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Hank Jr. on the Depression

New numbers show that the co-called economic “recovery” is bogus. See Adam O'Neal's new article. And a new report showed that a record 90,473,000 Americans 16 years and older are not in the labor force. It's just going to get

Siskiyou County Declaration of Independence

John Seiler September 5, 2013

Hooray for Siskiyou County, whose Board of Supervisors just voted for the county to secede from California! They’re tired of the state regime’s record high taxes and incredible regulations; and the neglect of their needs and wishes. To help

Sea of grimy mattresses evidence of need for recycling bill

Katy Grimes September 5, 2013

A sea of used mattresses was on display at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday. The stained, lumpy mattresses were a grimy but convincing prop for a bill which would create a recovery and recycling program for used

Unreal: CA transit workers permanently protected from pension reductions

Chris Reed September 5, 2013

Californians are used to suffering the consequences from state laws drafted by unions and forced through by their allies/puppets in the state Legislature. But now we see the same phenomenon afflicting the Golden State thanks to a union payoff made

Californians fleeing to Nevada

John Seiler September 4, 2013

Taxes have consequences. That’s something tax increasers don’t understand. Remember how Gov. Jerry Brown and others campaigned last year for Prop. 30, saying millionaires had to “pay their fair share” (even though “millionaire” was defined, in California math, as someone

America becomes Stalag 13

John Seiler September 4, 2013

I was watching the classic TV sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” about a group of American and other allied prisoners stuck in a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag 13, during World War II. The most evil of the Nazis is Gestapo

Racial manipulation of UC admissions can’t help but go haywire

Chris Reed September 4, 2013

Want an exceptionally shrewd look at University of California admissions policies that lays out how the nominally race-neutral system is skewed by administrators desperately trying to prop up enrollment of some — but not all — minorities? Check out this

We are much less free than in 1975

John Seiler September 3, 2013

Economic Policy Journal lists 10 things you could do in 1975 you can’t do today because America is much less free: 1. You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID. 2. You could buy cough

Many reporters end up working for government

Katy Grimes September 3, 2013

Who holds government accountable? We the People rely on the media. But the line between government and journalism has grown fuzzy. “‘Veteran Journalist’ Joins Kerry as Staff at State Department,” the headline reads today on the Weekly Standard. t Douglas Frantz

Rare candor on CA joblessness — but not in Times or Bee, of course

Chris Reed September 3, 2013

With nearly one in five California adults who want to work full-time unable to find such a job, it should be obvious that unemployment is the biggest issue in the state. It explains why California has the highest poverty rate