May, 2012Nanny Mayor orders supersize downsizeThursday, May 31st, 2012 May 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: In the land of nanny governments, contradictions abound. In California, lawmakers have banned and taxed smoking, tried to ban plastic bags and polystyrene food containers, regulated the Happy Meal, mandated breaks and vacation time for babysitters, and even ordered fitte... Will pension reform make leg deadline?Thursday, May 31st, 2012May 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: With the budget deadline looming, the Legislature is also facing a June 1 deadline for bills to be passed out of the house of which they originate. In the Senate yesterday during floor debate over a bill to create a private sector pension program, Sen. Sam Blakeslee,... State raids tobacco tax moneyThursday, May 31st, 2012May 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: A newly released federal study reports that California has not only used very little of the billions of dollars in tobacco tax and tobacco settlement money it receives, the state has raided the tobacco fund to plug budget holes. The Centers for Disease Control and... Assembly passes bad Cap and Trade billTuesday, May 29th, 2012 May 29, 2012 Katy Grimes: The Assembly today passed the controversial Cap and Trade bill, Assembly Bill 1532, by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, which would deposit Cap and Trade carbon credit permit monies into a new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account, to be managed by the California... UC San Fran’ s hypocrisy on Prop. 29 campaign fundingFriday, May 25th, 2012May 25, 2012 By John Seiler I love this part of the political campaign, just before the election, because the candidates and special interests get desperate and start slinging mud at one another. The late, great columnist Mike Royko said that "mud-slinging" is really "truth-slinging." Consi... Prop 29 shaping up to be fiscal disasterThursday, May 24th, 2012 May 25, 2012 By Katy Grimes What do stem cell research and cancer research have in common? In California, both health causes serve as money making mechanisms for bureaucrats. Stem cell research In 2004, California voters passed the stem cell initiative, Proposition 71, which authoriz... How many ways can voters say ‘no’ to tax hikes?Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012May 23, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California city which has been trying to force a new professional sports arena on its tapped-out taxpayers is now asking for a sales-tax increase. But even more egregious than the tax increase push is the poll commissioned by Sacramento's City Manager Joh... Scott Baugh’s Continuing HypocrisyMonday, May 21st, 2012 May 21, 2012 By Steven Greenhut If you wonder why the GOP is having such hard times, one need only look at the goings-on in Orange County, where Republican Party Chairman Scott Baugh is pulling out all the stops to ensure the election to the board of supervisors of Todd Spitzer, the former Ass... More liberal prattle: “We’re all one”Monday, May 21st, 2012 May 21, 2012 By Katy Grimes Too much liberal drivel in today’s newspapers passes for news as well as journalism. Gone is most of the hard news, replaced by front page human-interest stories and social welfare issues. This prattle is written by pushover cream puffs, who want everyone t... Good 1% vs. bad 1%Monday, May 21st, 2012YouTubes like this give me hope that young folks are figuring out what's going on. After all, they're the ones on the hook for the $16 trillion federal debt, $1 trillion in their own college debt and numerous other debts. And Social Security and Medicare will be broke long before they even turn 40. ... |