat Socialist “extreme plan” coming to Santa Barbara?

Epstein and His Political Friends

Santa Barbara: I’ve Found a Councilman to Vote For

China’s Cali Harvest! Eyes Wide Open! Royal Betrayal! Putin’s Last Supper!

“Little Marco” Has Come a Long, Long Way

Why Government Keeps Running Out of Your Money

Why Government Programs Avoid Success & Survive Failure

Vehicle Mileage Tax: A Financial Burden We Can’t Afford

Letters to the Editor

Critical Thinking Is the Only Thing That’s Been Stolen

The Grand Scheme of the Left

Celebrating the Olympiad Revival

Help Stop the Proposed CA Tax on Driving

Tax on the Assets of Billionaires

A Commander Steps Forward: Meet Bob Smith, a New Voice for the Central Coast

The Joys [and Responsibility] of a Right to Carry Permit

Local Media Reverberations on Immigration

Kristy’s Demise! Ashes & Lies! Epstein’s Reprise! A Shakespearian Surprise!

Santa Barbara County’s Out-of-Control Spending Spills Over

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste!

Contemplating Trump Derangement Syndrome

Ten Years of City Rate Increases and Rent Caps That Ignore Them

Trump in Davos

Letters to the Editor

Hats off to Melania for Magical Style and Substance

How Property Owners Exit or Get Trapped Inside a Rigged System

Sulphur Dioxide and California’s Medieval Redux

Energy Fantasy Meets National Security Reality

When Deferred Maintenance Is a Crime — Unless City Hall Does It

Putin and Xi Plan to Outlast Trump

Allan Hancock Learing Center

A Search for Sanctuary

The Insular City Off the Coast of America

The ICE Martyr and Other Weapons of Mass Effect

Modern Education’s Terminal Illness Examined

Why Santa Barbara’s Rents Spiked — and Who Is Responsible

The Road Not Taken

Need For a Non-Democrat City Council

Santa Barbara’s Cost-Recovery Double Standard Comes to a Vote Tonight

Winning The Optics War with Agitprop

Ché Carbajal and the Monroe Doctrine

What's behind Santa Barbara's "Emergency" Rent Freeze ?

When Cost Recovery Applies to City Hall but Not to Housing Providers

Letters to the Editor

It’s New Year’s Resolution Time

The Nicolas Maduro Affair

Dear Mr. President

Minnesota’s Tim Walz and the Somalians are Rank Amateurs

Close Encounters of the Illegal Kind

A Pause at City Hall—and a Spotlight on What Makes Us, Us