Oct. 31, 2012 Steven Greenhut Gov. Jerry Brown has fiddled while Sacramento has burned, squandering his entire governorship on a pointless campaign to massively raise income taxes on the poor, middle class and wealthy Californians through the Prop. 30 sales and income tax hike. Now that the initiati...
Blog-October, 2012Desperate governor turns to distortionsWednesday, October 31st, 2012Do they really want to combat global warming?Wednesday, October 31st, 2012Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Nowadays, almost anything that happens is blamed on "global warming." Or its more recent euphemism, "climate change." On his blog, Al Gore just wrote: "For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a similar event: a time when the climate crisis—wh... Prop. 30 aftermath: Dan Walters channels CalWatchdogWednesday, October 31st, 2012Oct. 31, 2012 By Chris Reed On Tuesday, CalWatchdog told readers that the idea the teachers unions would accept trigger cuts if Prop. 30 failed was ridiculous. "Does anyone really think the California Teachers Association and its less brash little bro, the California Federation of Teachers, a... Archie Bunker explains the electionWednesday, October 31st, 2012Oct. 31, 2012 By John Seiler Back in the late 1970s, with a previous bogus energy "crisis" striking, and Democrats demanding that citizens make "sacrifices," philosopher Archie Bunker explained what was going in words that still resonate today. California’s fate rests on more than this electionWednesday, October 31st, 2012October 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes As California voters prepare to square off with several tax increase measures on next Tuesday's ballot, the fate of California balances on a precarious cliff. But it's not just the tax increases which could push the state over the cliff... that's just part o... Gov. Brown campaigns for rich public-employee unionsWednesday, October 31st, 2012Commentary Oct. 31, 2012 By Mark Cabaniss If you have the stomach, listen to Jesuit seminary dropout (1957) Gov. Jerry Brown out on the campaign trail recently, selling his newest tax hike, Proposition 30: “I like to quote from St. Luke: ‘From those who have been given, much will be... Attack of the student zombiesWednesday, October 31st, 2012 Oct. 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: Beware the student zombies at CSU Sacramento and CSU Sonoma. The California Faculty Association is sponsoring a flash mob today at the colleges, "with staff and students in costume, dancing to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' with lyrics adapted to support Proposition ... N.Y. Times continues tradition of inept California coverageTuesday, October 30th, 2012Oct. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed The New York Times' history of poor coverage of California is extreme. It always blames Prop. 13 for the state's problems. It offers 8,000-word analyses of California's government dysfunction that never mention the power of unions. And now, in an analysis of the San... Whole Foods suffers second thoughts on Prop. 37Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 Oct. 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The campaign over Proposition 37 isn't as simple as it might seem at first glance. On the Nov. 6 ballot, the Genetically Engineered Labeling Initiative would mandate that genetically modified foods be given special labels. Whole Foods Market, the giant heal... Reform for California only a vote awayTuesday, October 30th, 2012 Oct. 30, 2012 By Katy Grimes Anyone who still has the hope of reforming California knows that it must begin with the political system. Far too many politicians in California are so heavily influenced by big money that constituents seem to be nothing more than an afterthought and a group to... |