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Phony ‘recovery’: Home ownership at 18-year low

More proof there has been no “recovery”: “The U.S. homeownership rate, which soared to a record high 69.2 percent in 2004, is back where it was two decades ago, before the housing bubble inflated, busted and ripped more than 7

CA media still eager for higher taxes

Chris Reed July 30, 2013

The way that Sacramento beat reporters judge developments is so much different than the way a typical California adult would. Consider what the Los Angeles Times’ Marc Lifsher wrote about the agenda of Gov. Jerry Brown after the Legislature ended

Still working on spam problem

CalWatchdog Staff July 30, 2013

If you wrote a Comment and it didn’t make it, please post it again. We’re still dealing with a massive Spam problem on our new Web site. Some good comments may have gotten deleted. Of course, abusive Comments still will

Fissures ripping apart CA Dem ranks

John Seiler July 29, 2013

Monopoly parties appear monolithic. They seem to control everything. But underneath, they’re split by fissures. Such is the Democratic Party in California. It controls every statewide office. It enjoys supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature. Last November, it passed

Obamacare enforcers reject Obamacare

Katy Grimes July 29, 2013

Riddle me this, Batman: the Obamacare health plan is so bad, even its IRS enforcers don’t want to give up their existing federal health plans for the new Obamacare plan. The National Treasury Employees Union wants its members to be

Editor’s Note on Comments & Spam

John Seiler July 28, 2013

We’re still adjusting to our new site. If you put up a Comment and it hasn’t shown up within 24 hours, please put it up again. It might have gotten lost in the transition, accidentally deleted as Spam. Of course,

Scam to help Filner avoid/delay recall?

Chris Reed July 28, 2013

What was this past week’s biggest development on the Bob Filner front? What single event happened that will have the most long-term consequences in the hilarious/sad scandal of the San Diego mayor whose name will now forever be a synonym

LAUSD’s iPad gimmick

John Seiler July 27, 2013

Back in 1972-73, my senior year, I took a humanities class from a great teacher at Wayne Memorial High School, my public school in Wayne, Mich. An Italian immigrant whose family had suffered under Mussolini’s fascists, he instilled in me

The ultimate example of how CA is rigged

Chris Reed July 27, 2013

California isn’t the Golden State, it’s the Public Employee State. Nothing makes the case more succinctly than what’s now unfolding at UC Davis, where thuggishness by a government employee could lead to a big payoff, not harsh punishment. “DAVIS, Calif.

Pelosi protects Stasi superstate

John Seiler July 26, 2013

The key person keeping the NSA-Stasi National Security State going is Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco., the House Democratic Leader; and former and possibly future House Speaker. Reported Foreign Policy magazine: “The obituary of Rep. Justin Amash’s amendment to claw