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Been reading Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its Quest to Spread, Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by my good friend and former colleague Nick Schou. It’s a colorful, endlessly interesting book about a band of
Read MoreObamacare and California
On Sunday evening, two days after Obamacare was passed, I came down with food poisoning. So far, Obamacare hasn’t helped me at all. What happened? Wasn’t The One supposed to cure all our ailments? Seriously, Obamacare is going to hit
Read MoreWhitman to sing Kumbaya
Maybe the headline is an exaggeration, but Meg Whitman’s proposal to create legislative teams, which she enunciated at a California Taxpayers Association meeting today, is almost as bad of an idea than singing Kumbaya with assembled legislators. According to the
Read MoreBizarre workers comp scam alleged
It’s common for law-enforcement officials to spike their pensions by claiming disabilities toward the end of their career. The Sacramento Bee reported on what is known as Chief’s Disease — at one point 82 percent of high-ranking California Highway Patrol
Read MoreImportant government hearings
In case you were assuming that our legislators are working on the state’s broken budget, the following is from today’s Senate Daily File and is a Governmental Organization committee hearing: GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION WRIGHT, Chair 9:30 a.m. – John L. Burton Hearing
Read MoreAB 32 Cap-And-Trade Auction Tax
An auction tax is one of the proposed methods for allocating permits to California companies and public agencies subject to the AB 32 cap-and-trade program under preparation by the California Air Resources Board. Thomas Tanton, Principal of T2 & Associates and Senior Fellow with
Read MoreState Employees: Calling Out The Cheaters
As a reporter for Cal Watchdog rooting out waste, abuse and fraud, I receive calls frequently from government employees wanting to tell me about the employee cheating they witness first hand in their particular government agencies by city, county, state
Read MoreCSUS AB 32 Study Attacked
The CSUS study authored by Sanjay Varshney (Dean of the College of Business Administration) and business professor Dennis Tootelian is now under attack. Why? Because in the study the refutes AB 32, global warming and green job creation as good
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Does Jerry Brown Break Campaign Law?
Sacramento talk radio host Eric Hogue discovered this very interesting audio and video of Jerry Brown meeting with Labor International Union of America and encouraging them to be the bad guys in the campaign and attack Meg Whitman, so he
Read MoreThe Happiness Factor
With a headline like that, I bet you people can’t wait to read this one. But after reading this New Yorker piece by writer Elizabeth Kolbert on how psychological research into happiness translates into public policy, I couldn’t resist writing
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