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Debra J. Saunders is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Debra Saunders has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, and Reader's Digest. Debra Saunders is the author of the book The World According to Gore. Saunders is married to Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, author and senior fellow in bioethics at the Discovery Institute.
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 29, 2011)
"You don't normally end on a triumphant note. You enter in triumph, and you leave on tiptoe," quoth Jerry Brown at a Tuesday press conference to sum up the first year of his... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 25, 2011)
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah. My gift is a take on "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," a humble effort to localize the classic tune to the beat of San... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 22, 2011)
I first met Ron Paul in 1988 at the Beverly Hills home of Dr. Timothy Leary, the one-time "turn on, tune in, drop out" LSD guru. Leary talked to me about how he was going to... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 20, 2011)
Trent Arsenault is the Barry Bonds of sperm. The 36-year-old, Fremont man boasts that he has sired 14 babies -- with four more in the oven -- via a free sperm-donation... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 18, 2011)
"No call, no text, no update, is worth a human life," National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said in a statement explaining her panel's... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 15, 2011)
President Barack Obama injected a poison pill into his jobs/temporary tax cut bill -- a 10-year, 5 percent surtax on people who earn more than $1 million annually that was... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 13, 2011)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich believes he has invented a bold new way of running a political campaign. "I told somebody at one point, 'This is like watching... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 11, 2011)
Imagine a democracy in which key players are committed to making sure that duly enacted laws don't work. These players slow things down. They hire confederates who also want... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 08, 2011)
In his big economics speech in Osawatomie, Kan., Tuesday, President Barack Obama asserted, "This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class."
That's... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 04, 2011)
On his official website, San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi starts his list of accomplishments with this item: "Plastic Bag Ban: First-in-the-Nation ban on plastic bags... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Dec 01, 2011)
In AMC's zombie series, "The Walking Dead," tensions build between an old-fashioned veterinarian farmer, named Hershel Greene -- who thinks zombies have a disease that may be... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 29, 2011)
As a Republican congressman, Newt Gingrich filed ethics charges that led Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to resign in 1989. Later, the House elected Gingrich speaker.... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 27, 2011)
For all their whining about the "police state" and the city's failure to respect their "First Amendment rights," Occupy Oakland activists have... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 24, 2011)
For the most part, President Barack Obama has squandered his presidential pardon and commutation power.Federal mandatory minimum sentences have put small-time offenders... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 22, 2011)
A few months ago, Washington's big bad wolf was Republicans' refusal to compromise by supporting any deficit reduction plan that included tax increases. Republicans were... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 20, 2011)
President Barack Obama likes to brag that his energy secretary, Steven Chu, won a Nobel Prize in physics. You would think that means that Chu is a brainiac who makes... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 17, 2011)
Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously shared a love seat with former GOP Speaker Newt Gingrich in a 2008 ad advocating for global warming legislation.This week, they're... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 13, 2011)
The Bay Area has come down with a serious case of Protest Fatigue. The 99 percent of Northern Californians who want to go about their business are being jammed with protests... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 10, 2011)
The collapse of MF Global Holdings gives Americans yet another reason not to trust Wall Street. The firm filed for bankruptcy as federal regulators were looking for $600... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 08, 2011)
"I have great respect for each of you individually, but collectively I'm worried that you're going to fail -- fail the country," former Bill Clinton... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 06, 2011)
The morning after Occupy Oakland's midweek violent protests, the take in the Bay Area was that it was a dirty, rotten shame that a few bad-egg anarchists hijacked a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 03, 2011)
Who wants to be Paula Jones? Or Kathleen Willey or Anita Hill? All three women have accused political icons -- Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas -- of sexually... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Nov 01, 2011)
Occupy Oakland has scheduled a general strike throughout the California city for Wednesday. What does that mean? "No work. No school. Occupy everywhere," the... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 30, 2011)
One of the great things about America, President Barack Obama told students at the University of Colorado, is that no matter how humble your roots, you still have a shot at a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 27, 2011)
Republicans, beware.In 2007 and 2008, Democrats assured one another, "Anyone would be better than Bush." Now you hear the Republican version: "Anyone would be better than... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 25, 2011)
What is the purpose of high-occupancy vehicle lanes? Is it to make people who aren't in car pool lanes feel resentful? Or, as University of California, Berkeley civil... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 23, 2011)
The families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 no longer will have to watch as Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, the man who ordered the... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 20, 2011)
On Tuesday, Hamas released Gilad Schalit, 25, an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants in 2006 and held by Hamas for more than five years.
