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Back to homepagePathetic media never report Obama’s support for fracking
March 12, 2013 By Chris Reed It’s bad enough that the media consistently depict hydraulic fracturing as new when it’s been around for 60-plus years. But what’s also amazing is that the California media covering the state government’s ongoing attempts
Read MoreSome minority L.A. Dems realize unions are dubious allies
March 12, 2013 By Chris Reed The hegemony of Democrats in California is based to a striking degree on the ability of public employee unions — whose leaders and most affluent members are predominantly white — to keep minorities on
Read MoreCA leaders still attacking businesses, jobs
March 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes While I am an eternal optimist, it is impossible to ignore that California is bleeding jobs. I am also a realist. Unfortunately for the Golden State, California’s leaders and lawmakers continue to ignore the
Read MoreEco-phony Arnold tools around in gas-guzzling Mercedes SLS AMG
March 11, 2013 By John Seiler According to the Daily Mail: “He has been seen enjoying a number of dates with a mystery blonde in recent weeks but on Thursday Arnold Schwarzenegger was indulging in his first love — his
Read MoreL.A. Times story on pension reform: Dumb de dumb dumb
March 11, 2013 By Chris Reed The Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend that public employee unions are suing to block some of the pension reforms that Gov. Jerry Brown got through the Legislature last fall. “Advocates for the changes
Read MoreCA GOP needs ideas, not just money
March 11, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Most of the activists, insiders and lobbyists I talked to during this month’s California Republican Party convention in Sacramento expressed optimism about their party despite blistering election losses and persistently falling voter
Read MoreDid the bullet train die in sequester fallout? Maybe. (Hallelujah!)
March 10, 2013 By Chris Reed The fallout of the sequester continues to be widely discussed, with the conventional wisdom being that President Barack Obama and his political team made a rare and serious miscalculation with their attempts to panic
Read MoreHow about solving murders instead of gun control?
March 10, 2013 By John Seiler California already has among the country’s most restrictive gun laws. Not satisfied with existing attacks on our Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” the state Legislature is pushing even more restrictive legislation.
Read MoreEven L.A. revolting against taxes
March 10, 2013 By John Seiler The big news in California the past week was not the mayor’s race in Los Angeles. It was the defeat in that election of the half-cent tax increase, Measure A, by 55 percent to
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