JAN. 1, 2012 Over the summer, the website I edit, CalWatchdog, published a series of articles documenting the way that the political Left exploited the redistricting process in California to assure strong gains for the Democratic Party. The report included an exclusive interview with a redistrict...
December, 2011Dems caught GOP flat-footedSaturday, December 31st, 2011California is a judicial ‘hellhole’Saturday, December 31st, 2011DEC. 31, 2011 George Louie is a serial litigant. The West Sacramento man’s abuse of the state’s civil justice system was recently cited by the Americans for Tort Reform Association as an example of why California ranks as the nation’s second-worst “Judicial Hellhole.” “Perhaps no o... Beware Thy Nosy NeighborThursday, December 29th, 2011 DEC. 29, 2011 We live in a state where neighbors rat-out neighbors at the behest of the government. California has turned into such a totalitarian state that friends, neighbors and family are encouraged to turn “violators” over to the cops. People have been conditioned by the government to... Freedom Will Keep Fading in 2012Monday, December 26th, 2011Dec. 26, 2011 The United States and California, in particular, are continuing down a dangerous path where more decisions about almost everything in life are made by government officials rather than by individual citizens. That's a fancy way of saying that we are losing our freedoms, slowly but su... Gravitas, Integrity and the GOPFriday, December 23rd, 2011DEC. 23, 2011 With California in political turmoil, and one-party rule inching closer to perpetuity, as 2011 comes to an end, this column has more meaning than ever. First published in October, I hope Republicans are now listening. Throughout the country, but especially in California, the medi... Pelosi and Pickens Tap Natural GasThursday, December 22nd, 2011DEC. 22, 2011 Politics, the saying goes, makes strange bedfellows. Witness the curious alliance between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, and T. Boone Pickens, the oil and gas tycoon. Both Pelosi and Pickens are urging Congress to pass the New Alternative Transpor... California Runs Schools Like DMVMonday, December 19th, 2011 DEC. 19, 2011 "Race to the Top" federal education funding California just "won" is more like "Race to Control." Students won't be helped. Instead, schools will just become more like the DMV. The grant is just another way to continue expanding the monstrosity that has become of the California e... More Lawmakers, Less Harm?Monday, December 19th, 2011Dec. 19, 2011 The approval rating for the job done by the California Legislature remains pitiful, ranging in the past year or so from a record-low 9 percent to 16 percent. That percentage of Californians would no doubt support any possible idea you place before them on a public opinion poll, whic... More Companies Flee CaliforniaSaturday, December 17th, 2011Dec. 17, 2011 Waste Connections, a Folsom-based garbage hauling and landfill company, said last week it is busting a move for Texas. Santa Barbara-based Superconductor Technologies Inc., which develops advanced superconducting wire, also confirmed this week it is leaving for the Lone Star State. ... Real Message in Brown’s ‘Open Letter’Monday, December 12th, 2011DEC. 12, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown recently released "An Open Letter to the People of California," in which he called for the state's taxpayers to approve tax-raising initiatives to "fix" the state's structural budget deficit. Here are portions of the letter and my interpretation of what Brown rea... |