June 17, 2013 By John Seiler The L.A. Times' anti-gun obsessive George Skelton now wants your bullets. He writes: "From what I've been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assault rifle and 40 high-capacity ammunition magazines. He sprayed 100 bullets and had access to 1,30...
Posts Tagged ‘George Skelton’George Skelton wants your bulletsMonday, June 17th, 2013Fletcher skeptics vindicated a thousand-foldTuesday, May 7th, 2013 May 7, 2013 By Chris Reed For years, Cal Watchdog founder and now regular CWD contributor Steven Greenhut has depicted media favorite Nathan Fletcher, a one-time Republican assemblyman from San Diego, as a phony and a turncoat waiting to happen. Boy, was Steve right. Over the weekend, the ... Reuters bests state media at covering San Bernardino’s collapseMonday, April 1st, 2013 April 1, 2013 By Chris Reed If you had to fashion a nut graph to explain why so many local California governments are in deep fiscal trouble, here's my nominee for an honest generic overview: Over the past 20 years, the city/county/district's political leaders have often acceded to union de... Selling fracking to a propagandized CA publicSunday, March 17th, 2013March 17, 2013 By Chris Reed Sunday's U-T San Diego editorial wraps up a three-part series on fracking with some theories on how Gov. Jerry Brown might sell it to the millions of Californians who are unaware -- because of our pathetic state media -- that fracking is considered just another man... Skelton: GOP would win if it became just like DemsTuesday, February 19th, 2013Feb. 19, 2013 By John Seiler L.A. Times columnist George Skelton continues to amuse as he keeps telling Republicans they could win again if they just became like Democrats. After all, Democrats are winners, aren't they? As the psychologists say, shouldn't we "model" winners? Commenting on i... Karma time: Unions figure out Obamacare is a nightmareTuesday, February 5th, 2013Feb. 5, 2013 By Chris Reed As I noted in a CalWatchdog post last week, the California media are covering the state government's aggressive attempts to lead the nation in the early implemenation of Obamacare without bringing up its immense fundamental problems. "Beginning next Jan. 1, most co... Phil Mickelson’s net state income tax increase: 83.6%!!!!!Wednesday, January 30th, 2013Jan. 30, 2013 By Chris Reed Richard Rider, the dean of the small-government/low-tax movement in San Diego County, has come up with some stunning number-crunching on his blog: "Here's the fact that EVERYONE (including me) initially undervalued concerning [Rancho Santa Fe pro golfer Phil] Micke... There are no Henry Cuellars among CA’s Democratic polsTuesday, January 29th, 2013 Jan. 29, 2013 By Chris Reed As a libertarian believer in free minds and free markets, I've watched for decades the uneasy coalition in the Republican Party of libertarians/libertarian lites and determined social conservatives. What the former hold most dear isn't remotely what the latter does.... Parcel tax push: School finance debate must not ignore scandalsThursday, January 17th, 2013Jan. 17, 2013 By Chris Reed If we are going to have a debate about school finances in California because of the Legislature's interest in making it easier for school districts to get parcel taxes approved to boost their budgets, let's have a serious debate. A serious debate would focus on thre... Skelton: taxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxtaxThursday, January 17th, 2013Jan. 17, 2013 By John Seiler Here at CalWatchDog.com, I've chronicled L.A. Times columnist George Skelton's tax obsession. There he goes again: "SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown wants to help inner-city schools at the expense of suburbanites. But there must be a better way to assist the d... |