blog-April, 2010

Dems want national ID card
Friday, April 30th, 2010
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With all the protests swirling around Arizona's immigration law, why aren't there similar protests scheduled against a proposal by Democrats for a National ID card? Arizona's law, whatever one things of it, at least is confined to Arizona. But a National (Socialist) ID card would be required of eve...

Hagman wears union label
Friday, April 30th, 2010

Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R-Chino Hills, is the latest "conservative" Republican who often does the union bidding. Hagman has championed two bills that would greatly expand the disability presumption for union workers. In AB2253, he promoted the idea that if firefighters or peace officers get cance...

NFIB Holds Capitol Conference
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) held the second annual Day At The Capitol event today. What might sound like a snoozer to many, of particular note on the speaking agenda were Assembly members Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar and Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills. Both Fuentes and Hub...

Unable Abel
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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New Light Gov. Abel Maldonado is proving to be as amusing as I hoped he would be. Having provided the key vote to the record $13 billion 2009 tax increase that has slammed California's economy, unemploying tens of thousands, he naturally used his inaugural address to talk about jobs: Immediately fo...

Liberal group’s (PPIC) loaded questions
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Big surprise: A liberal-leaning think tank releases a study showing that Californians want more government spending on public education. As the Public Policy Institute of California explains in a newly released study, "As California once again confronts a multibillion dollar budget deficit, concern...

Al Gore: Your new neighbor
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Despite his environmental hysteria, Al Gore long has had one of the biggest "carbon footprints" of any mammal on the planet. A "carbon footprint" is how much carbon your existence spews into the environment. Gore already owned a massive, 20-room, eight-bedroom mansion. Bloomberg Business Week rep...

Fiorina celebrated government loans
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

... and was, apparently, a big fan of Small Business Administration affirmative action. Check out this speech from 2003. It's funny watching these liberal wealthy Republicans (Carly Fiorina, Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, for instance) all of sudden discover their inner conservatism now that they...

We’re No. 3! (in high taxes)
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

A new study ranks Taxifornia No. 3 among the 50 states in taxes. First is New Taxersey. Second is Taxesota. Taxifornia jumped from fourth place to third place. Come on, my fellow Taxifornians, we can do it! We can be No. 1! Let's raise top income tax rates to 15 percent and the sales tax to 15...

Dominy lives
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Today's LA Times carries the obituary of one Floyd Elgin Dominy, who ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Reclamation from 1959 to 1969 and lived to be 100. Dominy was the greatest builder of New Deal government work projects. He was of a time when Democrats built dams, rather than dismantle them. Glen Ca...

DGS Absent At Hearing
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The Department of General Services Director Ron Diedrich was requested to appear before today's Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review informational hearing to answer questions surrounding the 11 state properties for sale, but did not appear. His absence prompted committee chair Assembly...

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