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Back to homepageJerry Brown on Bill Clinton
“If Clinton didn’t exist, the Trilateral Commission would have to invent him because he has deprived and drained the radical energy out of environmental movements, out of the African American civil rights community, by just being there and being not
Read MoreState tax receipts down sharply
March 31, 2010 By JOHN SEILER A new study by the U.S. Census Bureau found that the tax receipts of the California state government dropped 13.9 percent. That was fifth highest of the states, with the higher states being: Alaska
Read MoreAmateur Carly
I was perusing a Web attack ad by Carly Fiorina: Boxer and Campbell both Supported the Gas Tax Boxer and Campbell are both Wrong for California But at the top of the Web page — the part above where it
Read MoreLegal pot plan faces strong opposition
March 22, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a long puff on a joint, throws his head back and smiles as he slowly exhales. The scene is from “Pumping Iron,” the documentary on the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, which
Read MoreSo much courage, so few solutions
March 22, 2010 When people ask why I moved to Sacramento to write about California’s notoriously dysfunctional government, I say that in the next two or three years, the government here is likely to (figuratively) crash and burn, and as
Read MoreCourage, Under Fire
Seriously people — and don’t think we don’t know who you are — you should be following CalWatchdog on Twitter. This is a good thing, and absurdly easy to do. Just go to our Twitter page and click “Follow” or
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The GOP's Valium Convention
By all accounts, the California Republican Party’s just-ended convention in Santa Clara was a downer. The Democrats must have spiked the hotel’s water with Valium. Republicans should go see Dr. Leo Marvin, Ph.D., the famous psychologist and author of the
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Why didn't GOP oppose Arnold in 2006?
John Myers notes that the California Republican convention in Santa Clara this weekend included a fulsome denunciation of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: SANTA CLARA — Leave it to Tom McClintock, long the favorite son of the California Republican Party, to
Read MoreGOP convention fur flies
March 13, 2010 By BRIAN CALLE The fur is flying at the Santa Clara Hyatt for the California Republican Party’s 2010 Spring Convention, almost literally. It has been an eventful couple of days so far at the CRP with new
Read MorePoizner speaks on water, unions, immigration
I’m listening to Steve Poizner speak to the GOP convention in Santa Clara. He points to the state’s economy and the level of misery here caused by unemployment and underemployment. Where are the jobs going? He points to Nevada, where
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