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• George Thorogood rocks Lodi's Grape Bowl

• Freedom from Religion Foundation pleased by Lodi council's efforts to remove Christ references from invocations

• Local teachers start summer band program

• Regional Roundup

• Correction

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (72)
• President Obama's first year (67)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future (60)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (49)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (40)
• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen (31)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (31)

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Society must be torn down before 'change'

How's the stimulus working for you?

That's my little standing joke, and I haven't found one person, yet, who has benefited from the $787 billion dollars Congress budgeted in such an amazing hurry that none of them even read the bill. Six months later, it turns out very little of it has actually been spent.

Far from creating jobs, the stimulus has provoked fear of hyper-inflation, closing down business plans. Rather than "shovel-ready projects," money has gone to buy car companies and hand ownership to union bosses. And it has funded Democrat districts, in trouble because of high, progressive tax rates.

But joblessness has skyrocketed since Obama's inauguration. It's worse even than it looks because the average work week has dipped to just 33 hours.

Now, another 2,100-page, job-killing bill, Cap and Trade, has passed without anybody ever reading it. How could they? Three hundred pages were inserted at 3:06 a.m. on the morning of the vote.

Part of a stealth insertion was a tax on employee health benefits, which applies to all employees except union members. Union shops are exempt from this heavy tax. That's fair?

Is Obama killing jobs on purpose? Evidently. A mandated 11-percent minimum wage increase couldn't come at a worse time. Already entry level unemployment is at 24 percent and worsening. Yet Obama says, "The stimulus is working exactly as planned."

Obama brags in his book of studying under admitted communist Saul Alinsky. Alinsky teaches, in "Rules for Radicals," that an "organizer" (his word for communist radical) must tear down society before he can "change" it. He writes: "History is a relay of revolutions." "Movement means friction." "Change comes from power." "The first step in community organization is community disorganization." "We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world."

Doesn't it look like Obama is purposely destroying jobs?

Joseph Stalin purposely starved Ukrainians to make it easier to seize farms and turn them into collectives. Hopefully before change becomes that radical, voters will replace the collectivist community organizers.

Peter Stearns
Lodi