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Back to homepageBlackout Shows CA Is Third World
FEB. 15, 2012 By JOHN SEILER More evidence California has descended into Third World status: Yesterday evening I sat in the dark in my apartment for two and a half hours as a blackout blanketed Huntington Beach. The Orange County
Read More‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’
John Seiler: The keystone of economic and technological growth in California for the next century is AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It was signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with great fanfare. And it has
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 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
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Our Budding Young Scholars…
John Seiler: America spends something like $400 billion a year on K-12 public-school education. That’s $400,000,000,000.00. Here’s the result: Feb. 9, 2012
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Time to Privatize Marriage
John Seiler: Aren’t you sick of the Marriage Wars? In the latest development a court — who cares which one — upheld the decision of a lower court — who cares which one — that same-sex couples have a “right”
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China stiffs EU on carb tax; CA next?
John Seiler: China isn’t going to let a bunch of stuffy Eurocrats stifle its economic progress. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, “China has banned its airlines from paying charges on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union, state media reported Monday.
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
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