California’s $26 billion budget deficit has been well publicized. It’s being resolved by cutting many programs. Most of the cuts affect education, the elderly and the disabled, low income people like home health aides and people on MediCal. $1.2 billion is also to be cut from prisons. Some of this includes releasing low priority offenders…

Sir Edward Downes, the well-known British conductor, and his wife Joan flew to Switzerland recently, registered at an assisted suicide clinic, paid the $6,000 and some fee, drank a white liquid and died. Joan was 74 and had terminal cancer. He was 85 with failing eye sight and hearing and though he had no terminal…

Now that the hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor is over, what do we know about the kind of justice she would be? Not more than we knew before it. We know she’s an articulate, bright lawyer who knows the law as much as you’d expect someone who’s been an Appellate Court judge for the last…