Obamacare: Not enough doctors in CA, FL

Feb. 26, 2013 By John Seiler An axiom of Econ. 101 is: Lower cost increases demand. That’s what’s happening to Obamacare. By cutting the price of health care to zero for more patients, it’s greatly increasing demand. More people that

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High-Speed Rail hearing cuts off opposing speakers

Feb. 26, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — At Assembly Transportation Committee hearings in the Capitol on Monday, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, cut the microphone of two speakers during the three minutes left for public comment at the end. The

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Bridge over troubled cities

Feb. 26, 2013 By Katy Grimes Since 2007, the city of Sacramento has been threatening to build another major bridge over the Sacramento River between West Sacramento and Sacramento. Our then-City Council and Mayor agreed with West Sacramento that a bridge

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Probe shows CA Dems’ talk of ‘social justice’ a smokescreen

Feb. 26, 2013 By Chris Reed There has rarely been a journalistic scoop that did a better job of exposing the fraud that is the claim that state Democrats are the party of social justice than the report last week

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Sequester would axe large federal spending programs in CA

Feb. 25, 2013 By Chriss Street Over the weekend, the White House released a report detailing some of the programs and services in California that would be impacted beginning on March 1.  The Obama Administration has threatened that the cuts

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Is there any hope for CA Republicans?

Feb. 25, 2013 By John Seiler Last week I riffed on a column by Tony Quinn on Republicans, immigration and California, “Are Republicans Finally Learning to Count?” In turn, Quinn has responded to me: “He argues that even if they

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Voters can dry up ‘inevitable’ tax on rain

Feb. 25, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The lyrics to Celine Dion song, “Rain Tax (It’s Inevitable),” suggested that some day government was bound to levy a tax on natural rainfall. By 2009, the California legislature voted to impose just such a

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Democrats addicted to tax increases

Feb. 25, 2013 By Joseph Perkins You’ve heard the familiar fable about the scorpion and the frog? They meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on his back. The frog

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L.A. Times finally admits L.A. facing broad decline

Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As someone who’s lived in Southern California since 1990, it’s been pretty obvious to me that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have been in a broad decline that began when the end of

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S. Court splits on defending civil liberties

Feb. 24, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions regarding police powers were mixed, thus offering a reminder to civil libertarians that they cannot depend upon the high court to protect the public from unwarranted

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