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NSA scandal could take huge toll on CA capital-gains revenue
Will the ever-burgeoning NSA spying scandal come back to haunt Jerry Brown and other state leaders when they craft the next budget? Given how much they are counting on capital-gains revenue from executives who cash in their stock holdings in
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A dramatic illustration of teacher unions’ grip on Sacramento
The Obama administration has had enough of the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers and how they use their clout to undercut education reform. “Hours before a key vote in the Legislature, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
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How’s Obamacare working in Canada?
Canada has injected its version of Obamacare into its body politic for more than 40 years. How’s it working? The following video is from the CBC, Canada’s government-run media system. The video reports that, in British Columbia, “wait times are
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Global cooling: Arctic ice GROWING
Remember Al Gore’s 2006 “An Convenient Truth?” phony documentary? It showed Arctic ice melting and crashing into the ocean. It garnered Al an Academy Award, a Nobel Peace Prize — and greatly increased his own personal wealth. It was part
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The bigger mafia
The state of California just nabbed another $32,000 from Al Pacino, star of “The Godfather,” “Scarface” and other gangster films. Reportedly, he promptly paid the “tax” bill. Even Don Corleone and Tony Montana have to pay “protection” money to bigger
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Why CA carbon auction and overall AB 32 approach are doomed
This month marks the seventh anniversary of Arnold Schwarzenegger signing AB 32 amid an orgy of self-congratulation over this alleged environmental landmark. Ever since then, I’ve written regularly about the basic flaw of AB 32: reducing the emissions believed to
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Why do Dems nominate Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer?
California is supposed to be a liberal state, with the most liberal Democratic Party in the country. Yet its top honchos back the bombing of Syria that is overwhelmingly opposed by Americans — left, right and center. Those honchos: House
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Underappreciated Prop. 13 fact: It protects vulnerable in housing bubbles
As the push builds in Sacramento to undercut Proposition 13 by weakening its limits on how fast business property taxes can increase, it’s worth making two basic points in defense of the 1978 initiative — one of which doesn’t get
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Kids burning Obamacare cards
If you're old enough, you might recall students burning their draft cards during the 1960s and early 1970s. They were protesting LBJ's War, which we lost after 58,000 brave young Americans troops were killed, and about 3 million Vietnamese. The
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Tax-funded zombies
I've enjoyed the “Walking Dead” TV show. Although the last season wasn't as good because they got away from the Zombies and featured the Rick vs. the Governor human conflict. The Governor better could be called “the Government” because, like
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