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Katy Grimes: Another ridiculous bill is traveling through the Legislature which would kill more small businesses in California because Big Brother wants you to lose weight. AB 727 authored by Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, would require 50 percent of the
Read MoreNew help for CA whistleblowers
K. Lloyd Billingsley: The Sacramento Bee has been vigilant on the public-employee pension issue and has now come to the aid of embattled whistleblowers. On July 3 the Bee’s associate editor Ginger Rutland broke the story of program analyst Scott
Read MoreBill would hike public pay more
Steven Greenhut: To provide an idea of the utter cluelessness of California’s majority Democrats, one need only look at AB 455, which passed the Senate on a party line vote on Tuesday. As the bill analysis explains, the legislation “Requires,
Read More1,400 Workers in $200,000 Club
John Seiler: How would you like to make $200,000 a year? Join the California government. State budget and deficit problems? Let somebody else worry about it. Controller John Chiang just released the salary list for the state’s top moneybags. Names
Read MoreSubsidizing A Broke Sacramento
Katy Grimes: Sacramento is living proof that the left hand doesn’t know what the other left hand is doing. Forget the right hand – there is no “right” in Sacramento. Despite the city’s $60 million deficit, city officials and several
Read MoreNo Tax Increase – State Still Standing
John Seiler: Here we are, five days into the new fiscal year. No tax increase was imposed. Instead, on July 1, we got some tax cuts here in California. That’s the spirit! The spirit of the 1776 tax revolt and
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Bureaucrats Destroy CA Homes
John Seiler: Property rights aren’t just for big companies, which can hire lawyers to defend themselves. Property rights are for the “little people” whom government easily can assault. The L.A. Weekly produced a new video showing how L.A. County bureaucrats
Read MoreYes! Split California in Two
John Seiler: Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone advocates something I long have backed: Split California in two. Let Gov. Jerry “Jobs Killer” Brown, the nutty Democratic Legislature, the government employee unions and others following the North Korean political philosophy have
Read MoreGovt. Stockholm Syndrome Strikes
John Seiler: You’ve probably heard of Stockholm Syndrome, where hostage victims end up identifying with the hostage takers. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a real paradoxical psychologicalphenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their
Read MoreHonest, Painful Budget Finalized
Katy Grimes: By lunch time today, Gov. Jerry Brown finished signing the rest of the budget bills reducing state spending by an additional $15 billion, and creating a $500,000 million reserve. Without a news conference or any pomp and circumstance,
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