May 23, 2013 By Chris Reed The California Teachers Association has taken a lot of hits of late. It tried to sell its 2012 decision to fight bills to make it easier to fire pervert teachers as about basic fairness to employees. That blew up, leading it to go along with legislation this year tha...
Inside GovernmentNEW: Prediction: CTA to play good cop/bad cop on Brown school $ planThursday, May 23rd, 2013Surprise! Government assaults its criticsMonday, May 20th, 2013May 20, 2013 By John Seiler Government cons us into believing it "helps" people. It really exists to help itself -- and hurt those that want to reduce its immense powers. My colleague Steven Greenhut just visited Washington, D.C., and reported on how rich the area is. At least $4 trillion o... Gov. Brown says one would ‘think’ Dems for disadvantagedMonday, May 20th, 2013 May 20. 2103 By Chris Reed On Friday, I noted that the state budget scrum always involved a series of hardball power plays that exposed as fiction the idea that the California Democratic Party and the most powerful forces on the state's political left stood for "social justice." The trigger... CA budget: State’s unions tell poor they’re on their ownFriday, May 17th, 2013 May 17, 2013 By Chris Reed Nothing brings clarity to the absurdity of unions' claims that they defend the poor and champion social justice than the annual fights over the state budget. Advocates of social services for the poor and needy are up in arms that Gov. Jerry Brown's revised 2013-2014 ... 7 years not enough planning time for air board on AB 32Thursday, May 16th, 2013May 16, 2013 By Chris Reed The news that Gov. Jerry Brown wants to "borrow" $500 million in cap-and-trade auction fees to prop up the state's general fund in his revised 2013-14 budget could not have been more predictable. Brown may have an image of fiscal rectitude, but it is fiscal rectit... On schools, Gov. Brown chooses ‘subsidiarity’ over realityWednesday, May 15th, 2013 May 15, 2013 By Chris Reed Has Gov. Jerry Brown simply not been reading the newspaper for 40 years? Does he not see all the wars that the CTA and CFT fight on behalf of their members? Is he unaware of ACLU lawsuits targeting school districts for policies that help unions but hurt minority stud... Obama administration taps AP phone linesTuesday, May 14th, 2013May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes The Associated Press found itself in an interesting juxtaposition yesterday when it had to report that the Obama Justice Department secretly obtained two months of AP's own employees' phone records. In what can only be called strange, the Obama Justice Depa... Assembly budget secrecy ahead; 37 empty budget bills passedTuesday, May 14th, 2013May 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- Another secretive budget is in the near future as Democrats passed 37 empty budget "spot bills" Monday. It was business as usual in the Assembly. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Los Angeles, the author of AB 74, the budget bills, and Chairman of the... Video: In violent Detroit, private citizen starts 911 serviceMonday, May 13th, 2013May 13, 2013 By John Seiler In bankrupt, violent Detroit, the city shut down 911 service. That provided an opening for citizen Dale Brown to start his own service. As he says in the following video, he started with a staff of "me, a dog and a rifle." And as he says, cops nowadays are traine... CA public sector: Laws? We don’t need no stinking lawsSunday, May 12th, 2013 May 12, 2013 By Chris Reed In the private sector, there are all kinds of laws that govern employment, conduct, conflict of interest and appropriate use of shareholder funds. They may not always be enforced, but in the best-run companies, they are usually taken seriously. In the public secto... |