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...

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...

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...

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...

May 6, 2013 By Katy Grimes Politics makes strange bedfellows. This we know to be true, but Latinos and Republicans should not be. Many demographers predict Republicans will steadily pick up Latino voters as Latino assimilation increases, and Latinos succeed economically. But one area is ...

May 6, 2013 By John Seiler The California fantasy is that energy magically will flow in abundance from windmills and solar panels, even when there's no wind and at night. The reality is that it's old-fashioned "fossil" fuels that will continue to generate almost all our power for the next c...