The excitement and buzz about the initial public offering for Facebook is amazing. First of all, however, it's important to understand the IPO is not coming out in a couple of days. The company just filed with the SEC last week.

As I listen to political rhetoric from all sides, I am convinced that there are few “leaders” in Washington who truly understand the magnitude of the role. And whenever I speak with fellow citizens about the dearth of inspiring leadership in our country, invariably someone will say, “Well, a smart person wouldn’t run for office. It’s a miserable life. You’re never done campaigning, fundraising and jockeying for position. You’re always under the public’s microscope. One false move or slip of the tongue and you’re in the morning headlines with a target on your forehead. Who in their right mind would give up privacy and peace to pursue a political career?”

When California voters begin thinking seriously about the propositions they’ll vote up or down, one that's currently circulating might stand out as eminently sensible: Return the state’s three-strikes-and-you’re-out law to its original intent.

President Barack Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

The U.S. government has accumulated the largest debt in the entire history of the world.

Cultural and economic reasons have thrust English upon the world stage as the new lingua franca, a de facto language used for communications by people who do not share a mother tongue.

I am grateful to all airlines and the services they offer me. This column is not written in anger, nor is there any malice intended. It’s just a factual observation from a frequent customer. And a hope they can do the obvious.

A few years ago, complaints about Veterans Affairs hospital care made the news. Officials said the VA immediately took remedial action. It may have worked, or the complaints may have been isolated and inflated by a sensationalist media.

If California highways and parking lots of 2025 look considerably different from today’s, it will probably be because they'll contain almost 1.5 million more hybrid cars and trucks, hydrogen-driven vehicles, and plug-in hybrids that run mostly on electricity except on long trips.

Last week’s Sunday New York Times ran a front-page article titled “How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work.” The piece focuses on why Apple makes its iPhone in China. While the article covers an important subject that’s rarely discussed, it erred in focusing so much on it being a decision Apple made, as if it had other options. In fact, the issue about why so many manufacturing jobs have gone to China has been with us for decades and is not company specific, but an issue this country has failed to understand and do anything about.