New GOP Govs. Eye Cal Biz

John Seiler: The poaching of good California jobs and businesses has just begun. The new crop of GOP governors just elected across the fruited plain is looking to grab what they can from the anti-business Pyrite State. Jim Christie of Reuters

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Thug Beats Thug In AG Race

Steven Greenhut: It’s too bad it wasn’t possible for both Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley to lose, but that’s not the way elections are set up. These two AG candidates were remarkably bad, a sign that Californians no longer have

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Property Tax Appeals Due Today

Katy Grimes: With December 10th looming like a walk to the guillotine, I’m a little cranky this time of year. December 1oth is the day property taxes are due. It’s a mixed blessing type of feeling this year – things

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Sacto Seeks Riverfront Properties

Katy Grimes: More and more, we seem to be desensitized to the rights of individuals, versus the wants of many. Horrible examples of this are taking place everyday with the private property rights of individuals getting trampled on by local

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State Court's Clarity On Free Speech

This article was first published in the Freeman. NOV. 28, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT When kids get into complex arguments about who did what to whom, parents can usually sort through the miasma by focusing on a few key points.

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I'm Still Not Flying

John Seiler: One of my favorite columnists, Debra Saunders of the Chronicle, defended the TSA pat-downs at airports: TSA pat-downs prove it – Americans are whiners The latest controversy over Transportation Security Administration body scans and enhanced body pat-downs leaves no

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Green Bust Coming To Brown CA?

NOV. 24, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A developer of transmission lines for green energy is quoted in a November 17 article in the New York Times: “When wind guys talk to each other they say, ‘Damn, what are we going

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Do Not Boil The Turkey

Katy Grimes: My grandmother was Welsh. Her parents arrived from Wales during the gold rush, but never made it past Illinois. She was a lovely woman, well-educated, and schooled in all of the social graces, but she never quite mastered

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Thanksgiving For Dummies

Anthony Pignataro: Well, it’s that time again: the time when fire departments across our great nation respond to 1,300 fires caused by out of control cooking, as opposed to the 420 such fires they usually deal with every day. That’s

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Tyranny Comes to San Diego

John Seiler: San Diego is the most pleasant large city in the world. I relax every time I go there. Nice folks, great atmosphere and of course incomparable weather. That’s all ruined now with the TSA molester goons descending on

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