Opinion

Tragically, a newborn baby was found dead Monday, abandoned on cropland in the unincorporated Nyeland Acres area west of Camarillo. Sheriff's investigators have been treating it as a homicide, standard procedure for events involving suspicious deaths.

Nepalese officials are expecting a traffic jam of about 200 climbers this weekend hoping to reach the top of Mount Everest. Last weekend, 208 tried to reach the summit; four died trying.

It is no small irony that President Obama's re-election bid is being undermined by his friends in Old Europe.

President Obama recently gave a commencement address but some in his audience were intent on giving him a lesson. Obama was speaking at Barnard College in New York — one of the country's most respected women's colleges — to highlight ...

Ten years ago, when my older daughter was in middle school, I wrote a column about a teacher who misspelled a word in a homework assignment.

When bald eagles confront danger, most normal Americans would leap to preserve, protect and defend America's national symbol. But Team Obama's response is completely different: It wants to give wind-power companies long-term permits to butcher bald eagles on the altar ...

For better or worse, Santa Barbara and Oxnard are destined to remain politically tethered for at least another decade, joined by legislative districts that connect the flatlands of the Oxnard Plain with the coastal bluffs of Montecito.

If a date can be affixed to when the war in Afghanistan began to end, Monday is as good as any. That's when NATO leaders meeting in Chicago announced an "irresistible transition" to having all the alliance's combat troops out ...

Democrats in Washington, D.C., are giving a whole new meaning to the Aesop maxim, "Once burned, twice shy." Because they failed to anticipate outside money tilting the scales toward Republicans two years ago, they lost control of the House. Now, ...

With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality. The nation's most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution were admirably clear, or so they and we thought, when they wrote in the Fifth Amendment that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law ..."

President Barack Obama's $840 billion stimulus contained more than a million dollars to study erectile dysfunction, and yes, I know, any complaint will be identified as a war on men.

California State University professors and other employees cannot engage in "discriminatory behavior, bullying or harassment," nor may they display "offensive conduct of an unwelcome nature ..."

If you're an air traveler whose connecting flights are routinely routed through airports prone to prolonged weather delays, this past winter was a pretty good one.

Want to know why the cost of a college education is skyrocketing? Look to some of our politicians. We've been sold that cheap student loans are the answer to making education affordable.