Alexander Pherson

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• State, US have same problems

  March 4, 2010 at midnight

  Barack Obama may be the best president of the United States that California could have ever asked for.

• Public forgives Woods too easily

  Feb. 25, 2010 at 12:03 a.m.

  Popular culture has a tendency to reduce to sanctimoniousness anyone who expresses disgust or outrage at the sexual scandals of public officials. Such was the reaction to people who refused to grant summary forgiveness to former President Bill Clinton after he admitted to improprieties with Monica Lewinsky.

• Global warming losing steam

  Feb. 18, 2010 at 12:53 a.m.

  Last week’s ubiquitous snowstorms and continued revelations about erroneous predictions by climatologists have aided the skeptics of global warming.

• Obama favors blame game, not bipartisanship

  Feb. 11, 2010 at midnight

  Given his inability to conjure up electoral victories for Democrats in the last few state races, many political prognosticators say that President Barack Obama will be forced to move “toward the center” if he or his party are to have any chance of maintaining their grip on power.

• Obama rapidly losing power

  Jan. 28, 2010 at 12:15 a.m.

  Last week, Republican Scott Brown’s decisive win in liberal territory (Massachusetts) added another impediment to the would-be political machine that Democrats have been trying to build.

• Obama believers losing faith

  Jan. 21, 2010 at midnight

  With his mix of inexperience and political “smarts,” candidate Barack Obama challenged Americans to do something that has become increasingly taboo in our secular world: have faith (in him, that is).

• Health care proposal unbelievable

  Jan. 14, 2010 at midnight

  Of all the assertions made about the government’s proposals for health care, the hardest to believe is that a dramatic “overhaul” of the system would improve the economic conditions in the country.

• Flawed health bill wins by foul play

  Jan. 7, 2010 at midnight

  While most Americans sought seclusion from partisan squabbles, Senate Democrats used the distraction of the holidays to ratchet up their relentless pursuit of a health care bill.

• Don’t ignore facts in Fort Hood case to be politically correct

  Nov. 18, 2009 at 11:51 p.m.

  In the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre, a line is taking shape: Whatever possessed the shooter to kill 13 Americans, it is beneath our dignity to discuss the Muslim connection to the suspect.

• As states turn to Republican governors, Obama’s election seems like less of a victory

  Nov. 12, 2009 at 7:19 a.m.

  When President Barack Obama was whisked into the White House on the strength of 9.5 million votes more than his nearest rival, Democrats happily pronounced the death of the Republican Party and the birth of a new age of liberalism.