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Welfare, housing: Clinton pragmatism still ignored by CA’s dim paleo Dems

In the late 1980s, after three straight Republican presidential wins in which GOP candidates won 133 of 150 states, the Democratic Leadership Council seized prominence in Democratic policy circles with its centrist reform agenda. Founded in 1985 by strategist Al

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Schwab the latest CA company seeking greener pastures

  Charles Schwab is shorting California. The online brokerage, a Fortune 500 corporation, announced recently it is relocating 1,000 jobs from its San Francisco headquarters to out-of-state locations. “The decision to reduce our concentration in San Francisco is based on

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‘We are destined to live with a growing and permanent underclass’

It may be building very slowly, and years later than it should have first appeared. But there is beginning to be a groundswell of a broad understanding in California that there is a link between job creation and what the

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CA Dems own state of the economy: Right, journos? Right?

Whenever President Barack Obama gets blamed for the still-mediocre condition of the national economy, his defenders in the Democratic Party, the punditocracy and in the allegedly neutral newsrooms of America immediately say things like, “He can’t get anything through Congress!

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iPads in LAUSD just small part of CA school bond scandals

The GOP assemblyman who’s upset about the misuse of 25-year borrowing to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of  iPads in Los Angeles Unified has an unfortunately narrow perspective on the problem. But at least Assemblyman Curt Hagman,

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Oil giant Occidental gushes for Houston

Maybe they’ll regret it when the heat and humidity hit next summer, but Occidental Petroleum is the latest industrial firm to leave California for Texas: “Occidental Petroleum, the longtime Los Angeles-based energy giant, announced Friday that it would move its

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CBS: Record cold ice storms = global warming

I’ve finally figured it out. CBS just ran a story blaming global warming for the record cold ice storms Back East. So, here’s what it all means: global warming = global warming global cooling = global warming climate change =

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More ‘global warming’ blizzards

As California continues to impose AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the country is inundated with snow. Only Hawaii remains entirely balmy. Today’s Drudge Report headlines: SNOW IN 49 STATES VALENTINE’S DAY RUINED… BRUTAL WINTER INTENSIFIES… NWS:

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Will AG Kamala Harris sign up for trial lawyers’ obesity shakedown?

The attorneys general of California and 15 other states are being implored to join in a legal crusade that holds food manufacturers responsible for obesity. Politico has the details: “Lawyers are pitching state attorneys general in 16 states with a

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How’s global warming going?

California continues to implement the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Here’s the latest news on the warming front from today’s Drudge Report headlines: BRUTAL WINTER INTENSIFIES HISTORIC ICE STORM UNFOLDS IN SOUTH… GEORGIA WARNED: ‘CATASTROPHIC’… SEEN FROM SPACE… NWS:

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