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... Newsom attacks property rightsSunday, July 29th, 2012 July 30, 2012 By John Seiler Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, trying to conjure up something useful from his worthless job, has positioned himself supposedly as a "pro-business" Democrat. He even went to Texas to say how the Golden State could learn something about jobs creation from the Lone Star State... Video: John Lott dissects two gun control fanaticsSunday, July 29th, 2012July 30, 2012 By John Seiler In the following YouTube, America's top gun scholar, John Lott, faces off against two gun-control fanatics who hardly let him get in a word edgewise. One is host Piers Morgan, who like a lot of Brit expatriates thinks America would be a fantastic country if it beca... Kiss a Democrat if you’re outta workFriday, July 27th, 2012 July 26, 2012 By Katy Grimes I remember when Democrats were all about supporting hard working men and women. So were Republicans, but it was Democrats who were more closely associated with the working class. And that's the rub; Democrats no longer support the working class because they ... S.F.’s hypocrisy on waterThursday, July 26th, 2012 July 26, 2012 By John Seiler Our colleague Steven Greenhut just wrote for Bloomberg on San Francisco's hypocrisy on water. Read the whole thing here. Key graphs: "Consider their response after a group called the Yosemite Restoration Campaign collected enough signatures to put a measure on t... Obama’s General Motors bailout still ripping us offThursday, July 26th, 2012 July 26, 2012 By John Seiler One reason the American economic "recovery" is so weak is that, when General Motors went bankrupt in 2009, President Obama stole the company's assets from bondholders to give to the UAW union. Yes, he did steal them. In long-established bankruptcy law in America... Getting cable and watching the political animalsThursday, July 26th, 2012 July 26, 2012 By John Seiler I've always been reluctant to get cable TV because it's a big time waste. The Internet and a land-line phone are all I need, through Verizon's FIOS fiberoptic system. Plus a cheap T-Mobile flip cell and a VCR-DVD player on which the DVD broke. But I wanted to upgr... Gadfly Radio broadcasts perspective on Anaheim riots, state schoolsWednesday, July 25th, 2012 July 25, 2012 By John Seiler Check out Gadfly Radio's latest broadcast. Featured first is Gustavo Arellano, ace reporter for the OC Weekly, on the riots in Anaheim that followed the police shooting death of an unarmed man. The second guest is Larry Sand, talking about education reform. Mart... El Monte might tax fat kidsWednesday, July 25th, 2012 July 25, 2012 By John Seiler In the great Clint Eastwood Western "The Outlaw Josie Wales," the Yankee Terrill says, "Doin' right ain't got no end." So it is with busybodies everywhere. They just won't leave us alone. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy just sent out a press... |