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Back to homepage‘Everyone is moving out of California’
Feb. 27, 2013 By John Seiler An old friend I’ve known 46 years called and said, “I was just hearing from a lot of people that everyone is moving out of California. Are you OK?” She lives on the East
Read MoreShock! Taxpayers funnel $83 billion to banks
Feb. 26, 2013 By John Seiler Wonder where your tax $$$$$ go? Well, $83 billion a year goes to the Big Banks. Bloomberg reports: “Banks have a powerful incentive to get big and unwieldy. The larger they are, the more
Read MoreObamacare: Not enough doctors in CA, FL
Feb. 26, 2013 By John Seiler An axiom of Econ. 101 is: Lower cost increases demand. That’s what’s happening to Obamacare. By cutting the price of health care to zero for more patients, it’s greatly increasing demand. More people that
Read MoreBridge over troubled cities
Feb. 26, 2013 By Katy Grimes Since 2007, the city of Sacramento has been threatening to build another major bridge over the Sacramento River between West Sacramento and Sacramento. Our then-City Council and Mayor agreed with West Sacramento that a bridge
Read MoreProbe shows CA Dems’ talk of ‘social justice’ a smokescreen
Feb. 26, 2013 By Chris Reed There has rarely been a journalistic scoop that did a better job of exposing the fraud that is the claim that state Democrats are the party of social justice than the report last week
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Is there any hope for CA Republicans?
Feb. 25, 2013 By John Seiler Last week I riffed on a column by Tony Quinn on Republicans, immigration and California, “Are Republicans Finally Learning to Count?” In turn, Quinn has responded to me: “He argues that even if they
Read MoreL.A. Times finally admits L.A. facing broad decline
Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As someone who’s lived in Southern California since 1990, it’s been pretty obvious to me that Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have been in a broad decline that began when the end of
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‘Preschool for all’: Obama adopts Meathead goal, spin
Feb. 24, 2013 By Chris Reed Lance Izumi does a great job in the Orange County Register of documenting how President Obama’s push for universal preschool is a retread of actor-director Rob Reiner’s failed, scandal-scarred push in California — right
Read MoreCA suffers 3 of 8 “most miserable” cities
Feb. 23, 2013 By John Seiler In Forbes’ new ranking, three of the eight “most miserable” cities in the United States are in California: Modesto (No. 5 worst), Vallejo (No. 6) and Stockton (No. 8). Cities were graded on such
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