France boosting taxes before Calif. vote

July 6, 2012 By John Seiler France voted to put in office a socialist who promised to jack up taxes on “the rich” — and he’s doing it. He follows Nicholas Sarkozy, a Bush/Schwarzenegger type “conservative” who destroyed the country’s

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High-speed gravy train approved in Assembly and Senate

July 6, 2012 By Katy Grimes UPDATE: 4:45 p.m. SACRAMENTO — The Senate barely eked out passage of the high-speed rail bill, after a very close vote, 21-16. The vote approves the sale of $4.7 billion in bonds to begin building

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Lawmakers’ latest fib about small biz insurance

July 6, 2012 By Katy Grimes As the Legislature crammed to clear their plates this week so they could take their summer break, one atrocity after another oozed from the committees in the form of legislation. One of the worst

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Court backs cities on prevailing wage

July 6, 2012 By Joseph Perkins The California Supreme Court ruled this week that the state’s prevailing wage law does not apply to public works projects financed entirely by taxpayers residing in one of the state’s 121 chartered cities. The

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Andy Griffith defends our freedoms

July 5, 2012 By John Seiler The fascist USA Patriot Act (really, TRAITORS’ Act) was imposed on us in 2001, when President Bush and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress panicked after 9/11. It lets the government listen to your

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Canada scandal shows how Obamacare would work

July 5, 2012 By John Seiler Even before last week’s Supreme Court ruling mostly green-lighting Obamacare, California was in the forefront of implementing the centralized medicine scheme. In particular, it has been advancing the California Health Benefits Exchange, which would

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Obama, Boxer, Feinstein still shorting Central Valley farm water

July 5, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, are still shorting water to Central Valley farmers by vowing to kill H.R. 1837 in the U.S. Senate. That’s the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act sponsored by

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Kelly Thomas killing aftermath: Reforming how cops deal with the homeless

Editor’s note: Today marks a year since Kelly Thomas, an unarmed homeless man, was severely beaten by Fullerton police. He died five days later. This is the first of a three-part series. July 5, 2012 By Tori Richards An outside

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High-speed rail push leading to Nov slaughter?

July 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes Commentary This week could mark the last big, well-orchestrated push for high-speed rail. Think of it as a drug being mainlined directly into the state’s largest vein. High-speed rail is not about the train,

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Who cares if it’s ‘Made in U.S.A’?

July 4, 2012 By Katy Grimes ‘Made in America’ still stands for something with America’s consumers, but doesn’t appear to be as important for some politicians. Tuesday I wrote about Maglite flashlight founder Anthony Maglica, who has manufactured the heavy-duty

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