To understand how thoroughly muddled San Diego County's water policies are, consider this fact: In spite of growing demand, a relatively dry year and increasing environmentalist threats to water supplies, San Diego cannot withdraw a single drop from Lake Hodges, a sprawling, 30,000 acre-foot reservoir that the city acquired early in the last century.

One favorite lie on immigration reform is that liberals support enforcing the whole range of immigration laws. Really, they do. That's why, whenever someone proposes beefing up the Border Patrol with additional agents or giving the uniformed officers already on the border the tools and technology to do their jobs more effectively, there is a predictable outcry from those who worry that we're “militarizing” the border.