Last month,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 18, 2011)
On Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Obama administration was ending the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 16, 2011)
President Barack Obama has become quite the drug warrior.
Last month, his Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives issued a memo that stated that it is... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 13, 2011)
Before his American Jobs Act failed to pass a Senate cloture vote Tuesday, President Barack Obama made a last-ditch speech to talk up his troubled bill. Not once did Obama... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 11, 2011)
In May 2009, President Barack Obama proclaimed at the U.S. Naval Academy, "As Americans, we reject the false choice between our security and our... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 09, 2011)
As Occupy Wall Street activists clogged New York's Zuccotti Park protesting "corporate greed" and Occupy SF hit San Francisco's Financial District on Wednesday protesting... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 06, 2011)
Who poses the biggest threat to destroy Social Security? President Barack Obama.In December 2010, Obama signed a tax deal with his provision for a one-year, 2 percent Social... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 04, 2011)
Does San Francisco have a serious problem with birds flying into tall buildings? Was there a good reason the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Oct 02, 2011)
Mitt Romney is the front-runner in the GOP presidential primary. In recent debates, the former Massachusetts governor has shone while Texas Gov. Rick Perry has stumbled.... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 29, 2011)
On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan gave a talk at Stanford's Hoover Institution on what should become the Republican Party's template behind its bid to... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 27, 2011)
On Friday, Solyndra execs Brian Harrison and Bill Stover invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. They refused to answer questions at a hearing of... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 25, 2011)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad engineered the release last week of two American hikers serving eight-year prison terms on trumped-up espionage charges. He may have... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 22, 2011)
At first blush, Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware's decision to unseal videos of the federal trial challenging Proposition 8 would seem to be a victory for truth, justice... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 20, 2011)
"None of the changes I'm proposing are easy or politically convenient," President Obama noted from the Rose Garden on Monday. I've never seen a president less in a hurry to... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 17, 2011)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is getting hammered because he signed an order requiring that sixth-graders be vaccinated against the HPV virus in 2007. Perhaps the most toxic mix... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 15, 2011)
There is a line between being tolerant and having no standards whatsoever, and that's a line that San Francisco passed a long time ago. Public nudity has become the costume... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 13, 2011)
California Gov. Jerry Brown scored a victory for common sense last week when he vetoed a bill that would have imposed criminal penalties on minors -- or their parents --... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 09, 2011)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a problem. The GOP primary has turned into a two-man race between him and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, it became clear during Wednesday's... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 07, 2011)
"I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy," GOP presidential hopeful and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman recently tweeted. You've got to... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 04, 2011)
Last year, President Barack Obama came to the Bay Area to tout "green jobs" at an event at solar panel manufacturer Solyndra's Fremont plant. Quoth the president: "The true... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Sep 01, 2011)
There are two Americas. In one America, working stiffs wonder whether it makes sense for the government to pay unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. In this America, folks... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 30, 2011)
When the Scots released convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on Aug. 20, 2009 -- ostensibly because prostate cancer left him less than three months... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 28, 2011)
As Texas governor, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry has presided over 234 executions. It's a record number, which, The Washington Post reported last week, bestows on Perry... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 25, 2011)
During one of the protests that shut down Bay Area Rapid Transit this month, an anonymous protester -- hiding behind a Guy Fawkes mask -- stood with a sign that read,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 23, 2011)
President Barack Obama is in a pickle. Immigration enforcement actually is working -- or at least it was working.Under the Obama administration, the government has removed... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 16, 2011)
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is the first casualty of the Ames, Iowa, straw poll. After he came in third -- behind firebrand Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul -- he... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 14, 2011)
Castro Valley, Calif., is the spot where the East Bay meets the 1950s. In the old parts of town, there's a white rock lawn on every block. First names are big -- as in Al's... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 11, 2011)
California Gov. Jerry Brown believes that "the occupant of the White House should be the candidate who wins the most votes." On Monday, he signed a bill that... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 09, 2011)
Beware any candidate who tells you he is not a politician -- after he refers to himself in the third person. That would be San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who on occasion now... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 07, 2011)
