Opinion: In today’s pages: Republican budget-blockers, preening pedophiles, conservatives for Clinton
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The editorial board wonders what to do with the innocent but publicity-seeking pedophile Jack McClellan:
[I]n an age when we are inundated with revelations of child sexual abuse, McClellan, a self-described pedophile, has generated a new category of creep. Trumpeting his sexual interest in little girls on television and the Internet, selecting no individual victim but extending his potential interest to all, McClellan has successfully revolted much of California.He cannot be allowed to succeed in this act of emotional terrorism. And he will if we contort the laws and statutes created for 36 million residents in order to address one man’s twisted publicity spree.
The board is glad Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf didn’t declare a state of emergency. The board asks Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to start acting like the state’s top Republican and get his party to back a budget.
Columnist Joel Stein realizes that he doesn’t hate dogs -- he actually hates dog owners. Former Ronald Reagan advisor Bruce Bartlett says Hillary Clinton may be a good choice for GOP members unimpressed by their party’s candidates. Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Cabinet secretary Dan Dunmoyer wonders why state Republicans would block a budget that undeniably bears the mark of their party. Columnist Rosa Brooks thinks cuts in newspapers’ foreign bureaus will leave the world worse off.
Letter writers respond to the Bible being taught in public schools. Seal Beach’s Tom Pontac says, ‘While we’re at it, how about teaching -- as literature, of course -- the Koran, the Upanishads, the Torah and the teachings of Buddha to give our students a more complete grasp of this genre of literature?’