Given all the business talent in America, you would think we could promote some of those pros to the top political positions and let them fix everything. Indeed, in California three are running for those positions now, all claiming that, because they're "outsiders" and "not career politicians," they...

If you wonder why Steve Poizner isn't gaining traction against Meg Whitman, just look at his lame ad of a car crashing, then somehow being revived. It looks a 1987 Buick Le Sabre of the type I used to own. It's depressing. His voice is depressing. align="right" Then he talks about an initiati...

Been reading Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its Quest to Spread, Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by my good friend and former colleague Nick Schou. It's a colorful, endlessly interesting book about a band of hippie drug smugglers from Laguna Beach who in the sixties thought ...

On Sunday evening, two days after Obamacare was passed, I came down with food poisoning. So far, Obamacare hasn't helped me at all. What happened? Wasn't The One supposed to cure all our ailments? Seriously, Obamacare is going to hit California's budget, chronically in the red, with another $2 bi...

Maybe the headline is an exaggeration, but Meg Whitman's proposal to create legislative teams, which she enunciated at a California Taxpayers Association meeting today, is almost as bad of an idea than singing Kumbaya with assembled legislators. According to the Sacramento Bee, "'Let's come togethe...

It's common for law-enforcement officials to spike their pensions by claiming disabilities toward the end of their career. The Sacramento Bee reported on what is known as Chief's Disease -- at one point 82 percent of high-ranking California Highway Patrol officers miraculously discovered a disabling...