California economy

Actual state residents would struggle to recognize Paul Krugman’s California

What is it about California that inspires such insistently cheerful happy talk from New York Times columnist/Princeton professor Paul Krugman? This spring he claimed that California was in the middle of a roaring comeback. Has he ever been here? Read

The DOW has NOT set new records

John Seiler November 20, 2013

The so-called economic recovery supposedly is shown by the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering around the 16,000 mark, the highest ever. It’s just below that number as I write. In fact, adjusted for inflation, the DJIA is the same as

Obamacare: National media finally turn on Obama — and Nancy Pelosi

Chris Reed November 19, 2013

The national media are finally done with covering up the incompetence of Barack Obama. Savor this amazing lead from Ron Fournier of National Journal, the former AP Washington bureau chief who still helps set conventional wisdom about national politics: “Incompetence,

$LAT, Sac Bee fracking coverage: Same old glaring omission$

LAT, Sac Bee fracking coverage: Same old glaring omission

Chris Reed November 16, 2013

Here we go again. On Friday, the state government released its draft fracking regulations. And while in their coverage, the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times cited environmentalists’ dire warnings about fracking, the papers once again made a gigantic

30,000-plus cancelled CA Kaiser plans hardly ‘cut-rate’

Chris Reed November 13, 2013

While the president has indirectly admitted that “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” isn’t true, his administration keeps up the deceit when it comes to other aspects of the Affordable Care Act. White House spokesman Jay

Miracle: Sacramento MSM laments California’s mass poverty

Chris Reed November 10, 2013

For months, Cal Watchdog, U-T San Diego columnist Steven Greenhut and the U-T editorial page have drawn attention to the fact that under a new measure of poverty introduced by the Census Bureau in November 2012, California has the worst

High tech may save CA, but it will definitely doom privacy

Chris Reed November 8, 2013

I’m all for technological advances. In fact, I’ve slowly come around to the wild-sounding idea that scientific breakthroughs just might save California from decline by creating so much wealth and free stuff that eventually we will live in what Slate

CA suffers highest percentage of poor

John Seiler November 7, 2013

This kind of puts a kink in Gov. Jerry Brown’s insistence that “California is back.” According to a new study by the U.S. Census Bureau, when housing is factored in, California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, at 23.8 percent.

Fracking: California should learn from Britain’s change of course

Chris Reed November 1, 2013

When it comes to green propaganda about hydraulic fracturing, it’s been a dead heat between New York state and Western Europe as to where the alarmists had the most clout. Mostly because of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s dithering and pandering, nothing

The entitlement society Halloween

Katy Grimes October 31, 2013

Perhaps because of my Gaelic Irish and Welsh heritage, I’ve always loved Halloween. Traditions from the old Celtic countries Wales, Brittany, Ireland, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, influenced today’s Halloween customs. But today’s Halloween is a wee bit different