http://www.ojaiorange.com "The American Revolution was fought so that the people could have sovereignty. Imagining that our president will be our savior makes us re-imagine democracy in opposite terms. The president has all the power and we get our power as a people from him, which is the way of a monarchy." http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/101108.php http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/101108.php "'The trouble with practical jokes, is that they often get elected.'--Will Rogers (1879-1935)" http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/100408.php http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/100408.php "We have made a mistake in this society. The assumption that everybody can be a homeowner is wrong. We pushed and encouraged people into home ownership--people who in some cases weren't ready for it." http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/092708.php http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/092708.php "We have made a mistake in this society. The assumption that everybody can be a homeowner is wrong. We pushed and encouraged people into home ownership--people who in some cases weren't ready for it. You can't act on wishes that are unrealistic without having negative consequences." - Representative Barney Frank http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/092008.php http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/092008.php "Looking to the ancient Greeks for precedent, when they requested the known world to suspend all wars for the duration of the Olympics, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has declared September 21 an International Day of Peace and called for a minute of silence at noon." http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/091308.php http://www.ojaiorange.com/column/2008/091308.php