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The devil and Jerry Brown quote tax scriptures for own purposes

Aug. 3, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi On August 2, California Gov. Jerry Brown erroneously invoked the following passage from the Christian New Testament in support of his proposed package of tax increases under Proposition 30 on the November ballot: “For

Fund transfers are purging earmarks from state budget

CalWatchdog Staff August 1, 2012

Aug. 1, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Is the scandal over the State Parks Director Ruth Coleman hiding $54 million in plain sight in a special fund account beginning to make the public aware of all the political earmarks in the

Paint it Blackout: Will India-type power crashes hit Calif.?

CalWatchdog Staff August 1, 2012

Aug. 1, 2012 By John Seiler India is being hit with a series of blackouts that have crippled the country. It sounds a lot like California dipped in curry. From The Economist: * India has “blackouts (during peak hours the

Southern Califiornia’s new pact with the Delta water devil

CalWatchdog Staff July 30, 2012

July 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi If you dine with the Sacramento Delta water devil, you better have a long spoon. That might be the lesson that Southern California should have learned after being stuck with a $283 million bill

I turned on the spigot and an ‘Occupy Park’ poured out

CalWatchdog Staff July 26, 2012

July 26, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi LOS ANGELES — Most people admit that they don’t know much about California’s water system or local tiered water rates. Except that when they turn on the spigot at their home the water pours

How California made liquid smog

CalWatchdog Staff July 25, 2012

July 25, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi How did a 1996 Federal Environmental Protection Agency “mandate” to clean up smog result in the California Energy Crisis of 2001 and the “wet drought” from 2007 to 2010? This is a question that

Sustainability ideology invented a stagnant California Dream

CalWatchdog Staff July 23, 2012

July 23, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi When did the California Dream begin? Peter Huck, a refugee journalist from Los Angeles to New Zealand, has an answer. He writes in the July 20 issue of the New Zealand Herald newspaper “Sustainability

Cal ISO focuses on Enron 2, not Cap & Trade manipulation

CalWatchdog Staff July 20, 2012

July 20, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A rerun is playing on TV of the inaccurate 2005 “documentary” movie, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” about Enron manipulating the California Electricity Crisis of 2001. It features Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and

Court rules greenies told a whopper of a smelt fish story

CalWatchdog Staff July 19, 2012

July 19 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Mark Twain once wrote: “Don’t tell fish stories where people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” The farmers in the California Central Valley know that environmentalists have been

Eminent domain mass delusion hits San Berdoo

CalWatchdog Staff July 16, 2012

July 16, 2012 by Wayne Lusvardi A few hundred years ago there was the famous Dutch Tulip Mania of 1637. It was followed by the South Sea Bubble of 1711 and the Mississippi Company Bubble of 1719. In modern times,