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CA Politicians Gorging On Taxpayers

MAR. 13, 2012 Like a fat tick feasting on an unsuspecting dog, California government just grows and grows. While governments across the country are trimming budgets and tightening fiscal policies, California is doing exactly what Greece did and is borrowing

Trust This Bunch With Your Pension?

Steven Greenhut March 11, 2012

March 12, 2012 Serious people know that California faces a serious financial problem because oversized compensation packages for the state’s public employees are consuming every public dollar in sight and imposing a long-term debt on future taxpayers. Unfortunately, one won’t

Parents Should Demand Vouchers

Joseph Perkins March 8, 2012

March 8, 2012 An unnamed teacher at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard was placed on paid administrative leave this week as the Oxnard School District investigates whether she has been moonlighting as a porn actress. That followed the criminal citation

California Remedy For Eco-Guilt

Katy Grimes March 5, 2012

MAR. 5, 2012 While the Legislature has cavalierly passed global warming laws and companion legislation, they’ve done so without a clue about how the California Air Resources Board would actually achieve carbon emission reductions. It truly is a “if you

A Little Fraud to Save the Earth?

Steven Greenhut March 5, 2012

MARCH 5, 2012 If the theory of man-made global warming were such a self-obvious truth, the result of scientific consensus, then why do its advocates keep committing fraud to advance it? Even more disturbing, why are some writers willing to

From Golden State to Gambling State

Joseph Perkins March 2, 2012

March 2, 2012 The tiny Manzanita Band of Mission Indians proposes to build a ginormous “casino facility” on a 61-acre parcel of land. The tribe’s tricked-out casino will boast 2,000 slot machines and 45 gaming tables. It also will have

Governance by Boondoggle

Katy Grimes February 29, 2012

FEB. 29, 2012 The road to California’s financial recovery will be long and arduous. But a first good step is putting an end to taxpayer-financed boondoggles. We know from the collapse of the Soviet Union and other failed regimes around

Maybe Time to Let Governments Fail

Steven Greenhut February 27, 2012

FEB. 27, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT I recently documented how the state’s pro-union attorney general, Kamala Harris, crafted an unfair and dishonest title and summary for a pair of pension reform ballot initiatives submitted to her office, effectively killing the

The Dark Side of Climate Activism

Joseph Perkins February 23, 2012

Feb. 23, 2012 Peter Gleick is a fraudster. The president and co-founder of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security confessed this week that he used a stolen identity to obtain internal documents from the Heartland

State Edu-Welfare Expansion Plans

Katy Grimes February 21, 2012

FEB. 21, 2012 More than 50 percent of California college students do not pay for school at the state’s public colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the dropout rate is also about 50 percent. This is because, along with all of the free