Tag "Jerry Brown"
Back to homepageThey just don’t get it…
May 16, 2012 By John Seiler “Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” said T.S. Eliot. Nowdays, of course, American university professors brand him a “sexist” because he didn’t say “peoplekind.” “Human” implies “man,” which excludes “woman,” and so is sexist.
Read MoreWalter Russell Mead calls Calif. a ‘failed state’
May 15, 2012 By John Seiler One centrist Democrat I’ve read for years is Walter Russell Mead. He writes the Via Meadea blog for the American Interest. The name is a pun on several levels: his name, mead the beverage,
Read MoreBullet Trains, Green Jobs and ‘The War Between Data and Storytelling’
May 15, 2012 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO — The smug, insufferably superior politics of the faculty lounge have gone mainstream on the Left in the past decade to the point where many “progressive” pundits and Democratic lawmakers openly act
Read MoreHas Jerry Brown’s budget deficit become a cliche?
May 15, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Has California’s legendary structural budget deficit evolved into an overworked and obsolescent cliche? This is a question to be asked of Gov. Jerry Brown announcement yesterday that the state general fund budget deficit has
Read MoreNew Brown budget pushes tax increases
May 14, 2012 By Brian Calle Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies, in predictable fashion, are using California’s latest $16 billion budget black hole as a tool to justify big tax hikes. Brown did so today in presenting the May
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Brown’s new budget attacks producers
May 14, 2012 By John Seiler Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revise to his 2012-13 budget proposal, released today, only will club more producers into leaving the state. It calls for $8.5 billion in tax increases from the initiative he is
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Brown’s budget video address
The following video address was given by Gov. Jerry Brown to explain his new budget and call for tax increases. Note that he says the second budget from last year, the one he signed, was an improvement in ending budget
Read MoreTossing in the conservative towel
May 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes Since yesterday was Mother’s Day and all about me, I’ve decided that I want to get up every morning and be happy. I realized that it was time to toss in the conservative towel
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