John Seiler, Author at CalWatchdog.com

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John Seiler

John Seiler has been writing about California for 25 years. That includes 22 years as an editorial writer for the Orange County Register and two years for CalWatchDog.com, where he is managing editor. He attended the University of Michigan and graduated from Hillsdale College. He was a Russian linguist in U.S. Army military intelligence from 1978 to 1982. He was an editor and writer for Phillips Publishing Company from 1983 to 1986. He has written for Policy Review, Chronicles, LewRockwell.com, Flash Report and numerous other publications. His email: [email protected]

Tax ’em if you got ’em

California is inhaling another pack of attempts to increase cigarette taxes. Joe Mathews enthuses about it on Fox and Hounds: This state needs to raise tobacco taxes. For a state as properly focused on health as California, the fact that

Calderon scandal

John Seiler December 2, 2013

Sac Bee finally discovers Gerawan-UFW story

John Seiler November 27, 2013

Since June, Katy Grimes has been covering the struggle between Gerawan Farms and its workers against the United Farm Workers union and Sacramento politicians. Almost two months ago, she profiled Silvia Lopez, the farm worker who was fighting UFW representation

Obamacare load

John Seiler November 25, 2013

Southern California country song

John Seiler November 24, 2013

I was driving around yesterday morning with a country music fan. He had on our local country station, Go Country 105. Up came this song, “Days of Gold,” by Jake Owen, about “Southern summers, that sun shinin’ down like Daddy’s

Fisker $192 million taxpayer investment goes to China

John Seiler November 23, 2013

This is the perfect government program. Fisker Automotive got $192 million of our tax dollars for its greenie electric flivver. Then it want bankrupt. Now the Chinese bought it for $25 million. So here’s how government works nowadays. 1. The

New Aussie PM brands carbon tax ‘socialism’

John Seiler November 21, 2013

Last month West Coast governors, led by Gov. Jerry Brown, agreed to impose carbon taxes on their people. And California has had a carbon trading system for a year now. But new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in an interview

The DOW has NOT set new records

John Seiler November 20, 2013

The so-called economic recovery supposedly is shown by the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering around the 16,000 mark, the highest ever. It’s just below that number as I write. In fact, adjusted for inflation, the DJIA is the same as

Prof. Dr. Schwarzenegger totally doesn’t recall his record

John Seiler November 20, 2013

Funding your own Institute entitles you to distort your record. Except with me. Last Friday ex-Gov. and USC Downey Prof. Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger (USC actually made him both a professor and a doctor) presided over a symposium at his USC

How CA GOP will attack Dems in 2014 election

John Seiler November 19, 2013

California Republicans might not be the most talented bunch, but now and then they can figure out what to do. This time, it’s obvious. They will do three things: 1. Attack Obamacare. 2. Attack Obamacare. 3. Attack Obamacare. The next