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Back to homepageMiracle: Sacramento MSM laments California’s mass poverty
For months, Cal Watchdog, U-T San Diego columnist Steven Greenhut and the U-T editorial page have drawn attention to the fact that under a new measure of poverty introduced by the Census Bureau in November 2012, California has the worst
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Bonus babies: $516 million to state workers
How is the state government working for you this year? Is that Covered California/Obamacare rollout going smoothly? Well, then you should be happy at this AP report on bonuses paid to state workers: “The total cost reached $516 million in
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High tech may save CA, but it will definitely doom privacy
I’m all for technological advances. In fact, I’ve slowly come around to the wild-sounding idea that scientific breakthroughs just might save California from decline by creating so much wealth and free stuff that eventually we will live in what Slate
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CA suffers highest percentage of poor
This kind of puts a kink in Gov. Jerry Brown’s insistence that “California is back.” According to a new study by the U.S. Census Bureau, when housing is factored in, California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, at 23.8 percent.
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In VA, govt. workers elect govt. governor
The victory of Democrat Terry McAuliffe for governor of Virginia shows the power of the federal government over local elections in the D.C. area. Virginia used to be a conservative state; and still is in most areas outside of Northern
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Police assault horror story
Even for this day and age of police harassment of citizens, this is a horror story, from New Mexico: A review of medical records, police reports and a federal lawsuit show deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, police officers
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‘Affordable’ Care Act hikes rates for Californians
President Obama now is denying he said of your current medical insurance, “You can keep it.” But videos show him making that promise at least 23 times. Well, my insurance was canceled by him, even though I was perfectly happy
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What’s being ignored in the Calderon scandals
It’s interesting to see what stories the big newspapers choose to run, and more interesting to see what they ignore. Rather than never letting a good scandal go to waste, big media is part of making the news, or keeping
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If CA is poster child for Obamacare rollout, watch out
Thanks to incessantly upbeat and frequently dishonest press releases from Covered California, the Golden State is often depicted as the poster child for the rollout of Obamacare. Don’t tell that to Edie Littlefield Sundby, a San Diego woman with a
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Will CO follow CA and increase taxes?
Gov. Jerry Brown has set himself and California up as a new national model. Ten days ago he told a conference of the Center for American Progress: Three years ago California was called a failed state. They were virtually chortling
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