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John Seiler: What economic recovery? Of the Top 10 worst cities for unemployment in the United States, eight were in California: El Centro, Calif. 26.8 percent unemployed Yuma, Ariz. 23.1 Merced, Calif. 18.7 Yuba City, Calif. 18.1 Visalia-Porterville, Calif. 16.2
Read MoreScience: Time to Freeze AB 32
JAN. 31, 2012 By CHRISS STREET California’s wildly expensive AB 32, Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, is supposed to prevent man-made global warming. AB 32 took effect Jan. 1 — just in time for it to suffer another devastating scientific
Read MoreCARB, Nichols Ignore Global COOLING
John Seiler: In California, everything is upside down. On Friday, the California Air Resources Board clicked its jackboots and ordered one in seven Calfornia cars to be “ultra clean” by 2025. That means “battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell and plug-in
Read MoreBureaucracy Could Jack Up Water Rates
JAN. 23, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Are babies being damaged by too much perchlorate in the water? Should the amount be reduced by a mouthful of a bureaucracy, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, part of the California Environmental Protection
Read MoreBring Back Real Cars!
John Seiler: In the government’s obsessive project to treat us all like prison inmates, it has destroyed the great cars America once produced. Except for pollution controls — which were done stupidly anyway — all government controls on cars amount
Read MoreInternet Shoots Down Censorship
John Seiler: Sometimes you win one. This week, the Good Guys won a Big One. Hollywood’s attempt to censor the Internet went down in flames like a Luftwaffe jet fighter shot down by the American “Red Tails” in the new
Read MoreNew Social Divide Slams CA, Budget
JAN. 20, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The recent capsizing of the Carnival Cruise Lines ship Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy is symbolic of both Italy’s and California’s inability to continue to fund welfare states. A lack of “social
Read MoreSocialized Health Care Back From Grave
JAN. 19, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS Like a bad horror movie in which the monster dies only to come back from the grave, socialized medicine has once again reared its ugly head in California. Not content to wait for Obamacare
Read MoreDeVore Thriving in Free Texas
John Seiler: People keep fleeing repressive California — with its hereditary Dear Leader, Kim Jong Brown — for the free state of Texas. One of the latest was Chuck DeVore, formerly a California assemblyman and candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Read MoreUC Imposes PC Smoking Ban
John Seiler: Even though it’s advertised as a health measure, smoking bans actually are Politically Correct posturing. They say, “I’m better than you. You’re a working-class schlub for smoking. I’m an elitist, over-educated, Politically Correct snob. Stop enjoying yourself.” You
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