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Legislature passes record $117 billion budget

On Monday, the California Legislature passed a $117 billion state budget on a 52-28 vote, meeting the June 15 deadline to send the bill to Governor Jerry Brown. The Legislature’s version of the budget allocates $117 billion in expenditures and

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Dr. Ben Carson talks ‘common sense’ at CPAC

March 16, 2013 By Calwatchdog.com Editors Dr. Ben Carson, joined by author Eric Metaxas, spoke at the Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) on the importance of developing and maintaining an educated populace — one with common sense. Being proactive and

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Balanced budget amendment for Congress discussed at CPAC

March 16, 2013 By Josephine Djuhana NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Some conservatives believe a federal balanced budget amendment is an essential reform for fiscal management in Congress. That was the topic of discussion during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference

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‘We are now Europe!’

Jan. 30, 2013 By Katy Grimes Rick Santelli, my favorite vociferous and opinionated financial news guru, today said that with the federal government’s release of the latest report finally showing that the economy actually shrunk in the fourth quarter last year, “We are

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