Politics and Elections
Monday, 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...
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
May 19, 2013
By John Seiler
California Republicans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. But listen up, because here's one you shouldn't miss: Advance and initiative to cut the state income tax by 1 percentage point.
Right now, Californians and other Americans are enraged at the...
Friday, 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 ...
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
May 17, 2013
By John Seiler
As I pointed out in an earlier post, the Obama IRS enemies list against conservatives and libertarians discredits his so-called 2012 election "victory."
And remember how we were told, ceaselessly, that Republicans had to do more to win Hispanic votes, because Oba...
Monday, May 6th, 2013
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 ...
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
May 2, 2013
By John Seiler
Obviously, the Republican Party needs to do more to attract Latino voters. But it's getting bad advice from many quarters on what to do. I have some good advice at the end of the article
The latest bad advice is in The Atlantic on line by Gerald L. Cadava, "a prof...
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
May 1, 2013
By John Seiler
Whatever America's many problems, liberals continue to amuse us. The latest is a diatribe in the liberal news site The Daily Beast/Newsweek, "Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!" by Lee Siegel, who is described as, "the author of Harvard Is Burning, which h...
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
April 25, 2013
By Katy Grimes
Since the Democratic supermajority was ushered in after the 2012 elections, I've observed an interesting shift at the Capitol.
Democratic leaders promised they would "restrain" themselves on the ability to increase taxes. That hasn't worked out so well given al...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
April 22, 2013
By Katy Grimes
The current buzz around the Capitol City is Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, will run for Sacramento District Attorney in 2014.
Steinberg, 53, has worked as an Employee Rights Attorney for the California State Employees Association prior to ...
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
April 21, 2013
By Chris Reed
The coming battle over fracking in California is going to be a doozy. There's too much money to be made in the "brown energy" revolution for monied interests to not pursue the reserves in the Monterey Shale.
Soon to be the face of evil in California: Occidental ...
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