July 31, 2012 By John Seiler Over at Flashreport, Jon Fleischman summarized the arguments the anti-Proposition 30 campaign will be using: * If there is money to waste on high speed rail — why raise taxes? * If there is money to drop on giving raises to legislative staffers – why raise ta...
July, 2012Fleischman sketches campaign against Brown tax increaseTuesday, July 31st, 2012100 years of ‘Capitalism and Freedom’Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes As free marketeers celebrate famed Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman's 100 birthday today, revisiting Friedman’s 1979 interview with Phil Donahue, where Friedman schooled Donahue, a 1970's liberal television talk show host, on capitalism. This i... Mexico dissolves its FBI and moves to legalize drugsTuesday, July 31st, 2012 July 31, 2012 By Chriss Street In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Pena and his Institutional Revolutionary Party, who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de Investigación. Modeled after the United States' FBI, the AFI was fo... Calif. regs killing lumber manufacturersTuesday, July 31st, 2012 July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes California's private forest lands are some of the most productive in the world. But state regulation of timber harvesting practices have become so overbearing and complex that the industry is losing lumber manufacturers by the droves, production has been drasticall... Cal State’s Early Start Program sparks oppositionMonday, July 30th, 2012 July 31, 2012 By Ariel Carmona Jr. In recent years the California State University system has worked to jump-start many incoming freshmen through the controversial Early Start Program. But in the wake of the ESP, a number of educators across all CSU's 23 campuses have expressed concerns over ... San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee attacks Chick-fil-AMonday, July 30th, 2012 July 30, 2012 By John Seiler San Francisco has a reputation as a "tolerant" city, the capital of the 1967 Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury and all that. Whatever it was in psychedelic Sixties, today it's one of the most intolerant cities around. For example, on June 6, San Fran voted a whopping 74... Dominant Dems rule and ruin SactoMonday, July 30th, 2012July 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes As Democrats have taken over most of the Golden State, an ugly attitude has crept in. This bad attitude is demonstrative of what's wrong with today's Democrats, and why they get called Socialists. They think they are above the law because they now control the law. ... Southern Califiornia’s new pact with the Delta water devilMonday, July 30th, 2012 July 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi If you dine with the Sacramento Delta water devil, you better have a long spoon. That might be the lesson that Southern California should have learned after being stuck with a $283 million bill to bail out Gov. Jerry Brown’s embarrassing boondoggle in faile... Soda taxMonday, July 30th, 2012 |