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CA: Where environmental laws protect bird poop

April 9, 2013 By Chris Reed La Jolla is on the short list of the swankiest, most upscale places in the United States. But now a few blocks of the tony San Diego community are on the short list of

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Cutting pork could close CalSTRS funding gap

April 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The California Legislative Analyst recently reported that the funding gap for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System was $4.5 billion per year in additional funding. There’s no proposal on the table anywhere on how

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FPPC shuns investigation of CA legislators’ Cuba trip

April 9, 2013 By John Hrabe and Katy Grimes After Friday’s report on CalWatchdog.com that at least two state legislators traveled to Cuba with a powerful Sacramento lobbyist, you’d think the state’s political watchdog might be launching a formal investigation. After all,

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It’s mind over mattress with more regulations

April 9, 2013 By Katy Grimes As if manufacturers need any more California regulations to contend with, a new bill would require mattress manufacturers to organize, operate and pay for all mattress recycling in the state. But it’s already illegal

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Big Brother IRS is watching you on Twitter and Facebook

April 8, 2013 Just in time for the government’s favorite day of the year: April 15. When they gouge us down to the bone. Now the IRS is spying on our Twitter and Facebook accounts: “It says the effort is

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Arnold pushing new global-warming hysteria

April 8, 2013 By John Seiler Ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature legislation, AB 32, officially is called “The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.” Yet like President Obama, he no longer refers to “global warming,” but to a euphemism such as

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MSNBC-style media on the bandwagon for bullet-train farce

April 8, 2013 By Chris Reed When a friend urged me to check out the edition of “Dan Rather Reports” on high-speed rail in the U.S. that aired last month on Mark Cuban’s AXS.TV, I figured it would be good

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Why Kamala Harris is probably not thrilled with compliment

April 7, 2013 By Chris Reed The instant national chortling Thursday over the fact that President Obama had called California’s Kamala Harris the “best-looking” state attorney general ended up being more about seeing the usual slippery standards on political correctness.

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Why enforce AB 32 when new studies show no global warming?

April 7, 2013 By Warren Duffy Just a few years ago… In 2005, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed of the alleged threat of global warming, “I say the debate is over. . . . We know the science, we see the threat, and

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