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CalSTRS ‘baby’ owes $29,632 already

May 8, 2013 By John Seiler As Ed Ring notes today, the state of California has run up a "Wall of Debt" of $1.126 trillion. That's $1,126,000,000,000,000.00. There are 38 million Californians. So it comes to $29,632 per person, including newborn babies. A large chunk of that debt has been...

Fracking watch: Indonesia figures out what CA hasn’t

May 8, 2013 By Chris Reed Nations that are energy giants without being particularly affluent are the least likely places for environmental alarmism to drive public policy. They're used to aggressively developing natural resources, and they don't have the large cadres of affluent urban elites f...

CA gang runs MD prison

May 8, 2013 By John Seiler Who said California is running behind other states in creativity and innovation? The following story seems to come from The Onion. But it's from ABC News: "Four female correction officers were impregnated by the reported leader of a Maryland prison gang, which us...

Fracking watch: Algeria figures out what CA hasn’t

May 7, 2013 By Chris Reed Hydraulic fracturing -- the use of underground water cannons to blast open access to energy reserves -- has been around since the 1940s in the United States and Canada and for nearly as long in Russia. In no country anywhere in the world did enviros depict fracking as...

Immigration bill bloats to 867 pages

May 7, 2013 By John Seiler As I mentioned two weeks ago, the Gang of 8 immigration bill, S. 744, extended to 844 pages of indecipherable governmentese. Here's an example of what I quoted: Page 65: 17 (ii) EXCEPTIONS.—The discretionary  18 authority under clause (i) may not be used  1...

Raytheon splits California

May 7, 2013 By John Seiler The California economy seems to be doing well. Unemployment is down. The governor's May Revise of the budget surplus, due next week, likely will report an unexpected $4.5 billion in extra revenue. Except that companies keep leaving the state. The latest from the D...

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