On Wednesday, congressional Democrats were doing everything in their power not to end the legislative stalemate that shut down the Federal Aviation Administration, but to... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 04, 2011)
Republicans running in the 2012 presidential primary have a credibility gap. Only one announced candidate -- former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, and he is not exactly a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Aug 02, 2011)
White House spokesman Jay Carney called the debt ceiling deal "a victory for the American people." There are days when I feel sorry for Carney.At Monday's press briefing, CBS... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 31, 2011)
The world is becoming unbalanced. In pockets across the globe, women are giving birth to too many boys. In China, the sex ratio is 121 boys to 100 girls. In India, it's... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 28, 2011)
Here is what I do not understand: President Barack Obama is acutely aware of what will happen if Congress fails to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. As he... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 26, 2011)
In 2007, Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget proposed extending Norway's absolute maximum criminal sentence of 21 years to 30 years for genocide, crimes against... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 24, 2011)
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's bid to win the GOP presidential nomination hasn't exactly been catching on fire. Earlier this month, The New York Times ran a story about... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 21, 2011)
I've been plagued with migraines for years. So when The Daily Caller reported that GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has had severe migraines, it took my... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 19, 2011)
If Washington fails to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling and default follows, the results won't mirror that of L.A.'s "Carmageddon" weekend (when Angelenos stayed home in... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 17, 2011)
Democratic California state Sen. Loni Hancock is pushing legislation to end California's death penalty. "Capital punishment is an expensive failure and an example of the... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 14, 2011)
President Barack Obama has billed his "grand bargain" as the adult compromise because it has something for everyone to hate. The package would raise the $14... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 12, 2011)
As "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2," is set to hit theaters Friday, consider J.K. Rowling's villains.
Nasty boy Draco Malfoy's first name... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 10, 2011)
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" is the motto of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. The motto is supposed to represent the club's edict against doing business during its annual... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jul 07, 2011)
Three years ago this month, then-Sen. Barack Obama told an enthusiastic throng in Berlin, "In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 19, 2011)
America is a free country, and radio talk-show host Herman Cain is free to run for president. Even with low-name recognition, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO polls well.... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 16, 2011)
On Tuesday, the Senate voted 40-59 against an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to end the annual $6 billion (45-cents-per-gallon) tax subsidy for ethanol, as well as... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 14, 2011)
When he ran for governor, Democrat Jerry Brown made a promise to voters -- "no new taxes without voter approval." That pledge was what you would call a gimmick. Brown knew he... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 12, 2011)
"If we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely in time destroy us," President Richard Nixon told Congress in a special message on June 17, 1971, which... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 09, 2011)
There are reasons why Anthony Weiner should not resign. New York's Ninth Congressional District voters have sent him to Washington since 1998.You don't overturn the will of... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 07, 2011)
As a U.S. senator, John Edwards, a staunch defender of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, decried "a system in which huge amounts of money (continue to) flow... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 05, 2011)
On Sept. 11, 2001, when two planes plunged into the World Trade Center, Americans watched in awe as New York firefighters, police and paramedics rushed to the scene at risk... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jun 02, 2011)
In 2010, San Francisco supervisors banned Happy Meals. They showed no regard for parental choice. So it should not come as a shock that activists have managed to put a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 31, 2011)
American Taliban John Walker Lindh's father wrote a piece in the Sunday New York Times. Frank Lindh writes that his son was apprehended "unarmed and wounded." He also writes... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 29, 2011)
The good news: Last year, California's homicide rate dropped to its lowest level since 1966. Violent crimes were down from the year before.The bad news: Federal judges and... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 26, 2011)
Do Americans have the will to cut government spending in order to curb the rampant growth in government debt and liabilities? Not if the politicians they send to Washington... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 24, 2011)
The U.S. Supreme Court effectively ordered California on Monday to release 33,000 inmates over two years from an in-state prison population that numbers about 143,000.Kent... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 18, 2011)
In 2004, Maria Shriver told Vanity Fair that many people were surprised that a Kennedy clan member would marry Hollywood bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger."People at first... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 17, 2011)
Before John Ensign resigned as Nevada's junior senator on May 3, the Republican faced a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into a possibly illegal cover-up that followed... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 15, 2011)
