the battles necessary. For that, I have earned great friends and a good life.

To my constituents in Western Riverside and Northern San Diego Counties, thank you. It has been a great honor in my life to be able to represent you. You invested a level of faith in my abilities. I only hope that I have justified the faith you had in me. To the others who have fought the good fight, I only hope that from time to time something I have said and done helps you continue the fight. Our country and our state are worth fighting for. The freedom our founding fathers secured with their blood, and each succeeding generation has preserved with theirs, is unique in this world, and it is our duty to pass it along to our children. No sacrifice is too great to ensure that we preserve that legacy. It would be a sad comment if our posterity were to look back at our time and said, "They ruined it for us." It is our responsibility to ensure their futures.

There will always be those who say that compromise and peace are better than freedom. We will be exhorted to lay down our arms to "work together" with those who would expand their power at the expense of our freedom. That is the siren’s song. We cannot destroy our children’s future freedom on the shoals of a compromise to achieve a peace that increases the power of government. Diligence in the preservation of freedom requires a willingness to ignore the insults of those who counsel surrender to power. Our short term distress and unease will yield to the long term internal peace in the knowledge that we have done our duty for our children and grandchildren, that we have preserved this great republic for their enjoyment as our forbears preserved it for us.

The battle is never over. Even now, after this last election, some are telling us to give up, to "just get along" with those who have made it clear that their acquisition of power is more important than freedom for our children. My counsel is this: Never give up. This is just one short term setback in the return of a national and state government that recognizes its limits and its power. The next election is just two years away, but freedom sacrificed for short term peace may never be regained.

I don’t know what will happen to me. I do know that the cause for which I have fought these last 14 years is an important cause. It is the cause for which hundreds of thousands have fought and died throughout the entire history of our Republic. It is the cause of limited government, individual freedom, and family. It is the cause of freedom.

In my time in the Legislature, I have had the opportunity to cut your taxes, and the opportunity to participate in a small way in the historic recall of a Governor. I have had the opportunity to fight against every increase in the size of state government, and to fight for families and the children not yet born. I may not have succeeded in all my endeavors, but I have never turned from a fight. I never will, and I hope you don’t either.

Thank you.

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http://www.dailybulletin.com/opinions/ci_4627233

11-09-06

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women who have served in uniform. I feel strongly that we must do more to recognize the contributions of veterans and to express appreciation. On Veterans Day - and throughout the year - I would like to see Americans take the following steps to show our individual and collective thanks: Think about veterans. Take a moment to remember those who have served in the armed forces.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/editorial2/20061105-9999-mz1ed5bottom.html

11-06-06

One of the enduring mysteries of our public school system is why spending more money does almost nothing to better educate our children. The answers are troubling. For openers, California pours far too much money into the maw of school district bureaucracies. Consider San Diego Unified, which in 2001 spent 62.5 percent of its operating budget inside its classrooms. That's according to SchoolMatters, a neutral clearinghouse for federal data. This year the district's budget calls for just 53 percent. So a key measure of efficiency is in free-fall.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/06/BAGCVM6PHC1.DTL

11-06-06

UC Berkeley physics Professor Richard A. Muller finds himself suddenly popular in some surprising corners of the world. It turns out self-starting students in 35 states and 43 countries have been watching the 90-minute "Physics for Future Presidents" talks he gives every Tuesday and Thursday morning to a packed lecture hall of 300 undergrads on campus. And the list is growing.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-minwage9nov09,1,4304720.story?coll=la-headlines-business

11-09-06

The first raise in the U.S. minimum wage in a decade has become a very likely possibility following Tuesday's Democratic election victories and passage of minimum-wage ballot measures in six states. President Bush suggested Wednesday that he would agree to a hike in the federal minimum, set at $5.15 an hour since 1997. This could restore a bit of California's competitive edge by making its recently passed minimum-wage hike less out of line with other states.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-santaana9nov09,1,1362569.story?coll=la-headlines-california

11-09-06

Santa Ana has already been anointed the most Spanish-speaking city in the United States. Now, it is the largest U.S. city with an all-Latino city council. On Tuesday, three Latino candidates won seats on the city's seven-member council, joining four other Latino incumbents. According to the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, no other city with a population over 300,000 holds that distinction.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sbmurders6nov06,1,1000463.story?coll=la-headlines-california

11-06-06

As daylight faded in San Bernardino, Reggie Brown, 12, traced a familiar path on his red bike: from Home Avenue to the white house on Magnolia Street where his friend Anthony Ramirez, 11, lived before he was shot to death. One evening in June, nearly a dozen neighborhood kids were choosing teams for a pickup basketball game at nearby Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School when a 15-year-old aspiring gang member fired into the crowd, striking Anthony in the back.

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http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/71366.html

11-06-06

California's state auditor last week issued a scathing review of the practices of a commission created in 1998 when voters approved a tobacco tax increase to fund services for young children. The California Children and Families Commission, the auditors said, used shoddy practices and violated state law in awarding millions of dollars in contracts to private firms for public relations work to promote its causes. But these transgressions, serious as they are, were run-of-the-mill government malfeasance. The commission skirted bidding rules and failed to account properly for costs. These problems can be corrected with better controls and improved oversight. People who broke the law can be prosecuted.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/07gender.html?ei=5090&en=2586a6f49b530f49&ex=1320555600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1162953783-nH7zdytSjxXLuNR7opwHNA

11-7-06

Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery. Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent. Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.

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