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Back to homepageColorado recall election a template for reclaiming liberty
June 11, 2013 By Katy Grimes The historic recall election underway in Colorado of Senate President John Morse is shaping up to be a template for other grassroots groups unhappy with elected officials. Morse is facing a recall for his support
Read MoreReinflating debate about suburbia
June 10, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices through the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they
Read MoreNow FL Gov. targets CA businesses
June 5, 2013 By Joseph Perkins First came Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Then Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Now Florida Gov. Rick Scott is taking aim at California, reportedly considering leasing billboard space in selected markets
Read MoreBills would remove doctors from abortion process
June 4, 2013 By Katy Grimes While other states have been passing laws restricting when a woman can have an abortion, for several years California politicians have been trying to move legislation in the other direction. Taking up efforts defeated last year,
Read MoreAddicted to scare tactics
June 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — “As many as 100,000 crack babies are born every year,” reported the Los Angeles Times in an overheated 1990 article echoing the results of a Department of Health and Human Services study.
Read MorePowerful CA unions pushing ‘fair share health care’
May 29, 2013 By Katy Grimes Labor unions are on the attack and using the legislative process to take down Walmart and other non-union businesses using the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare A bill aimed at forcing large non-union
Read MoreIRS: the heart of big government
May 27, 2013 By Steven Greenhut It’s hard to believe, but the current tax scandal will eventually fade away just as all Washington, D.C. scandals run their course. It’s easier to believe that the IRS will remain a loathsome and
Read MoreObama scandals reveal true govt.
May 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP
Read MoreBill advances ‘civil rights’ claims on gender-neutral bathrooms
May 16, 2013 By Katy Grimes As if plucked right out of the silly book, “There Oughta Be A Law,” San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has been pushing a bill through the Legislature which has the potential of turning all
Read MoreFreedom safer than regulations
May 13, 103 By Steven Greenhut California and Texas officials have been having an ongoing tit-for-tat over which of the nation’s two mega-states is the better place to live and do business — something that has become a proxy issue
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