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Back to homepageCalifornians like sprawl far more than ‘smart growth’
June 25, 2013 By Chris Reed California’s official embrace of trendy “smart growth” — the policy/religion that assumes it’s best for individuals, communities and Gaia for most people to live in densely packed areas near transportation hubs, so they don’t
Read MoreNFL tricking kids into signing up for Obamacare
June 24, 2013 By John Seiler I used to be a big sports fan. But except for sporadic games in the other professional leagues, the only one I follow anymore is the NFL. I don’t know why. The game is
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W. Sacto Mayor threatens local businesses
June 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes A local Sacramento politician recently issued a threat to punish businesses who disagree with him. His threat barely received a blip in the news. In a recent State of the City speech, West
Read MoreCA jobless rate drops to 8.6 percent
June 24, 2013 By John Seiler The good news: California’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 percent in May. That’s the lowest since the 2008 Great Recession struck. The bad news: It’s still twice as high as it was in 2006,
Read MoreMiracle: L.A. Times finally admits Obama sees fracking as safe
June 23, 2013 By Chris Reed President Obama’s first energy secretary, interior secretary and EPA chief all at various times in his first term depicted hydraulic fracking — aka fracking — as safe. His Energy Department put out a report
Read MoreNullification spreading — how about ensuring privacy in CA?
June 23, 2013 By John Seiler Some good news: Nullification is spreading. AP reports: “JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is
Read MoreSan Diego mayor continues descent into psycho-bully self-parody
June 22, 2013 By Chris Reed When CalWatchdog last weighed in on San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, it was to point out the hagiographic qualities of an often-fawning L.A. Times profile of the chronic bully and then to detail a subsequent
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Brazil anti-govt. protests spreading
June 22, 2013 By John Seiler I noted earlier that anti-government protests have erupted in Brazil against their crummy government. Now the protests are spreading. The latest, as reported in the New YorkTimes: “More than a million protesters marched in
Read MoreAll hail Carlsbad: City abandons automatic ‘step’ raises
June 21, 2013 By Chris Reed It may stun people under 30, but inflation used to be a consistently brutal factor in American life. Until Fed chair Paul Volcker mostly squeezed inflation out of the U.S. economy in the early
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Obamacre ripoff: You die, Massachussets gets rich
June 21, 2013 By John Seiler California leads in state implementation of Obamacare. In 2010, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation making our state the first to set up the “insurance exchanges” that are supposed to make the system work (except
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