Q. With all of these fires we are having in California, Caltrans – in its infinite wisdom – was using lit flares on Coast Highway in North Laguna Beach. I was a sergeant with the California Highway ...

Two months ago, I wrote about the plight of a private, Tocquevillian-style civil association in the small town of Orcutt, California. That group, the Old Town Orcutt Revitalization Association (OTORA) ...

The agency set off a firestorm of protest last week when it removed a flag mural that had been painted on a concrete slab near the freeway section after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

An American flag flaps in the wind as storm clouds build over the main post office earlier this month in Denver. David Zalubowski AP It shouldn’t be against the law to fly Old Glory. But in some ...