ICYMI: Grand Jury Decides Not To Charge Officers In Tamir Rice Shooting. Also, Rice Wasn’t Open Carrying

In 1964, Senator Barry Goldwater lost the presidential election to Lyndon Johnson. Since then, Barry Goldwater's loss has become a talking point about why conservatives cannot win. Even now, both the media and Republican establishment are saying the most conservative candidates in the 2016 field cannot win because of Barry Goldwater's example.

California is facing a years-long water crisis precipitated by intense bouts of drought. Mandatory water rationing, water fixture replacement, and irrigation restrictions are some of the emergency measures that Californians have had to bear. The solutions are drowning in red tape.

California has given us three new truths about government.

There are more than 40 million voters who were not on the rolls the last time Bill Clinton ran for office. As hard as it may be to believe, Bill has not had his name on a ballot for 20 years and hasnt been a direct factor in a general election race since the American people rejected his vice-president in 2000.

Three NFL teams claim they want to come to Los Angeles, the nation's second-biggest market.

Taking stock is a tradition observed by Jews at Yom Kippur and others who examine their lives at the end of a year and vow to improve in the new year.

I've always loved the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve. The celebration of Christ's birth has just occurred -- renewing me spiritually and reminding me that the gift of salvation is due to God's grace -- not anything that I have accomplished.

Beware! The privatization monster is on the loose again.

In 2013, Americans learned about a new epidemic -- affluenza.

The experts, ranging from the political to the financial, blew 2015 -- big-time. The political pundits had the wrong candidates leading the GOP race for president. The Wall Street analysts had the market pegged to rise mightily.

To those of us who have followed the ongoing Clinton Saga, which now reaches back almost 25 years, Hillary Rodham Clinton's computer server promises to become as historic as Monica Lewinsky's stained dress.

For my last column in 2015, I want to take a break from politics. Politics often make people feel bitter, hopeless and cynical.

F.A. Hayek said in his 1960 essay, Why I Am Not A Conservative, that because conservatism tends to resist change, by its very nature, it cannot offer an alternative to the direction in which we are moving.

As 2015 comes to a close, the biggest story of the year is unquestionably the meteoric rise and mystifying (to some) staying power of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

For many years, we have bestowed a Ringside Politics Turkey of the Year Award to a worthy celebrity or politician. This designation is anything but flattering, so last year we decided to start a positive award category by recognizing an annual Champion of the Year.

In the final weeks of 2015, media outlets have begun running their annual "top stories of the year" segments, highlighting the most notable and/or newsworthy stories of the past year.

On Christmas Day -- three weeks after the son of a Pakistani immigrant and his Pakistani immigrant bride murdered 14 people in San Bernardino, California -- The New York Times told the heartwarming story of "Kamal," a Syrian refugee who resettled into Houston, Texas, earlier this year and immediately started shopping at Walmart.

Remember 5-year-old Sophie Cruz?

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks.