blog-April, 2010

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...

Chron: Lawmakers turning against building sell-off
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Cap Weekly: Minimum wage and the budget fight
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

LAT: Public employee pensions causing problems
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Cap Weekly: Poizner’s book given away for free
Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Mixed results from local crackdowns
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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APRIL 29, 2010 By JT LONG An uneasy partnership that includes local police and sheriff officers in enforcement of immigration laws, may not be working as planned, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General. According to the March 2010 rep...

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...

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