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Desperate governor turns to distortions

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 Steven Greenhut Gov. Jerry Brown has fiddled while Sacramento has burned, squandering his entire governorship on a pointless campaign to massively raise income taxes on the poor, middle class and wealthy Californians through the Prop. 30 sales

Do they really want to combat global warming?

Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Nowadays, almost anything that happens is blamed on “global warming.” Or its more recent euphemism, “climate change.” On his blog, Al Gore just wrote: “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a

Prop. 30 aftermath: Dan Walters channels CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 By Chris Reed On Tuesday, CalWatchdog told readers that the idea the teachers unions would accept trigger cuts if Prop. 30 failed was ridiculous. “Does anyone really think the California Teachers Association and its less brash little

Archie Bunker explains the election

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Back in the late 1970s, with a previous bogus energy “crisis” striking, and Democrats demanding that citizens make “sacrifices,” philosopher Archie Bunker explained what was going in words that still resonate today.

California’s fate rests on more than this election

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

October 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes As California voters prepare to square off with several tax increase measures on next Tuesday’s ballot, the fate of California balances on a precarious cliff. But it’s not just the tax increases which could

Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unions

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By Mark Cabaniss If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout (1957) Gov. Jerry Brown out on the campaign trail recently, selling his newest tax hike, Proposition 30: “I like to quote from St.

Attack of the student zombies

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: Beware the student zombies at CSU Sacramento and CSU Sonoma. The California Faculty Association is sponsoring a flash mob today at the colleges, “with staff and students in costume, dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ with

N.Y. Times continues tradition of inept California coverage

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed The New York Times’ history of poor coverage of California is extreme. It always blames Prop. 13 for the state’s problems. It offers 8,000-word analyses of California’s government dysfunction that never mention the power

Whole Foods suffers second thoughts on Prop. 37

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The campaign over Proposition 37 isn’t as simple as it might seem at first glance. On the Nov. 6 ballot, the Genetically Engineered Labeling Initiative would mandate that genetically modified foods be given special labels. Whole

Reform for California only a vote away

Katy Grimes October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes Anyone who still has the hope of reforming California knows that it must begin with the political system. Far too many politicians in California are so heavily influenced by big money that constituents seem