Blackmail Goes Green

JAN. 10, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Anyone who tries to change the sacred texts of the California Environmental Equality Act will find out just how sacred they are and lose.  Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, found that out Monday. CEQA provides

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Why Jerry Will Kill High-Speed Rail

John Seiler: It’s High-Speed Rail fanatic Jerry Brown who himself will kill the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The reason: His first priority this year is passing his $7 billion tax increase ( which might only bring in $4.8 billion, according

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Why Not Use Last Year’s Budget?

John Seiler: Is California sliding into the Pacific Ocean? Are there riots in the streets? Are Californians starving to death? None of the above. Then the solution to the state budget problem is simple: Just rinse and repeat the fiscal

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Berkeley Mgr. Grabs $266K Pension

John Seiler: Say, wasn’t Berkeley the most liberal, progressive, hippest and hippiest place around? The Free Speech movement (pictured at right)? Anti-Vietnam War protests? Political Correctness that would make Mao envious? Ah, forget it. As it always does, it comes

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Global Warming Proved a Fake

John Seiler: New research proves global warming a fake. If this state had any sense, it would repeal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It forces the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which

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‘Inflation Tax’ Already Striking CA

JAN. 9, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Californians won’t have to wait for tax increases, such as the several that could be put before voters in the November election. One proposal is Gov. Jerry Brown’s $7 billion tax increase. Tax increases

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Arnold’s Bentley Sales Up 37%

John Seiler: I’ve been keeping tabs here on the hypocrisy of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love of gigantic, gas-guzzling dinosaurs. Since leaving office, he’s been photographed tooling around in a Mercedes G-Wagon SUV, so big it needs an entire Persian Gulf

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