Free Barry Bonds!
John Seiler: The Feds have dropped six felony counts against former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, baseball’s all-time home-run leader. But this: Bonds now faces four charges of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice, all in connection
Read MoreAnother Rose Bird?
John Seiler: Here’s my criterion for justices to the California Supreme Court: That they be good justices. That’s it. I don’t care about their race, their creed, their color, their sex. They could be Martians. Just: Interpret the California Constitution
Read MorePATRIOT Act Canceled – for Now
John Seiler: In the wake of 9/11, President Bush and Congress micturated their collective pants and imposed the unconstitutional and misnamed “PATROT Act,” really the TRAITOR Act, to destroy our constitutional liberties. Yesterday some Republican congressmen, including newly elected Tea
Read MorePremature View On Judge's 'Green' Ruling
FEB. 8, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Chriss Street’s “CA Judges Get Cold Feet on Warming” (Feb. 7) prematurely celebrates Judges Ernest H. Goldsmith for recently halting the rollout of California’s cap and trade program and Judge Oliver Wanger’s December 2010
Read MoreWho Regulates Air Resources Agency?
FEB. 7, 2011 Despite a recent legal ruling halting implementation of California’s climate change law, the California Air Resources Board, a seemingly rogue agency with intimidating regulatory power, appears to be operating with a “business as usual” attitude. But many
Read MoreCuts Ahead For State's Many Regulations
Katy Grimes: California leads the country in regulatory laws. It’s nothing to be proud of. While other states mock California’s businesses representatives at national industry meetings for the crazy laws and regulations, California’s businesses owners and employees are paying the
Read MoreThe Real Meaning of the Constitution
By JOHN SEILER Writing recently in the Sacramento Bee, two professors mangled the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Alan Gibson of Cal State Chico and James Read of the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University in Minnesota
Read MoreCARB Wants To Take On Vast New Powers
FEB 3, 2011 By LLOYD BILLINGSLEY On Wednesday UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor Timothy P. Duane addressed an audience at the University of California Sacramento Center on the “Greening of the Grid.” His lecture also provided a revelation of
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