Ford Motor Company has taken full advantage of it's fumbling competitors over the summer, reporting a third quarter profit of $997 million according the New York Times. Ford's profit gains were due in large part to its new Ford Taurus

Take MSNBC's viewing audience, add CNN's to it, and then double it. The final product still doesn't add up to Fox News Channel's election-night audience. CNN offers some excellent programming. John King strikes me as a go-to guy on politics....

Republicans swept every statewide elected office--governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general--in the commonwealth of Virginia, something the GOP failed to do in their 1993 landslide. They captured the governorship of New Jersey, defeating incumbent multimillionaire Jon Corzine. In New York's 23rd...

A week ago, I wrote a post, borrowing on Adam Smith's phrase, called "Mercy to the Guilty Is Cruelty to the Innocent." In Cleveland, where cops have just discovered a tenth body on the property resided upon by Anthony Sowell,...

I have a prediction about tonight's political races. If Democrats fare well in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial battles, and the open New York House seat, then the election will be widely interpreted in the media as a referendum...

I woke up with an unfamiliar burning feeling in my muscles today. I worked out, hard, yesterday, for the first time in two months. An injury, and a conveniently timed expiration of my gym membership, sidelined me since September 1....

Sixteen years ago, I remember getting the election results--in those days only a few nerds I knew had the internet--that Republicans had not only won the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, but had taken Gracie Mansion in Gotham as...

Have you been following the race in New York's 23rd congressional district? The special election is Tuesday. Until this weekend, it featured three candidates: Republican Dierdre Scozzafava, Democrat Bill Owens, and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Former Alaska governor Sara Palin, Minnesota...

California's probate fees paid to both the probate lawyer and to the estate's executor are set by law. , I laid out the 4-3-2-1 statutory fee system. Your California probate attorney probably won't decline being paid the statutory probate fee.

About a week ago, USA Today ran entitled "5 Myths About Wills, and What You Should Do". These myths apply in California and ought to result in contacting a knowledgeable estate planning attorney about what can be done. Those myths

We're in a blue state, aren't we?What's the fuss over Republican resurgence in Virginia and New Jersey?Today's election results won't have any direct impact on the workers and various "stakeholders" we call the workers' comp community. But it will have

When the baby boomers among us think of bus drivers, we often think of Ralph Kramden.Kramden was the bus driver portrayed by Jackie Gleason on The Honeymooners. Big hearted but blustering, Kramden was the epitome of the 1950s working class,

Mel Gibson's 2006 misdemeanor conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol never happened. At least according to his criminal record. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lawrence J. Mira granted Actor Mel Gibson's request to have his criminal record

The city of Ontario is a great contributor to San Bernardino County's culture and prosperity. With an estimated population of 171,691 in 2000, it may not surprise many people that Ontario's population has increased to almost one hundred times the

In todays world, employers are doing background checks on perspective employees looking for criminal records. It is more important then ever to make sure your record is as clean as possible. Many doors of opportunity may close if you do

The concepts of "independent source" and "inevitable discovery" may serve to allow the introduction of illegally seized items into evidence. The prosecution must be able to show that the items discovered would have been inevitably discovered regardless of the illegal

As a major suburb in Orange County, the city of Irvine has an approximate population of 207,500. As the home of many Universities and situated within close proximity to popular beach sites such as Newport and Laguna, Irvine's population is

For the "exclusionary rule" to apply, the search and seizure must have been conducted by a peace officer or other "state agent." Evidence discovered by a non peace officer or private citizen does not fall within the protections of the

Democrats on Capitol Hill began a nervous debate Wednesday about the course President Obama has set for their party, with some questioning whether they should emphasize job creation over some of the more ambitious items on the president's agenda. "The

Ted Haggard, who started New Life Church in his Colorado Springs basement and built it into a megachurch with thousands of worshippers, has begun a new church in his living room. "We wanted to do something in our house to