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Video: John Lott dissects two gun control fanatics
July 30, 2012 By John Seiler In the following YouTube, America’s top gun scholar, John Lott, faces off against two gun-control fanatics who hardly let him get in a word edgewise. One is host Piers Morgan, who like a lot
Read MoreS.F.’s hypocrisy on water
July 26, 2012 By John Seiler Our colleague Steven Greenhut just wrote for Bloomberg on San Francisco’s hypocrisy on water. Read the whole thing here. Key graphs: “Consider their response after a group called the Yosemite Restoration Campaign collected enough signatures to
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Obama’s General Motors bailout still ripping us off
July 26, 2012 By John Seiler One reason the American economic “recovery” is so weak is that, when General Motors went bankrupt in 2009, President Obama stole the company’s assets from bondholders to give to the UAW union. Yes, he
Read MoreGadfly Radio broadcasts perspective on Anaheim riots, state schools
July 25, 2012 By John Seiler Check out Gadfly Radio’s latest broadcast. Featured first is Gustavo Arellano, ace reporter for the OC Weekly, on the riots in Anaheim that followed the police shooting death of an unarmed man. The second
Read MoreEl Monte might tax fat kids
July 25, 2012 By John Seiler In the great Clint Eastwood Western “The Outlaw Josie Wales,” the Yankee Terrill says, “Doin’ right ain’t got no end.” So it is with busybodies everywhere. They just won’t leave us alone. The California Center
Read MoreBoosting minimum wage would kill jobs.
July 24, 2012 By John Seiler Even an atomic bomb doesn’t devastate a city as much as the minimum wage. After all, Hiroshima and Nagasaki recovered and today are thriving cities. The minimum wage destroys the ability of low-wage workers,
Read MoreCA chickens coming home to roost
July 23, 2012 Katy Grimes: A fourth California city is on the verge of bankruptcy. What a surprise. Yawn. The news that Compton is about to file for federal bankruptcy protection is not surprising. But news that Santa Monica may also
Read MoreSummer break is the best time of year
July 23, 2012 By John Seiler About this time of year, liberal education ideologues start talking about how bad summer break is for kids; how summer break is a leftover from when most people were farmers, and the kids were
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State parks director: negligent or incompetent?
July 20, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California State Parks agency has been sullied by a growing scandal. Three days ago I wrote about the illegal vacation buyout scandal in the State Parks and Recreation agency in “Scandalous state parks department
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