February, 2012Governance by BoondoggleWednesday, February 29th, 2012 FEB. 29, 2012 The road to California’s financial recovery will be long and arduous. But a first good step is putting an end to taxpayer-financed boondoggles. We know from the collapse of the Soviet Union and other failed regimes around the world that centrally planned job creation does n... Maybe Time to Let Governments FailMonday, February 27th, 2012FEB. 27, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT I recently documented how the state's pro-union attorney general, Kamala Harris, crafted an unfair and dishonest title and summary for a pair of pension reform ballot initiatives submitted to her office, effectively killing the measures. Then, last week, the... The Dark Side of Climate ActivismThursday, February 23rd, 2012 Feb. 23, 2012 Peter Gleick is a fraudster. The president and co-founder of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security confessed this week that he used a stolen identity to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a public policy orga... State Edu-Welfare Expansion PlansTuesday, February 21st, 2012 FEB. 21, 2012 More than 50 percent of California college students do not pay for school at the state’s public colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the dropout rate is also about 50 percent. This is because, along with all of the free money for school, there are very dew academic requireme... Harris distorts democracy to aid unionsMonday, February 20th, 2012Feb. 20, 2012 We expect all sides in politics to fight hard, given the stakes involved, but our system rests on the broad acceptance of a set of fairly applied rules. We know, for instance, that no matter how nasty the coming presidential election becomes, the loser ultimately will cede power aft... CA Motorists Pay Through the HoseFriday, February 17th, 2012Feb. 17, 2012 Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential candidate, was in California this week to attend a series of campaign fund-raisers. He was provocative as usual as he spoke to supporters. He called for the impeachment or replacement of the activist U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in ... General Opposes Brown’s NomineeWednesday, February 15th, 2012 FEB. 15, 2012 California National Guard Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller has announced that she will voice her opposition to legislators today about Major General David Baldwin’s nomination to the top position of the state National Guard. Miller will testify in the Senate Rules Committee ... Transparency Best for Children’s CourtMonday, February 13th, 2012 Feb. 13, 2012 There are few things messier and more depressing than dependency court, where judges look at issues of child abuse and neglect and make decisions that can pull children from their homes and tear families asunder. These courts, and the entire children's- and family-services system... Another Black Eye for CA CleantechFriday, February 10th, 2012 FEB 10, 2012 A California company is held out as a model for the new green economy. It works its political connections in Washington to score a half-billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy from the Obama administration. It fails to deliver its much-hyped “clean energy” product. It shutters its manufa... Brown Right to Cut Women’s CommissionMonday, February 6th, 2012 FEB. 6, 2012 Any time there is a chick-fest at the Capitol, eyes roll. Last week a legislative hearing about women wasn’t the usual love fest of everything woman. This whining group was lobbying to save a state commission from budget cuts, hardly the picture of classic suffragettes. T... |