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FEB. 14, 2012 By KATY GRIMES As voters are growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare, the President’s nationalized healthcare plan, voters in California are also growing skeptical of legislators’ attempts to increase statewide healthcare. Fully implementing health care for all has drawn
Read MoreLoan Bailout Rips Off Middle Class
FEB. 13, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI In a modern version of one of Aesop’s classic fables, a whooping crane swoops down and gobbles up a frog. But the frog reaches an arm out of the crane’s mouth and grabs its
Read MoreObama Backs High-Speed Boondoggle
John Seiler: Presidents live in a cocoon. Inside the cocoon are a few advisers and Secret Service agents. The cocoon gets smaller and tighter the longer a president is in office. It happened to President Bush, who was totally clueless
Read MoreStock Market Not Helping Pension Funds
FEB. 10, 2012 By JOHN SEILER California Pension Reform just suspended its attempt to put an initiative on the November ballot. It ran out of money — sort of like the pension funds themselves. Meanwhile, the stock market seems to
Read MoreOther States Bail Out CA Mortgages
FEB. 10, 2012 By CHRISS STREET Just over a week ago I published here on CalWatchDog.com “New California Budget Crisis May Torpedo November Tax Increase Initiative.” The report illuminated how state Controller John Chaing had shocked California’s spendthrift politicians by
Read MoreOther States REPEALING Income Tax
John Seiler: California used to be a trendsetter, from boogie boards to surf music. Now it’s a retrograde state. It’s going in the wrong direction. Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing a massive income-tax hike. Others, such as leftist lawyer Molly
Read MoreCA Gov. Workers Best Paid in USA
John Seiler: Of all the 50 states, California’s government workers make the highest pay, averaging $5,774 a month in March 2010, according to U.S. Census data. That works out to $69,288 a year. Local government workers in Washington, D.C., made
Read MoreMore Taxes for Skoolz?
Commentary FEB. 7, 2012 By JOHN SEILER I’m enjoying the tiff between Gov. Jerry Brown and the other tax-increase forces in the state, in particular activist lawyer Molly Munger and the California Teachers Association. As Dan Walters notes today, Brown’s
Read MoreOccupy Squatters Don’t Know Squat
Katy Grimes: Four days ago, more than 300 Occupy protestors were arrested after breaking into Oakland’s City Hall. Demonstrators burned a U.S. flag, threw rocks and bottles at police, and tore down fencing at the convention center, and then tried
Read MoreBrown Wrong on Factory Job Loss Rate
FEB. 2, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Gov. Jerry Brown may have met his moment of infamy on a Feb 1 TV show. He said, “California is losing manufacturing jobs at a rate no faster than the rest of the
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