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L.A. on a deathride to bankruptcy
April 9, 2012 By John Seiler City of Angels. City of Dreams. City with a “Holy wood.” City that’s Tinseltown. City driving off a bankruptcy cliff. Los Angeles and the state of California are racing in a Chicken Run like
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A political form of reefer madness
April 9, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Some Oakland residents are furious that on the same day a gunman murdered seven people this week at the private Oikos University in the city, SWAT teams raided a different educational institution less
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How government really works
April 5, 2012 By John Seiler Politicians like to tell us how much they’re “helping” us. How wonderful their “programs” are. But Eddie Murphy, playing a newly elected congressman, finds out how government really works in “The Distingushed Gentleman.” (Note:
Read MoreHappy Easter
All of us at CalWatchDog.com would like to wish everyone a happy and blessed Easter and Passover. Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. And Passover remembers the freeing of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Both have deep
Read MoreCongress might unrenew crony capitalism
April 6, 2012 By Chriss Street Life is getting more difficult for crony capitalists. President Obama and a bipartisan group of senators was unable convince their pals in Congress to extend ludicrously large subsidies for supposed renewable energy projects under
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