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Back to homepageWater plan threatens taxpayers, environment
April 14, 2013 By Steven Greenhut In Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed: “The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular.” We can all think of
Read MoreAttack of the artificial crises
March 25, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Not many of my friends or neighbors are sitting on pins and needles, worrying that the world as we know it will end as the federal government “slashes” spending as part of the
Read MoreScandal ‘boring’? Arrogant Jerry Brown drinks his own Kool-Aid
Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed Sacramento is still buzzing over a bizarre and obnoxious scandal in which state parks officials hid $54 million while pressing to close 70 parks, and along comes another scandal in which Cal Fire hides
Read MoreCalifornia a model for other states?
Feb. 3, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — California’s modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they’ve had in taming the state’s budget deficit, thanks to Proposition 30‘s tax increases and other “reforms,” and now are championing the
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 MoreDo they really want to combat global warming?
Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Nowadays, almost anything that happens is blamed on “global warming.” Or its more recent euphemism, “climate change.” On his blog, Al Gore just wrote: “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a
Read MoreCalifornia: The Honey Boo Boo state
Oct. 29, 2012 By Laer Pearce If the latest polling from the Los Angeles Times/USC from October 15-21 holds true, California voters will pick Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by 14 points. Among the results of the bluest of the blue states, California’s
Read MoreIn the spirit of ‘Animal Farm’: Some projects are more ‘worthwhile’ than others
By Chris Reed Sept. 21 The difference between the federal government’s go-slow-or-is-it-no-go approach on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the let’s-get-it-done push for the first segment of the California bullet train is instructive, in that in both cases we
Read MoreWill Gov. Brown kill self-driving cars as threat to bullet train?
Sept. 13 By Chris Reed Gov. Jerry Brown gave another hallucinatory endorsement to the bullet-train project in a weekend interview on CNN, depicting the plan as necessary for California’s future. But the growing, glowing reports about the incredible promise offered by
Read MoreBrown’s ‘Denier’ website forced to remove fallacious chart
Aug. 21, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Science is on nobody’s side in the contentious debate about “global warming.” That is because you can find data on either side of the argument to prove or disprove whatever you want, just as
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