Steven Greenhut: Fresno School Superintendent Larry Powell has been getting the hero treatment in the national media for his reportedly selfless decision to give up his annual salary/benefits of $290,000 a year and instead take $31,000 in salary only. He's doing it for the kids, he said, to save the...
August, 2011Fresno School Chief Gets Unwarranted KudosTuesday, August 30th, 2011The Politics Of Personal DestructionTuesday, August 30th, 2011Katy Grimes: At a press conference yesterday, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, presented independent research which he says proves that the California Assembly manipulated budget numbers to make him look bad. He had Dakin Sloss with him. Sloss is the President of Stanford-based Califo... Wal-Mart’s Total Tax HypocrisyTuesday, August 30th, 2011John Seiler: The biggest corporate backer of the "Amazon tax" has been Wal-Mart. The tax was imposed as part of last June's California state budget deal. It's supposed to slam Amazon.com for not paying state sales taxes. Instead, it slammed 25,000 small businesses, "affiliates" that used Amazon's... LaMalfa’s ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ ActMonday, August 29th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Virtually the only solution that the state's Democrats ever offer is to raise taxes. They think government is too small and we need to "invest" more. Well, nothing is stopping them from investing their own money in the one thing they really love -- huge government. So Sen. Doug LaMa... Furitani: King Of Meaningless TributesMonday, August 29th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Assemblyman Warren Furitani, D-Los Angeles, gave yet another rambling, ethnic-minded tribute today in his support for some incomprehensible resolution honoring Pacific Islanders. I learned from his talk that Pacific Islanders are not just football players and that many of them have ... Pol Pot Runs CA Government SchoolsMonday, August 29th, 2011John Seiler: Make sure you read Katy Grimes' new column on government schools, below. It's about the vast decline of California's government schools into egalitarian madness. Not much surprises me anymore, especially government actions. But I gasped when I read this part: "And the latest e... Lieu Bill Would Assault The PoorFriday, August 26th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, is something of the ultimate Nanny Stater, a man who can find no apparent area of life where government should not intrude. In the name of helping reunite people with their lost pets, Lieu introduced a bill, now headed to the governor, that would mandate t... Recall Gov. Jerry BrownFriday, August 26th, 2011 In the past on this site, I have appealed for recalling Gov. Jerry Brown. I wrote a new appeal for the California Political Review. Here it is, below. And in case you're wondering, I also repeatedly wrote for recalling Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. -- J.S. By John Seiler California Republicans ... |