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The origins of the assassination culture

Written on 16 Oct, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 20 comments

Opinion by ANDY CALDWELL I recently wrote about a phenomenon among the youth in America known as the “assassination culture.” In addition to Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who allegedly killed Charlie Kirk, we have Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League... (Continue reading)

Defeat Prop 50: Let’s not revisit the ribbon of shame

Written on 8 Oct, 2025 in Literary Corner, Opinion | 29 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Please Vote No on Proposition 50 to stop Gavin Newsom from rigging elections in California for the next several years. Your ballot is being mailed to you any day now. What is this all about? Well,... (Continue reading)

Charlie Kirk and the lost men of America

Written on 30 Sep, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 53 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL So, exactly how why did Charlie Kirk become so important to a generation of young men whose future is dim because they have been marginalized and forgotten by society? It is because he pushed back against... (Continue reading)

JFK, MLK, RFK and now CJK – Charles James Kirk

Written on 22 Sep, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 37 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Although I was a child when President John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, I vividly remember my own grief for their families and our country. What I don’t remember is anyone openly... (Continue reading)

The sour grapes of socialists

Written on 9 Sep, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 16 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL John Steinbeck’s classic “The Grapes of Wrath,” published in 1939, got its title from the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The hymn’s line is, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:... (Continue reading)

California’s crime spree and Gov. Gavin Newsom

Written on 14 Aug, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 15 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL While Gov. Gavin Newsom is closing one prison after another in California, criminal activity has not abated in our state for a myriad of reasons. In the City of Santa Barbara, at their recent annual Old... (Continue reading)

A long list of undesirables – elected, blind and otherwise

Written on 30 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 21 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”? Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at... (Continue reading)

Local politicians ignore the marijuana industry’s ugly underbelly

Written on 21 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 7 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL As the saying goes, our elected officials are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Pretty much every single south Santa Barbara County politico including supervisors Roy Lee, Joan Hartman and Laura Capps,... (Continue reading)

Immigration extremes, demography, and the Inability to change

Written on 12 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 20 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL The left in America has always frustrated any attempt to reform our immigration system by way of their demands for amnesty, read that full citizenship rights, for all illegal aliens. They would want us to believe... (Continue reading)

California’s doom loop versus original no kings movement

Written on 4 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Opinion | 11 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL I have written previously about California’s war on energy which is destroying our economy. Yet, the war on energy is but one facet of the war on our liberties and freedoms. I sat in on a... (Continue reading)