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Back to homepageProp. 30 tax increase now winning
11:21 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler With 37.7 percent of precincts now reporting, Prop 30 now is winning, 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent. Looks like Gov. Jerry Brown got his tax increase. Too bad it’s going to kill
Read MoreEarly voting: Too close on major Calif. propositions
10:06 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler It’s too early to call the major state initiatives. Looks like it’ll be a long night. According to the Secretary of State’s Web site, just 19.1 percent of the vote has been
Read MoreLiberal Republican Romney loses
8:21 pm, Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler The networks are calling the Obama victory, which I’ve been predicting for months. As I’ve been telling everybody, Romney is a liberal Republican whose positions are almost the same as the liberal
Read MoreWe’ll be live-blogging the election
Nov. 6, 2012 By John Seiler We’ll be live-blogging the election beginning around 5 pm, if that’s when the East Coast returns start coming in. And at 8 pm, the California returns will start to come in. Stay tuned. Personally,
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I can’t wait for this election to be over
Nov. 2, 2012 By John Seiler Just four more day to D-Day — Democracy Day. Then this dreadful election finally will be over. If the ancient Greeks could have seen how things would have turned out, instead of inventing democracy,
Read MoreDo they really want to combat global warming?
Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Nowadays, almost anything that happens is blamed on “global warming.” Or its more recent euphemism, “climate change.” On his blog, Al Gore just wrote: “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a
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Archie Bunker explains the election
Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Back in the late 1970s, with a previous bogus energy “crisis” striking, and Democrats demanding that citizens make “sacrifices,” philosopher Archie Bunker explained what was going in words that still resonate today.
Read MoreThis could be fun
Oct. 28, 2012 By John Seiler It looks like Proposition 30 is going down to defeat. So what I’m looking forward to is Gov. Jerry Brown going into a meltdown when his pet prop loses. He could rail against the
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Hollywood says: Tax cuts spur growth
Oct. 27, 2012 By John Seiler Hollywood usually backs left-wing causes, such as tax increases and politicians who increase taxes. For example, Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand are big fans of President Obama. They agree with him that tax increases
Read MoreNewspapers opine on the 11 propositions
Oct. 26, 2012 By John Seiler The Nooner site on California politics has compiled a nifty grid with all the newspaper editorial-page opinions on the 11 propositions. Click on the Y or N for the link to each individual editorial.
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