Politics and Elections
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Jan. 10, 2013 By Chris Reed The 2013-14 budget that Jerry Brown presents today is being billed by the Los Angeles Times as transformative for its push to change school funding basics to help schools with struggling students who don’t
Read MoreDan Morain disses Tom McClintock
Jan. 10, 2013 By John Seiler In my decades of reporting, I’ve met few public officials with the integrity of Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Eldorado Hills. In more than two decades in the Legislature, he was the only one who consistently
Read MoreFracking coverage: Still more flagrant, fragrant lies
Jan. 9, 2013 By Chris Reed California’s potential for an enormous natural gas/oil boom if hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — is allowed to free up our vast natural gas and oil reserves means we should pay close attention to the
Read MoreIs the Tea Party finished?
Jan. 8, 2013 By John Seiler Tony Quinn just wrote happily of the demise of the Tea Party. Which never had much power in California anyway. He said that, without them, Republicans might have grabbed control of the U.S. Senate in
Read MoreSportswriter who libeled Thomas Sowell offers lame excuse
Jan. 7, 2013 By Chris Reed Last week, a prominent Los Angeles-based sportswriter for Fox Sports libeled California’s leading African-American libertarian/conservative thinker, Thomas Sowell of Stanford’s Hoover Institution. This wasn’t just another stupid media flap to me. When I read
Read MoreSchwarzenegger still in marketing mode, selling myths
Jan. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed One of the staples of modern journalism is the piece in which a famous figure is asked to expound on his favorite books or music. With music, answers often seem genuinely enthusiastic. With books,
Read MoreJust who wants to “take back America”?
Jan. 4, 2013 By John Seiler Last week I noted that Sam Donaldson attacked the Tea Partiers for their slogan, “We ought to take back our country.” Actually, I noted, they just didn’t want to keep paying massive taxes to
Read MoreL.A. sportswriter likens Thomas Sowell to house slave
Jan. 3, 2013 By Chris Reed A high-profile Los Angeles-based African-American sportswriter took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to compare Thomas Sowell of Stanford’s Hoover Institution to the house slave character in Quentin Tarantino’s new film “Django Unchanged.” Sowell, 82,
Read MoreArnold as U.S. transportation secretary? Talk about karma!
Jan. 2, 2013 By Chris Reed A little more than a year ago, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood surprised the inside-the-Beltway set by telling a Chicago reporter who asked if he would come back for a second Obama term that
Read MorePeople I don’t want to hear from in 2013
Jan. 1, 2012 By Katy Grimes As I was reflecting back on 2012 last evening right before midnight, I realized that the events of the year were made to happen by people – we cannot think about the good and
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