Serious problems should be met with serious solutions. We have serious problems, namely a fast-growing debt and a need to extend some tax cuts in an unforgiving environment where interest rates are high and inflation is rising again.

The solution to California’s refinery problem is not a government takeover, but deregulation and tax cuts.

The Do matter points to the perils of “free” government money.

The insurance commissioner must, of course, protect the interests of consumers, but one of those interests is a healthy insurance market, and a parallel duty is making insurance profitable enough to keep insurers willing to do business in California.

This might all be nothing, but it sounds like it could be something.

Abolishing term limits won’t solve all of our problems, but it’s definitely a component of the solution.

Doing so would also go a long way toward moving the debate in Washington, D.C., back toward the reasonable middle, where most Americans feel comfortable.

Just a few months ago, California voters decisively rejected Proposition 6. The measure, put before the voters by the state Legislature, proposed removing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the now-infamous Executive Order 9066 on this day in 1942, which gave military commanders the power to prescribe areas “from which any or all persons may be excluded.”

That “Face the Nation” segment is the stuff of a “Saturday Night Live” skit. But do the “SNL” writers see that?