In each of the four cities in The Tribune’s coverage area – Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westminster – a time of reckoning is approaching. For Stanton, there’s a special election […]
Just not in my backyard … probably
Trump should want quick impeachment
The Ukraine story hasn’t been good for President Donald Trump, and there’s only one way out – to get impeached, and the sooner, the better. Trump obviously hates the idea of being […]
Franken: Donald Trump’s defiant strategy
It’s really difficult to tell because his hands are so small, but it looks for all the world that President Donald Trump has an extended middle finger raised at, well, all the […]
Retorts: Truth, lies and other wisdom
At my deceptively youthful age, I have collected a brain-full of witticisms, wisdom, old wives tales, brilliance, foolishness and head-scratching memories I have still yet to parse. You’ve seen these paperback books […]
Foolish campaign against “endless wars”
Barack Obama and Donald Trump are diametrically opposed figures, representing the categorical rejection of the other for his supporters, yet they share significant foreign-policy DNA. They both defined themselves in opposition to […]
Can Democrats pull off an impeachment?
Vladimir Putin is not a Facebook friend of mine – that I know of, anyway. He could be, perhaps registered under an alias put out by the Moscow Troll Department, but to […]
Five hundred thousand can’t be wrong
If we had a dollar for every click …. We’d just like to point out that as of last week, The Orange County Tribune’s website – http://www.orangcountytribune.com – has attracted over a […]
Is America not ready for democracy?
In his “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln described a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The problem for any democracy is that those people can make a mistake – […]
Retorts: Want to connect? Tell a story
Lining one wall of my home office, from floor to ceiling, is a collection of many of my best friends. No, it’s not photographic mementos from my past; it’s the hundreds […]
Lowry: The problems with impeachment
Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. […]
