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Hollywood-Style Rail Pander

Katy Grimes: In the OMG category, I caught a 30 second commercial tonight on a local Sacramento television channel that asked, "Wanna go to the Grammys? Get your creative juices flowing and create a 30 second commercial about the excitement and anticipation of the future of rail travel. Just grab yo...

Apple Cracking Textbook Racket

John Seiler: The biggest ripoff going is textbooks for K-12 and, even worse, college. I know some college kids who spend way more than $1,000 a year for required textbooks for their college classes. Usually the texts are sub-par regurgitations of P.C. claptrap. And the professors who write the...

SMUD’s Creative Rate Increase Lingo

Katy Grimes: The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is changing some of its rate terminology in order to charge higher rates. The utility company claims that it really is "an effort to better define for customers what they are paying for and why, to introduce customers to some new concepts, and ...

DA Slams Spitzer’s ‘Misuse’ Of Title

Steven Greenhut: The Orange County District Attorney's Office has sent former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer a scathing letter demanding that he correct a press release he sent out claiming to be assistant district attorney. Spitzer is running for Orange County supervisor. DA Chief of Staff Susan Kang Sch...

Big Savings With Part-Time Leg.

Katy Grimes: Limiting the Legislature to only 95 days each year and $18,000 per year salaries would save the state tens of millions of dollars per year, according to a new report by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office. Currently the full-time Legislature costs the state $256 million annu...

TSA Goons Assault Sen. Rand Paul

John Seiler: The centralized tyranny in the United States has gone too far. It now is assaulting Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. After the TSA's microwave "scanners" broke down, Paul was ordered -- like a concentration camp inmate -- to undergo a full body pat-down. He refused. The last word is that the...

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