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Back to homepageU.S. Census Bureau ratted out Japanese Americans in WWII
Sept. 5, 2012 By John Seiler One of the most disgraceful acts in American history was the incarceration of loyal Japanese-Americans in what President Roosevelt, who instigated the abomination, called “concentration camps.” Under FDR’s unconstitutional Executive Order 9066, more than
Read MoreProp 13 survives another neutering
Sept. 5, 2012 Katy Grimes: Without fanfare, or headlines, the latest attempt to neuter Proposition 13 failed to pass the Assembly. Property owners probably don’t know how close it was. 43 Democrats voted in favor of of removing the required two-thirds
Read MoreI told you so
Sept. 5, 2012 By John Seiler I’ve been warning about California’s looming fiscal disaster for more than a decade now. While researching another article, I dug out some quotes from articles I wrote for the Orange County Regisgter, where I
Read MoreEncouraging signs from Todd Spitzer
Steven Greenhut: Over the years, I’ve been pretty tough on Orange County Supervisor-elect Todd Spitzer because of his closeness to the public safety unions and support for retroactive pension increases that put the county in a financial bind. I was
Read MoreDing, dong, tax bill is dead!
Sept. 1, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California Senate killed Assembly Speaker John Pérez’s AB 1500, which would have taxed out-of-state businesses. Ding dong, one more tax measure is dead… for now. Perez worked like a mad man on Friday to
Read MoreMeyerson makes ridiculous attack on GOP
Aug. 31, 2012 By John Seiler I have a lot of problems with the Republican Party. They don’t come nearly close enough to supporting as much liberty as I do. But it’s also worth pointing out ridiculous attacks on them,
Read MoreQuantity, not quality, in Calif Assembly
Aug. 30, 2012 Katy Grimes: What do nannies, alcoholic beverages, green jobs, CalEPA, voter registration, absentee voters, manufacturers, online education, the Air Resources Board, and farm workers have in common? There was legislation about each one of these issues this
Read MoreGov. Brown’s pension non-reform
Aug. 30, 2012 By John Seiler As the smoke and the rhetoric have settled, you know pension reform is weak when: a) It’s criticized by an analysis in the Los Angeles Times. c) Ridiculed by the paper’s liberal columnist George
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I brave watching the GOP convention
Aug. 29, 2012 By John Seiler I watched the Republican National Convention speeches yesterday evening the only way possible: by sipping bourbon. It was obvious the whole thing was scripted to project a TV image of the GOP as cuddly
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