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Nov. 7, 2012 Katy Grimes: The ballot initiative results makes it appear that it appears that California residents love paying taxes, According to the California Secretary of State’s website, Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increase measure, passed 53.9 percent to 46.1 percent. This makes
Read MoreUnions totally dominate California
6:39 am, Nov. 7, 2012 By John Seiler California should change its name to Unionifornia. The public-employee unions won everything yesterday. They beat Proposition 32, which would have curbed their ability to siphon money directly from employees’ paychecks. They won
Read MoreProp. 30 tax increase now winning
11:21 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler With 37.7 percent of precincts now reporting, Prop 30 now is winning, 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent. Looks like Gov. Jerry Brown got his tax increase. Too bad it’s going to kill
Read MoreEarly voting: Too close on major Calif. propositions
10:06 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler It’s too early to call the major state initiatives. Looks like it’ll be a long night. According to the Secretary of State’s Web site, just 19.1 percent of the vote has been
Read MoreLiberal Republican Romney loses
8:21 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler The networks are calling the Obama victory, which I’ve been predicting for months. As I’ve been telling everybody, Romney is a liberal Republican whose positions are almost the same as the liberal
Read MoreElection 2012 blow by blow
Nov. 6, 2012 Katy Grimes: Election results are all over the place right now. I’ll update throughout the evening. The thought to keep in mind is will the massive increase in welfare and other government entitlements impact this election? 6:30
Read MorePartisanship evidence of how much at stake in election
Nov. 6, 2012 Katy Grimes: This is the most partisan election I’ve seen since I first voted in 1980. But there is a reason, and one apparently rooted in American history. A telling example of the partisanship along with much irony
Read MoreWe’ll be live-blogging the election
Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler We’ll be live-blogging the election beginning around 5 pm, if that’s when the East Coast returns start coming in. And at 8 pm, the California returns will start to come in. Stay tuned. Personally,
Read More2012’s October surprise: Media’s decision to ignore Benghazi lies
Nov. 6, 2012 By Chris Reed As a libertarian who still seethes over Newt Gingrich’s and George W. Bush’s betrayal of small-government conservatism, I have tons of issues with the modern Republican Party. But I have to say the GOP
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Citizen candidate challenging Dickinson
Nov. 5, 2012 Katy Grimes: In a perfect world, the most qualified and sincere candidate would always win. But California is far from the perfect world, which might explain a great deal about the state’s diseased political class. There are
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