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Longevity hurting CalPERS
The California Public Employees Retirement System has a new problem: retirees are living longer. That means their pension payouts continue longer than was planned for. Reported AP: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday urged California’s largest public
Read MoreWill Tea Party be suppressed again in 2014?
A year ago Americans found out that the Obama administration perpetrated the biggest abuse of the IRS since the Nixon administration 40 years earlier. The IRS targeted the conservative Tea Party for special abuse, including California groups. For example, NorCal
Read MoreMizzou vs. CA egg fight
One reason for the long prosperity of the United States is that the country is a vast free-trade zone. Whatever the trade policies toward other countries over the years — protectionist or free trade — 330 million Americans can trade
Read MoreObamacare kills
Al Sharpton was on MSNBC saying how wonderful Obamacare is. Its state version here is Covered California. Actually, it kills. From Mediate: On Fox & Friends weekend edition, conservative pundit Ann Coulter told cohost Tucker Carlson that her friend’s sister had passed away over the weekend
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New L.A. NFL team would be a waste
Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks for winning the Super Bowl. Now back to politics. It looks like the Cleveland/Los Angeles/Anaheim/St. Louis Rams might return to Los Angeles: NEW YORK—There has been renewed attention in recent days on the NFL’s potential return
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Apple’s anti-Big Brother ad more relevant after 30 years
Thirty years on, the 1984 Super Bowl best is remembered for Apple’s iconic “1984” commercial. It included references to Big Brother and Orwell’s “1984” novel, the repressive Soviet Union during a tense part of the Cold War and the approaching
Read MoreCoincidence?
Headlines from today’s Drudge Report: Under a picture of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco: I’M NOT GOING! Nearby: REPORT: Nearly Half of America Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck… STOCKS WORST JANUARY IN FOUR YEARS… Inflation spiral looms…
Read MoreWhy no Asian Nobel economics laureates?
Fabled investor Jim Rogers brings up an important point: Why has there never been an Asian winner of the Nobel economics prize? Yet during the 44 years the prize has been awarded, it’s Asia’s economic dynamism that has astounded the
Read MoreEx cons working for Covered California
Long waits and frustrating computer snags might not be the worst thing about Covered California, our state’s version of Obamacare. Dig this: At least 43 convicted criminals are working asObamacare navigators in California, including three individuals with records of significant financial
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