March 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes Coke -- it's the real thing. But not for 60 Sacramento area Coca-Cola employees who are about to lose their jobs. Only two months after Coca-Cola, Inc. purchased the locally-owned Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Coke announced it is closing the bottl...

March 14, 2013 By John Seiler A story in Roll Call magazine, which reports on the U.S. Congress, inadvertently explains why Democrats don't get what's going on in California. It reports: "Kevin de León, a California state senator, likes to tell the story of a 74-year-old San Diego woman who ...

March 14, 2013 By Chris Reed Well, that didn't take long. Bob Filner -- a paleoliberal former Democratic congressman who was elected mayor of San Diego in November --- is embracing the same sort of ridiculously generous public-employee compensation policies that led to his city's immense fi...

March 13, 2013 By John Seiler Since their drubbing in last November's election, Republicans have been taking a lot of criticism about their polices, especially for California. We've done a good bit of it on our site. But Democrats also need to rethink their positions. A good example of how ...

March 13, 2013 By John Seiler The impression seems to be that Latinos want more government, and in particular more taxes. Not the case. According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, Chile actually has more economic freedom than the United States. Chile also is moving toward more freedom,...

March 12, 2013 By John Seiler Steven Greenhut, whose column we run, has written an amusing article in Bloomberg about how Californians want oil tax money, but not the oil: "The only thing California’s environmentally friendly Democratic legislators prefer to regulating private industry isÂ...