September, 2011Liberal Elites Lavish ObamaWednesday, September 28th, 2011 SEPT. 28, 2011 Tinseltown. Swimming pools. Movie stars. On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama has been unsuccessfully promoting himself as a “warrior” for the middle class. So a lavish fundraising trip to Hollywood must have been a welcome diversion from all of the Flyover Country... Brown’s Phony Reg ‘Reduction’Wednesday, September 28th, 2011John Seiler: Jerry Brown snookered a Mercury News reporter -- and a lot of other people -- when the governor signed into law two bills that supposedly loosen environmental regulations. "We're going to protect the environment, but we're also going to do it in a practical way. There are too damn ma... Ethically Challenged Funds Push Diversity!Wednesday, September 28th, 2011SEPT. 28, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT The nation's two largest pension funds, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), have been plagued by problems and allegations of mismanagement and even corruption in the case ... SCAG Despotism Thwarts DemocracyWednesday, September 28th, 2011 SEPT. 28, 2011 By ROY REYNOLDS Democracy means representative government. The opposite is SCAG -- the Southern California Association of Governments. In a May Fountain Valley Patch online column, I wrote, “It's complicated enough when our hierarchical government structure (city, cou... Privatize the University of CaliforniaWednesday, September 28th, 2011 John Seiler: The University of California suffered more controversy in recent weeks on two campuses. Yesterday, as Katy Grimes reported, conservative students at UC Berkeley mocked über-political correctness and racial and other quotas at the school and in the state. The students held a "bake s... CA ‘Becoming Post-Industrial Hell’Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 SEPT. 28, 2011 By JOHN SEILER A new economic forecast released today warns, "California is fast becoming a post-industrial hell for almost everyone except the gentry class, their best servants and the public sector." The forecast is from the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at Ca... Berkeley Hosts Affirmative Action Bake-OffTuesday, September 27th, 2011 SEPT. 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Despite a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from granting educational or employment preferences to individuals based on race, the California Legislature recently passed a bill to require state colleges and universities to use race in admission... 2 Californians in Top 10 Richest in CongressTuesday, September 27th, 2011 SEPT. 27, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Two Californians made The Hill's latest list of Top Ten richest members of Congress: Republican Rep. Darrell Issa and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Altogether, five Californians made the Top 50 list. The list is one of those tedious things you have to click... Brown Continues Attack on JobsTuesday, September 27th, 2011 John Seiler: Gov. Jerry Brown remains unfazed by California's accelerating economic decline. He seems to think that the whole state is like Silicon Valley, producing jobs by the thousand and billionaires by the dozen. He signed a Republican bill that increases fees -- that is, taxes -- "on the... Brown’s Government Expansion ProjectMonday, September 26th, 2011SEPT. 26, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Many in the state say that Gov. Jerry Brown has demonstrated a propensity for doing things his way, even if it means bucking his own party. But what Brown really has shown a gift for is expanding government. Faced with 600 potential new laws sent to him in ... |