By John M. Rogitz

California has some of the most fertile, productive soil in the entire country. We are the largest producer of domestic agricultural products and we’re also the leading exporter. Needless to say, that accounts for a significant portion of California’s job market. Yet right now California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley, where all those lovely products are grown, is being parched to death by environmentalist efforts to save the California delta smelt population, a fish no more than 2 inches long.

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By John M. Rogitz

We were right to go in to Iraq and dethrone Saddam Hussein. President Bush was right, Cheney was right, Rove was right, the right was right. You might be wondering what this has to do with today. Two words: North Korea.

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This quote by Reagan is timeless. Think about it in terms of American military action in the Middle East and radial Islam’s yearning to spread their religion by the sword while killing all the infidels.

“The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.”

By John M. Rogitz

Is anyone else getting tired of these protests against Proposition 8? Look, lots of people were on the losing side of that democratic battle, just as I was on the losing side of the presidential election. My own libertarian inclinations aside, it’s time California started accepting that Prop 8 is here to stay.

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