As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin "demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders," The Atlantic's Joshua Green reports in a must-read story. "She set... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 12, 2011)
President Obama addressed an enthusiastic crowd Tuesday when he spoke in El Paso, Texas, about liberalizing federal immigration laws. Audience members exhorted the president... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 10, 2011)
At the end of his "60 Minutes" interview, President Obama said of Osama bin Laden's death, "Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 08, 2011)
How small is the California prison population likely to become if Gov. Jerry Brown has his way? In three years, California's prison population would be 20 percent... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 05, 2011)
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey explained in The San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Insight his opposition to Secure Communities, the federal program that automatically... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 03, 2011)
Nothing succeeds like success. In the years since 9/11, Americans have had to live with the fact that President George W. Bush failed to take Osama bin Laden "dead or alive"... more
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Debra J. Saunders (May 01, 2011)
On April 25, gay-rights advocates -- led by the Human Rights Campaign -- scored a victory after the HRC applied pressure on a law firm hired to defend the Defense of Marriage... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 28, 2011)
Behold the damage Donald Trump hath wrought. Every credible fact check has established that Barack Obama was born in this country. Yet on Wednesday, a reality TV show... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 26, 2011)
It wasn't that long ago when Democratic members of Congress were warning about conservative colleagues trying to insert their religion into politics by trying to cut funding... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 24, 2011)
The first tip-off that Greg Mortenson's memoir "Three Cups of Tea" has some credibility issues comes in the book's introduction. Co-author David Oliver Relin writes that as... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 21, 2011)
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Last year, when President Obama wanted to convince Americans that his policies were paying off and creating jobs, he visited a solar-panel plant in... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 19, 2011)
You know the war on drugs has gone too far when politicians keep ratcheting up restrictions on cold and allergy medications in order to prevent kitchen drug labs from buying... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 17, 2011)
President Obama well may have begun another undeclared war -- this time on states that try to enforce their own death penalty laws -- on the dubious grounds that the Food and... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 14, 2011)
Mitt Romney is too much like Barack Obama. I don't see how he'd win the 2012 GOP nod because he's got too much in common with the guy he wants to replace.Both men began a run... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 12, 2011)
If you think that academia is not the exclusive playground of the academic left, consider the fate of UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom.In 2008, Enstrom thought that a report... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 10, 2011)
President Obama has dedicated his time in office to soaking up applause and shifting blame. Last year, when Democrats owned the White House, the House and the Senate,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 05, 2011)
The New York Times reported last month that General Electric earned $14.2 billion in international profits, including, $5.1 billion in the United States. Yet GE did not pay a... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 03, 2011)
"No blood for oil" was a popular slogan chanted by the left in opposition to President George W. Bush's push to send U.S. forces into Iraq. Now that President Obama... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 31, 2011)
California Gov. Jerry Brown won the blame game and lost the budget.
Brown began with a proposal to put a measure on the ballot to extend the 2009 tax increases on income... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 29, 2011)
In Sacramento, the knee-jerk response to any crisis is to blame the Republicans. But if Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders can't cut a deal to win the two... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 27, 2011)
Every American should look at Libya through the prism of the 1988 Pan Am 103 terrorist bombing that left 270 people dead. Moammar Gadhafi -- the man whom Ronald Reagan called... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 24, 2011)
California prisons confiscated more than 10,000 cellphones last year. This year, officials at Corcoran State Prison found a cellphone with a camera in possession of convicted... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 22, 2011)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Perhaps one of the most dangerous sentences in the English language is: "It can't get any worse." Anyone who doesn't know that should not be trusted... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 19, 2011)
The White House Office of Management and Budget projects that this year, mandatory spending will exceed federal revenue. Congress could cut every dime of discretionary... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 17, 2011)
Grover Norquist, the affable head of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, doesn't want Republicans to negotiate with Democrats to solve Washington's deficit... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 15, 2011)
At Friday's news conference, President Obama tried to connect with the common man coping with rising gasoline prices. Instead, the president left little doubt that he is... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 13, 2011)
P>Forget the recent scandals involving National Public Radio. Go back to the days before NPR chief exec Vivian Schiller resigned, before a conservative prankster videotaped... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 10, 2011)
Gov. Jerry Brown's strategy to win the governor's seat has led California to this moment. March 10 was Brown's self-imposed deadline for passing his budget package and... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 08, 2011)
