Hillary Clinton wasted no time revving up her attack machine after her disappointing showing in this week's Democratic presidential primaries. The New York senator herself made the baldly racial claim that her rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, couldn't win in the general election because less educated whites didn't like him.

Many of California's courthouses are desperately in need of repair or replacement. Those who frequent them – from judges and attorneys to civil litigants, defendants and would-be jurors – would be hard-pressed to disagree, setting aside a few relatively new palaces of justice sprinkled around the state.