Arnold says the people spoke at the polls. They did, but he wasn't listening. Of course, English isn't his first language; celebrity is.

We didn't say our rich, healthy, girly-man dissing, celebrity governor should terminate welfare. Unlike some, we don't hate the poor.

We didn't say turn California into Mississippi....

President Obama's decision to spare CIA torturers from prosecution stands the Nuremberg principles on their head. "Good Germans" who were only following orders' are not exempt from the bar of justice. Individuals must be held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Justice Robert Jackson, Chief United States...

El Salvador: Same Old, Same Old?

What's going on down south? Is it the 'same old, same old' in different form?

Yesterday, Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador, echoing the assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, asked Salvadorans to stop the wave of violence that has shaken the country during...

The Hollywood-centric "Membership First" (MF) faction that has controlled the Screen Actors Guild's National Board for most of the last five years consistently uses tactics - misinformation, tough talk, over-promising and ineptitude - that undermine the union's credibility. Today, blustering and posturing instead of negotiating have clearly painted us into...

"You really do hate America!" This was the parting shot from a man I had just debated on a television show shortly before the invasion of Iraq. Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughed it off as the ravings of a crackpot in extremis.

Little did I know......

This Piece Was Co-written by Donald A. McCartin

We are an unlikely pair -- not "The Odd Couple," but close. Forty-five years ago, one was a successful lawyer practicing in Orange County, the other an aspiring actor living there because his new wife taught at Laguna Beach High School.

Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Try it here in the U.S. But wear boots; it's a sewer.

You may know that our prisons are appalling. If you don't, you should; you're responsible. But even with what...

Mr. Bush claims that rumors of plans to attack Iran are 'baseless gossip.' So why am I still worried?

Five years ago we established Artists United to Win Without War because of concern about the veracity of Mr. Bush's claims about Iraq. We were alarmed at the hawkish tirades from...