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Katy Grimes: With the Legislature’s ongoing guaranteed votes to allow California’s High Speed Rail Authority project to continue without financial analysis or ridership studies, it is apparent that High Speed Rail has become the latest New Deal-styled WPA project for
Read MoreAmazon Tax Bill Passes Assembly
John Seiler: California’s Democratic legislators are the nation’s most narrow-minded and unimaginative. In the Assembly, they just passed a bill by Charles Caleron, D-Whittier, to tax Amazon.com and other companies that currently avoid paying the state’s hefty sales tax, usually
Read MoreBee's Glaring Op Ed Omission
Katy Grimes: Martha Penry, “a special education teacher’s assistant in the Twin Rivers school district” wrote an op ed in today’s Sacramento Bee, defending the escalating and unsustainable spending on California’s public employee pensions, and even blamed “Wall Street greed” for the
Read MoreABCs Of Pot Legalization Plan
Steven Greenhut: Here’s the latest on the marijuana legalization initiative from one of its sponsors, Steve Kubby: Enclosed below is the latest version of our initiative with translations from legalese to words we can all understand. This amended version of
Read MoreGovt. Pension Crisis Gets Worse
John Seiler: An excellent article in today’s Contra Costa Times by columnist Daniel Borenstein reports that the state’s government pension crisis is even worse than we thought: IF THERE’S any hope of resolving the California public-employee pension dilemma, it must
Read MoreGovt. Worker Suicide Was Cokehead
John Seiler: Remember the government worker, Huy Pham, who jumped from a government building in Costa Mesa after he was laid off? Pro-government unions and politicians still are blaming his death on the mean City Council of Costa Mesa that
Read MoreCA GOP Should Divorce Arnold
John Seiler: Ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife, Maria, is divorcing him. California Republicans should do the same. For years, Arnold courted, then seduced Republicans. He used his superstar movie persona to trick them into trusting them. He cooed in their ears the
Read MoreFriends Remember Alan Bock
John Seiler: Our great friend Alan Bock is remembered today in The Orange County Register’s commentary section. Many friends wrote heartfelt short article about this good man’s kindness, wisdom and contributions to liberty. Two of the pieces are by my
Read MoreMemorial Day Weekend in So. Cal.
John Seiler: Forget politics for a couple of days. It’s a beautiful Memorial Day weekend in Southern California. Yesterday I took this picture of a 59 Cadillac. What a beauty. It was in front of a Bank of America in
Read MoreIn Memoriam, Alan Bock
John Seiler: Our wonderful friend Jocelyne Leger produced a beautiful video on Alan Bock, who died two weeks ago. Alan was a great fighter for liberty and the colleague of Steven Greenhut, Jocelyn and me at The Orange County Register.
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