"America is not broke," filmmaker Michael Moore told a group protesting against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to curb public employee union collective bargaining in... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 06, 2011)
Last month, the website Politico reported that the Department of Justice dropped its representation of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his former deputy, Paul... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 03, 2011)
This week, Charlie Sheen owns network news. No wonder Americans hate the media. In a rush for ratings, TV news shows have been clamoring for sit-downs. The goal, of course,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 01, 2011)
I am reluctant to join the chorus of scolds who chide Republicans for opposing Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to put a tax-increase extension on a special election ballot in... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 27, 2011)
In 2008, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters supported Barack Obama for president. In 2009, Wisconsin's Democratic governor and Democratic Legislature passed legislation that... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 27, 2011)
In 2008, 56 percent of Wisconsin voters supported Barack Obama for president. In 2009, Wisconsin's Democratic governor and Democratic Legislature passed legislation that... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 25, 2011)
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -- Call me Sutter. Sutter Brown. California's first dog, the shortest, cuddliest member of Gov. Jerry Brown's and Anne Brown's nuclear family.You may rub... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 24, 2011)
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -- Call me Sutter. Sutter Brown. California's first dog, the shortest, cuddliest member of Gov. Jerry Brown's and Anne Brown's nuclear family.You may rub... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 20, 2011)
In 2009, when CNBC's David Faber asked former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan what lessons could be learned to prevent another great financial meltdown in the wake of... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 17, 2011)
P>My first reaction to stories about the Public Policy Polling survey that found that 51 percent of GOP primary voters believe President Obama was not born in the United... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 15, 2011)
The liberal group Moveon.org has been sending out e-mails to warn that Republicans are back in control of the House and to ask recipients to sign a petition that states,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 13, 2011)
On Feb. 15, on the recommendation of its Peace & Justice Commission, the Berkeley (Calif.) City Council is set to vote on a resolution to invite "one or two cleared"... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 10, 2011)
In one of her many iterations, Arianna Huffington targeted "corporate greed" as a force undermining America. That was during one of her populist phases, which frequently are... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 09, 2011)
When he was in his residency, studying psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 2003 to 2009, Nidal Hasan gave a lecture in which he defended Osama bin Laden,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 06, 2011)
After receiving at least $43 million in aid from the state of Massachusetts, Evergreen Solar announced last month that it would be closing its manufacturing plant in Devens,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 03, 2011)
Forget all that talk about bipartisan civility. When some 200 conservatives showed up for a weekend conference hosted by the libertarian-leaning industrialist brothers... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Feb 01, 2011)
"We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem." That's a Republican mantra often used to explain why the answer to Washington's deficit spending is not a tax... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 30, 2011)
Four times this month, the U.S. Supreme Court has slapped down the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Four times the Big Bench unanimously reversed Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 27, 2011)
The problem with left-leaning elites trying to run the U.S. economy from the top down is simple: They think the answer to America's economic woes is to create... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 23, 2011)
GOP Assemblyman Chris Norby is a former Orange County supervisor with a longtime and deep aversion to California's 425 redevelopment agencies. Some redevelopment zones may... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 20, 2011)
In a January 2008 Democratic presidential debate, then-Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both promised to deliver universal health care plans. But Obama hit Clinton for... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 18, 2011)
Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico and likely 2012 presidential candidate, is serious when he says he wants to end deficit spending. He's so serious that... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 16, 2011)
When he unveiled his budget, the California governor boasted that he was delivering a spending plan without "gimmicks, tricks and unrealistic expectations."On the one hand,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 13, 2011)
This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in 2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination because Republican voters are not... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 11, 2011)
How do we react to the horrific murders of Christina Green, 9; John Roll, 63; Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79; and the... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 09, 2011)
Odysseus-like, Jerry Brown journeys back to his ancestral home.
Sing in me, Muse, and tell the story of the godlike Jerry Brown,
Who became a political wanderer,... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 04, 2011)
As he was sworn in as governor at Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium on Monday "with no mental reservations," Brown gave Californians reason to be optimistic that he might... more
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Debra J. Saunders (Jan 02, 2011)
While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is celebrating his $1 million-plus book deal on a 600-acre estate and enjoying his status as a lefty fringe hero, former cartoonist... more