Teachers Union Throws Kids Under the Bus

JULY 5, 2011 By KATY GRIMES In an 11th hour budget move, Democrat lawmakers slipped a bill through the Assembly and Senate on behalf of the California Teachers Association. It protects teacher jobs over the educational rights of California’s children.

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Noted Lawyer Slammed in Judicial Gulag

JULY 5, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR When I met Richard Fine in the summer of 2001, he was riding high. Shortly after that he was rotting in jail. A prominent attorney with a thriving practice in Beverly Hills, in the

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Political Chicanery Behind AB 32's Delay

JULY 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Looks like ending global warming wasn’t so important after all. In 2012, California was supposed to implement the Cap and Trade part of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Now that’s being delayed

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CA Declaration of Independence 2011

JULY 4, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 13 Introduced by Senators Cannella, Berryhill, Emmerson, and Harman … Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 13 …relating to public employees’ benefits. In California, July 4, 2011, A DECLARATION … in the State

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Legislators: 'Less Power to the People'

JULY 4, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT California legislators — who seem unable to come up with an honest balanced budget, who always seek tax increases, and who won’t pass even modest reforms to the state’s unfunded pension system or to

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Bureaucrats Destroy CA Homes

John Seiler: Property rights aren’t just for big companies, which can hire lawyers to defend themselves. Property rights are for the “little people” whom government easily can assault. The L.A. Weekly produced a new video showing how L.A. County bureaucrats

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Reflecting on lost freedoms on July 4

JULY 1, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT This morning the Armstrong and Getty talk-show hosts were reporting on proposed new California legislation — opposed by many of the usual law-and-order  types — that would overturn the current state of affairs, in

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