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Fahrenheit 78
John Seiler: Today, January 17, the Year of Our Lord 2011, in Huntington Beach it was Fahrenheit 78 degrees, the most beautiful day I’ve ever seen. It was July in January. That’s why we Californians put up with the sky-high
Read MoreSounds Like California
John Seiler: Wikileaks’ recent release of a cable from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia supposedly led to the downfall of that country’s government. The cable actually looks like it could have been written about the government of another state enjoying
Read MoreWalters: California Stagnating
John Seiler: CalWatchDog.com has been online now a little more than a year. If there’s one theme we’ve had, it’s that California is stagnating due to too much regulation, taxation and general foolishness by an out-of-touch government. For example, here’s
Read MoreMexican View of Government
John Seiler: We can learn about government from our Mexican friends just across the border. Millions of them now live here in California, as well as the rest of the USA. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that Mexico’s
Read MoreHigher Gas Prices
John Seiler: Ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposals bore as much relation to reality as one of the scripts for his science-fiction movies. Even as the economy was tanking, his budget proposals, like his muscles, were pumped up with steroids. The
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It's Illegal to Doubt Global Warming
John Seiler: A little-known codicil of AB 32 makes it illegal to question the existence of global warming or AB 32 itself. AB 32 is the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, signed into law by since-departed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Read MoreTough Talk Can't Hide Tax/Spend Budget
JAN. 11, 2011 By JOHN SEILER In his Jan. 3 Inaugural Address, Gov. Jerry Brown promised us a respite from the “smoke and mirrors” budgets of recent years, especially those of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. So the budget he unveiled Monday,
Read MoreBrown's Status-Quo Choices
JAN. 10, 2010 By JOHN SEILER “Personnel is policy” is a saying I heard often when I was a journalist in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s during the Reagan administration. The meaning was that, in large, complex modern organizations such
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They're Coming for Prop. 13
John Seiler: You know it would happen. They’re coming for Prop. 13, the 1978 tax-cut measure. Having overspent for decades, the California government of parasites has run up a $28 billion deficit. Jerry Brown’s new budget is expected to include
Read More2-Month Driver's License Wait
John Seiler: Remember how Arnold promised to get rid of the long lines and incompetence at the DMV? For a while, things got better. Then he went on his “Terminate California” kick, spending wildly and imposing AB 32. Here’s the
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