
Betty Arenson | From a Peaceful Inauguration to Anti-Citizen Orders
2021’s Inauguration Day came with relative peace in Washington, D.C., and around most of the state capitols. But then nobody came to the D.C. party; American flags took the place

2021’s Inauguration Day came with relative peace in Washington, D.C., and around most of the state capitols. But then nobody came to the D.C. party; American flags took the place

So I decided as a New Year’s resolution to go completely nut-job Screaming Yellow Zonkers and switch sides. Pass the arsenic-laced Kool-Aid. Fit me for a foil hat (although, with

Once upon a time, in an area just north of the San Fernando Valley, residents were living the good life in a rural setting named Santa Clarita. But soon the

I affirm that the United States is the greatest nation in the world. I affirm our founders’ brilliance in declaring independence and creating our Constitution with all the institutional checks and

Today, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, Inauguration Day, is the four-year long-awaited day, hoped and prayed for by so many progressives and Democrats. A day when Joe Biden takes the presidency,

The impeachment process begins with a referral by the House of Representatives to the Senate regarding alleged misconduct by a public official. The Senate conducts a trial and a two-thirds

By David Hegg You should know that, to keep up with the pressure of a weekly deadline, I usually write this column a week ahead just in case my schedule

I’ve often thought of being a dictator. I’d be a benevolent dictator, because I’m a nice guy. But it would come with certain benefits, which I would enjoy to the

Seventy-five million Donald Trump supporters are outraged and appalled by what happened inside the walls of the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Our hearts go out to all the

This afternoon, 5:30 NST, which stands for Newhall Saugus Time, I will again enter the science-fictiony world of Zoom. Zoom is a relatively new invention, not quite a decade old.

I fondly remember standing at attention next to my grammar school desk, with right hand over my heart, and reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance,” along with my classmates each morning. As

What are the differences between a protest and a riot? It depends on who’s describing the event and who are the “victims.” If the describer is the mainstream media, beware.

Last Wednesday, before the seditious Capitol assault had been stoked by Donald Trump, my column read:“Manipulated by the Sorest Loser in American history, ‘representatives of the people’ are turning the

Recently, I shared a very funny cartoon on Facebook. It showed a photo of a mother confronting her child in bed, saying “I don’t care about the drugs or the

By David Hegg Recently, I spent some time with friends who have recently moved out of California. Like so many others who are fleeing our fair land because they can,

On Jan. 4, 2021, Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, offered the opening prayer before the House of Representatives. In an attempt to honor new rules of verbal inclusivity for the 117th Congress,

When my husband and I first moved to the beautiful Santa Clarita Valley, we were for all intents and purposes neophytes in the area of backyard planting. We bought our

While browsing social media this past week, I came across an eight-minute video, showing the arrest of three individuals in Valencia. It seems, when our local deputies were looking for

The ability to lose and concede graciously is woefully on public trial in America today. Led by a president whose deficiencies in decency disallow a gracious defeat, our entire nation

By David Hegg Many years ago when my son was playing at the highest level of the club soccer, he helped his team win a very prestigious national soccer tournament