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Feb. 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — What do the California Air Resources Board, the Transit Authority, the Highway Patrol, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Bar Pilots have in common? More than you
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Video: Victor Hanson on California’s white minority and why it doesn’t matter
Feb. 5, 2013 By Brian Calle This is another segment in my recent interview with scholar and prolific author Victor Davis Hanson. He talks about legislation, pensions, schools, whites as a minority and immigration.
Read MoreKarma time: Unions figure out Obamacare is a nightmare
Feb. 5, 2013 By Chris Reed As I noted in a CalWatchdog post last week, the California media are covering the state government’s aggressive attempts to lead the nation in the early implemenation of Obamacare without bringing up its immense fundamental
Read MoreDisinvest in higher education
Feb. 5, 2013 By Joseph Perkins College is overrated. That’s the ineluctable conclusion to be drawn from a new study published by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The study’s co-authors, Richard Vedder, Jonathan Robe and Christopher Denhart, examined
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Jesse Jackson needs a history lesson on race and guns
Feb. 4, 2013 By John Seiler In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (YouTube below), Jesse Jackson said of defenders of the Second Amendment, “They’re fighting the government. This is a Confederate ideology. This is like serious [unintelligible] power
Read MoreDespite Prop. 30, CA revenues likely to miss the mark – again
Feb. 4, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana Will Gov. Jerry Brown get all the revenue increases he wants from Proposition 30, which voters passed last November? Brown recently said in an interview with Jeremy Hobson of Marketplace Morning Report that Prop.
Read MoreA kinder, gentler, gender-neutral state
Feb. 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes Have you noticed the press releases from legislators at the state Capitol are all gender-neutral? Lawmakers and staff refer to each other as “Assembly members,” and not “Assemblywoman” or “Assemblyman.” And even more ridiculously,
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Video: Victor Davis Hanson: The future of CA you don’t want to know
Feb. 4, 2013 By Brian Calle In my interview with Victor Davis Hanson, he warns of higher user fees in California. And more traffic tickets.
Read MoreGov. Brown, legislators fight over Prop. 39 funds for schools
Feb. 3, 2013 By Dave Roberts Gov. Jerry Brown declared at the start of his State of the State address, “We have wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget.” But in recent legislative hearings, the Legislative Analyst’s Office charged
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