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Aug. 16, 2012 By Katy Grimes The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing last week was a mini civics lesson in what is going on in state politics, and what bad policy the state’s special-interest groups and labor unions are continually
Read MoreEven Hollywood is fleeing Taxifornia
Aug. 15, 2012 By John Seiler Hollywood’s leftist elite are big supporters of such causes as raising taxes and President Obama. The president is planning more events there in the fall to troll for campaign cash among the glitterati. Despite
Read More‘Policing for profit’ on the rise
Aug. 13, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Few groups of “sinners” are singled out in biblical accounts more than “tax collectors,” who were not merely state agents collecting revenue that taxpayers rightfully owed to the government. They were the
Read MoreCalPERS reveals its true colors
Steven Greenhut: When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — the nation’s largest retirement system, albeit one plagued by scandal — was pushing for massive retroactive pension increases for California government employees in 1999, the system released a report that,
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Third World Kalifornia
Aug. 10, 2012 By John Seiler California continues to descend into Third World status, complete with corrupt, secretive government. The latest from Dan Walters: “Let’s not mince words about what the state Senate’s Democratic leader did Wednesday. It was self-serving
Read MoreDo you think you are free?
Aug. 9, 2012 By John Seiler With inflation gearing up again, there’s one safe way to protect your money that’s existed for millennia: hold it in gold. A new bank lets you do so: “You can open accounts in dollars
Read MorePark fund scandal a ruse to grab gas tax funds from off-roaders
Aug. 6, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The first wisdom of politics is that things often are not what they seem. This appears to be the case with the much ballyhooed report that former California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman “hid”
Read MoreMayor takes on Anaheim violence
Aug. 6, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — After Tom Tait was sworn in as mayor of Anaheim in November 2010, he issued a statement announcing the city’s commitment to “kindness and freedom.” One reader — knowing this to be
Read MoreCourse list at Arnold’s new USC think tank
Aug. 6, 2012 By John Seiler Last week, über-moderate, Herr Post-Partisan Depression, ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger funded a new think tank in his dishonor at USC. As if he hadn’t done enough in his seven years as governor to wreck the state.
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