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‘Will San Diego elect a gay libertarian or a snarling misanthrope as mayor?’

CalWatchdog Staff November 1, 2012

Nov. 1, 2012 By Chris Reed That’s the headline I suggested for the a piece I did for the American Spectator on the election fight in my hometown. “SAN DIEGO — For four decades, California’s second-largest city has had a

Prop. 30 aftermath: Dan Walters channels CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 By Chris Reed On Tuesday, CalWatchdog told readers that the idea the teachers unions would accept trigger cuts if Prop. 30 failed was ridiculous. “Does anyone really think the California Teachers Association and its less brash little

Archie Bunker explains the election

Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Back in the late 1970s, with a previous bogus energy “crisis” striking, and Democrats demanding that citizens make “sacrifices,” philosopher Archie Bunker explained what was going in words that still resonate today.

Attack of the student zombies

CalWatchdog Staff October 31, 2012

Oct. 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: Beware the student zombies at CSU Sacramento and CSU Sonoma. The California Faculty Association is sponsoring a flash mob today at the colleges, “with staff and students in costume, dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ with

N.Y. Times continues tradition of inept California coverage

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed The New York Times’ history of poor coverage of California is extreme. It always blames Prop. 13 for the state’s problems. It offers 8,000-word analyses of California’s government dysfunction that never mention the power

Gov. Brown calls CBS reporter ‘thug’

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: UPDATE: Since I wrote about Gov. Jerry Brown’s awkward confrontational moment with a Los Angeles reporter last week, I expected to see the story all over the news. When a governor behaves badly in public,

Obama’s green jobs went up in smoke

CalWatchdog Staff October 30, 2012

Oct. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: The phony green jobs that I have been writing about for several years are just another inconvenient truth in this administration. The U.S. Labor Department’s Inspector General just released a report on Friday revealing that President

Gov. Brown goes back to school

CalWatchdog Staff October 29, 2012

Oct. 29, 2012 Katy Grimes: Some say that Gov. Jerry Brown is getting schooled on Proposition 30. Others say he’s rekindling his youth. Either way, Brown is spending a great deal of time on college campuses these days trying to

Congressional race in San Diego takes macabre turn

CalWatchdog Staff October 29, 2012

Oct. 29, 2012 By Chris Reed In the 52nd congressional district, San Diego’s small-government conservatives don’t have all too much to cheer for. Incumbent Brian Bilbray was part of the 1994 “Contract for America” class of House Republicans who betrayed

This could be fun

CalWatchdog Staff October 28, 2012

Oct. 28, 2012 By John Seiler It looks like Proposition 30 is going down to defeat. So what I’m looking forward to is Gov. Jerry Brown going into a meltdown when his pet prop loses. He could rail against the