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Back to homepagePlantronics sending employees to Mexico
Jan. 14, 2013 By John Seiler For 15 years I’ve used Plantronics’ great headsets with Dragon Naturallyspeaking and Skype. The company will keep about 500 jobs in Santa Cruz, but is sending 41 to Mexico, where 2,000 already are located:
Read MoreAnother business thinking of leaving CA
Jan. 14, 2013 By John Seiler Despite assurances to the contrary from Gov. Jerry Brown and others, his Proposition 30 tax increase will drive thousands more businesses from this state. He and President Obama insist that such people must “pay
Read MoreMiddle class is Shocked! Shocked! at tax increase
Jan. 13, 2013 By John Seiler Wait! Weren’t the tax increase supposed to hit only the rich? President Obama, Gov. Jerry Brown and thousands of Democratic politicians insisted that the wealthy must “pay their fair share.” Democratic friends of mine
Read MoreHow about nobody for the Legislature?
Jan. 11, 2013 By John Seiler After Major League Baseball just decided to elect nobody to its Hall of Fame, Jay Leno quipped, “Why can’t we do this with the congressional elections?” My follow-up: Why can’t we do this with
Read MoreDan Morain disses Tom McClintock
Jan. 10, 2013 By John Seiler In my decades of reporting, I’ve met few public officials with the integrity of Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Eldorado Hills. In more than two decades in the Legislature, he was the only one who consistently
Read MoreCalSTRS moves to increase your taxes
Jan. 10, 2013 By John Seiler The California State Teachers Retirement System just moved to increase your taxes. They didn’t do so directly, but that will be the result. Because when CalSTRS investments don’t grow fast enough, by law taxpayers
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Why we need gun rights…
Jan. 8, 2013 By John Seiler Here’s why we need gun rights. And why gun control, including that proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and President Obama, would leave us defenseless before violent criminals.
Read MoreIs the Tea Party finished?
Jan. 8, 2013 By John Seiler Tony Quinn just wrote happily of the demise of the Tea Party. Which never had much power in California anyway. He said that, without them, Republicans might have grabbed control of the U.S. Senate in
Read MoreRon Paul blasts ‘fiscal cliff’ deal scam
Jan. 5, 2013 By John Seiler He’s no longer in office, but the greatest congressman in American history still is telling like it is. Here’s Ron Paul on the fraud “fiscal cliff” deal imposed on us by the scamsters of
Read More‘Fiscal cliff’ deal costs California $45 million from death tax
Jan. 4, 2013 By John Seiler Even death is not being kind to the California budget. According to the Bee: “Because Congress permanently killed an estate tax transfer to states this week, California stands to lose $45 million in inheritance tax
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