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What CA fracking advocates can learn from PA
Jan. 31, 2013 By Chris Reed As Californians begin to appreciate the immense economic potential of the state’s underground natural gas and oil reserves, the debate will sharply intensify over the safety of hydraulic fracturing — the newly refined and improved
Read MoreNot just GOP but libertarians have failed message
Dec. 27, 2012 By Chris Reed There has been lots of perfectly appropriate anguish among Republicans over their party’s failures in California and nationally. Losing to a president with a bad record has prompted vast soul-searching among GOP true believers.
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Taxpayers fund govt. agency advertisements
Dec. 21, 2012 By Katy Grimes The state of California is pushing welfare and food stamps very hard. They constantly advertise on the radio and television, and must have a huge public relations budget… paid for courtesy of taxpayers. Here’s
Read MoreNanny staters’ school lunch debacle, chapter 237
Dec. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed This Associated Press story about student uprisings against federal school-lunch rules is one more reminder of how oblivious the statist left is about how people think. Of course kids want filling meals — not
Read MoreBullet-train boondoggle yields a Cabinet-level delusion
Dec. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed A House committee hearing Thursday at which Republicans vowed to use their majority to block new federal funding for California’s bullet-train train wreck produced this astounding passage in The Washington Post: “We’re not giving
Read MoreNational microtargeting drove youth vote, not Prop. 30
Nov. 10, 2012 By Chris Reed I have interviewed Tony Quinn for my old radio shows several times and acknowledge he knows way more about California politics than I do. But he is flatly, simply wrong when he writes the
Read More2012’s October surprise: Media’s decision to ignore Benghazi lies
Nov. 6, 2012 By Chris Reed As a libertarian who still seethes over Newt Gingrich’s and George W. Bush’s betrayal of small-government conservatism, I have tons of issues with the modern Republican Party. But I have to say the GOP
Read MoreRomney coattails? In California? Maybe
Oct. 23, 2012 By Chris Reed After Barack Obama’s 61% to 37% wipeout of John McCain in California in 2008, we were spared the quadrennial tradition of some senior Republican peddling the idea that the GOP had a chance at
Read MoreWhere are the jobs, jobs, jobs?
Oct. 7, 2012 Katy Grimes: Friday morning the latest monthly jobs reportwas released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “The unemployment rate decreased to 7.8 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Read MoreThe California roots of Obama calling government spending ‘investments’
Oct. 4, 2012 By Chris Reed Last night, when President Obama repeatedly described government spending as “investments,” no one batted an eyelash. This is how Democrats now talk. But few are aware of the California roots of this linguistic gambit.
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