Brian Baker: Naked judicial activism and overreach

This week, for a second time, a federal district judge – this time in Hawaii – issued an injunction against President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from several specific countries.

Brian Baker: High cost of feel-good taxes

On March 7 we’re having an election in this county, and there’s only one thing on the ballot in the SCV: Measure H, a proposal to increase the sales tax

Brian Baker: Get used to it

In Tuesday’s edition of The Signal, a column by Jonathan Kraut entitled “Grassroots rallies: a new unity” and discussing Trump’s presidency makes it pretty clear that neither he nor his

Brian Baker: A leftist pipe dream

It’s official. The Electoral College has spoken. Donald Trump is about to become the President of these United States of America. Those last four words are important because they describe

Brian Baker: Write it on ice

In my last couple of columns I’ve been discussing how the American left has blown its collective mind over the election of Trump and its hair-on-fire antics in trying to

Brian Baker: Election recount is futile

In my last column I discussed the hair-on-fire reaction of the American left to the electoral rejection of the pantsuit woman in favor of the guy with the world’s biggest

Brian Baker: GOP elites get what they deserve

Well, the election’s over and now we know who’s the clear and indisputable loser: Clinton. The country has dodged a major bullet. But I’m more interested in considering what dynamic

Brian Baker: Values under question

The Nov. 1 edition of The Signal published a column by Jonathan Kraut entitled “Choose truth over fear.” Being familiar with Kraut’s usual approach to politics – a hard-left ideologue