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CA Leg: After we pass the bill, we’ll fix it
April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes A strange trend is taking place at the State Capitol, and one which feels all too familiar after the passage of Obamacare. California Legislators have been passing seriously flawed and incomplete bills out of
Read More‘Unsafe handguns’ now the target of Dems
April 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes The many gun control bills being pushed through the Capitol are concerning. But many of them are also rather embarrassing. It has become evident that most of the legislators fixated on gun control have
Read MoreBankruptcy judge rejects CalPERS’ claim to protected status
April 3, 2013 By Chris Reed As John Seiler pointed out here Tuesday, Monday’s court ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein isn’t seen as definitive. Yes, the city of Stockton can proceed with its bankruptcy filing. No, Klein doesn’t yet
Read MoreCaltrans director about to be quietly reconfirmed
April 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes Caltrans is an agency in trouble. The most recent buffoonery involves putting California motorists at risk, with the 30 broken bolts discovered on the newly renovated San Francisco Bay Bridge. And apparently Caltrans knew
Read MoreCA Legislature attacking gun rights
April 2, 2013 By John Seiler If there’s one thing that might get me finally to move away from the beach to another state, it’s gun control. There’s no way I will let a tyrannical government take away my sacred
Read MoreSteve Maviglio, pension sage: Why it’s a laughable spectacle
April 2, 2013 By Chris Reed Steve Maviglio, a leading consigliere to top Sacramento Democrats for more than a decade, now regularly pretends to a new role. Even though he’s on Speaker John Perez’s payroll, Maviglio offers himself up on
Read MoreL.A. Times intolerant toward ‘intolerant’ conservatives over Google on Easter Sunday
April 1, 2013 By John Seiler The Los Angeles Times writer Robin Abcarian informs us: “There’s no intolerance like good conservative intolerance. “On Easter Sunday, Google incurred the wrath of the conservative Twittersphere when it chose to feature on its home
Read MoreAnother East Coast liberal misjudges CA
April 1, 2013 By John Seiler California is such a complex state that it’s often amusing when East Coast liberals try to explain it to us. The latest is from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. His article appeared in
Read MoreSo why is Google worth so much?
April 1, 2013 By John Seiler I kept hoping it was an April Fool’s Day joke. But the new Gmail from Google isn’t. It makes me wonder how they got to be worth so many billions. The new format opens
Read MoreReuters bests state media at covering San Bernardino’s collapse
April 1, 2013 By Chris Reed If you had to fashion a nut graph to explain why so many local California governments are in deep fiscal trouble, here’s my nominee for an honest generic overview: Over the past 20 years,
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