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Texas vs. California: What smug Fresno Bee doesn’t mention

Feb. 7, 2013 By Chris Reed The war of words between Gov. Jerry Brown and his Texas counterpart, Rick Perry, over California’s business climate has led to the usual snide comments about the Lone Star State from the media annex

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Schools ripping off kids’ lunch funds

Feb. 7, 2013 By John Seiler Talk about stealing candy from a baby. In Santa Ana, the government school district has been shifting money from kids’ food programs: “In one instance, the Santa Ana Unified School District billed a $301,000

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Note on deleted posts

Feb. 6, 2013 By John Seiler, Managing Editor An imposter poster going by “Hermit of Livery” long has been banned from this site for spamming attacks on religion. He has been spamming again. All of his spams have been deleted,

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Presidents abusing power: L.A. Times’ hypocrisy is immense

Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed When the Bush administration responded to 9-11 by using “advanced interrogation techniques” and detaining hundreds of terror suspects indefinitely, all without offering clarity about exactly what it was doing and the legal rationales it

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Scandal ‘boring’? Arrogant Jerry Brown drinks his own Kool-Aid

Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed Sacramento is still buzzing over a bizarre and obnoxious scandal in which state parks officials hid $54 million while pressing to close 70 parks, and along comes another scandal in which Cal Fire hides

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Obamacare grants exemptions for everyone but taxpayers

Feb. 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes Obamacare is beginning to directly affect Californians’ wallets — and health. New regulations released last week from the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services made it clear that spouses and children

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CARB honcho Mary Nichols makes power grab

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.

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Karma 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

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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

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