Top officials live up (down?) to bullet train tradition

June 10, 2013 By Chris Reed When the Los Angeles Times broke the story in April that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had quietly changed the rules to de-emphasize the importance of technical competence among bidders for the first segment

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Congrats to LAT on success of fracking disinformation campaign

June 9, 2013 By Chris Reed The new Los Angeles Times poll showing sharp skepticism among Californians about hydraulic fracturing — the newly improved oil-gas drilling process that has triggered a brown energy revolution — should trigger fierce pride among

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Political energy crisis in the making

June 9, 2013 By Katy Grimes With industrial electricity rates 88 percent higher in California than in Texas last year, the news that the San Onofre nuclear plant in is not going to be restarted is just more evidence of

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‘Purge’ movie attacks NRA, Tea Party

June 9, 2013 By John Seiler The new movie, “The Purge,” sounds like it’s the future of California when all budget money is shifted to pay the pensions of retirees, canceling actual government services. Violent crime already has gone up

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Ron Paul: ‘Fourth Amendment gone’

June 8, 2013 By John Seiler Our Bill of Rights is our check on totalitarianism. Now, because of the government’s complete snooping on our phone records, it’s “totally gone,” according to Ron Paul, the former U.S. representative and presidential candidate.

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State can offload retiree health costs on Obamacare

June 8, 2013 By Chris Reed One of the best reasons to snort with derision over Gov. Jerry Brown’s claim to have whipped the state budget into shape is his decision to simply ignore the crisis posed by cost of

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Obama imposes United Stasi States

June 7, 2013 By John Seiler Republicans bear much of the blame for turning free America into the United Stasi States. They were the main ones who passed the laws, albeit with Democratic help, shredding our Bill of Rights. But

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CA tops NY as ‘Most Hopeless State’

June 7, 2013 By John Seiler Well, we still enjoy better weather. But our colleague Steven Greenhut makes the case that California is worse even than New York State under Gov. Andrew “Worse Even Than Pops Mario” Cuomo: Whenever a free-market

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Empire-building drives dishonest spin from Covered California

June 7, 2013 By Chris Reed Cato’s Michael Cannon has been a tremendous source of common-sense analysis of Obamacare for years. In a recent commentary on why Covered California would put out such a mendacious and dishonest account of Obamacare’s

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Obama has all my phone data!

June 6, 2013 For years I’ve had a Verizon phone. Now it turns out President Obama’s regime grabbed all my phone data without a warrant, and without notifying me. Am I one of those conservatives and libertarians the IRS has

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