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Surprise! Government assaults its critics
May 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...
Obama scandals reveal true govt.
May 20, 2013 By Steven Greenhut The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few thing...
Brown’s precious budget
No spare change under the dome
May 20, 2013 By Katy Grimes During his press briefing last week while discussing the state’s lack of budgeting flexibility, Gov. Jerry Brown said, "Anyone who thinks there's spare change around here, they haven’t read the budget." Brown released his May Budget Revision l...
Gov. Brown says one would ‘think’ Dems for disadvantaged
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...
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