The GOP's Valium Convention

By all accounts, the California Republican Party’s just-ended convention in Santa Clara was a downer. The Democrats must have spiked the hotel’s water with Valium. Republicans should go see Dr. Leo Marvin, Ph.D., the famous psychologist and author of the

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Is a notorious loophole about to close?

Shameless plug time: There are few revelations in my bosses’ new book Plunder!: How public employee unions are raiding treasuries, controlling our lives and bankrupting the nation (which you can buy here) that are more infuriating than the one about

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Unions buy Republicans … literally

Three unions were contributing sponsors of the California Republican Party convention in Santa Clara over the weekend. The sponsors are: The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs.

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Cedillo Wants Undocumented Community Counted

During the Senate Floor Session today, Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Chino, presented a Senate Resolution for “Be Counted Today,” supporting the census and census-related items. Senator Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, stood up to be counted, as he asked that his

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Jerry Brown Lore

A visit to the California Automobile Museum in Sacramento takes some people back in time to a happier era where the 1955 Corvette and the 1958 Cadillac El Dorado, signified coolness and luxury. Other museum visitors date a little farther

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No roads to recovery in sight

Mar. 15, 2010 With California teetering on insolvency, government union activists and liberal legislators are trying to whip the public into a “please tax us more” frenzy by scaring people about the consequences of spending cuts. At a union rally

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