Posts Tagged ‘Michael Hiltzik’Hiltzik mangles gun statisticsMonday, February 18th, 2013 Feb. 18, 2013 By John Seiler In the Los Angeles Times' continued attack on our gun rights, Michael Hiltzik writes: "Consider the most important statistic related to California's gun laws. In 1981, before the most stringent rules were adopted, California's rate of 16.5 firearms-related deaths ... Lance Armstrong should have kept fightingMonday, August 27th, 2012 Aug. 27, 2012 By John Seiler With a name like Lance-Arm-Strong, Lance Armstrong should have kept fighting the anti-doping charges against him. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency just supposedly "stripped" him of his seven titles, although it's not clear if they have the authority to do so, and he mig... Hiltzik ignores massive debtWednesday, August 15th, 2012 Aug. 15, 2012 By John Seiler Los Angeles Times business writer Michael Hiltzik is an excellent reporter. But when he gets to policy, his leftist perspective comes to the fore. That can be seen in today's article on Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Ryan was just picked by Mitt Romney as the Republi... Cal ISO focuses on Enron 2, not Cap & Trade manipulationFriday, July 20th, 2012 July 20, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A rerun is playing on TV of the inaccurate 2005 "documentary" movie, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” about Enron manipulating the California Electricity Crisis of 2001. It features Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and former Gov. Gray Davis, D-Calif. ... Cadiz Water Holds Key to CA ResourcesWednesday, March 7th, 2012 MARCH 7, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The much-scorned Cadiz Water Company has transformed into an environmentalist’s and a free-marketer’s dream. But the cognoscenti -- the media and academic gatekeepers of social reality -- don’t care to take notice. Instead they prefer to unjustifiably mo... L.A. Times Attempting SuicideMonday, March 5th, 2012 Commentary MARCH 5, 2012 By JOHN SEILER Today the Los Angeles Times is charging for visiting its site online. This is a suicide attempt that will severely damage the paper. Its parent company, Tribune Co., long has been in bankruptcy, running up $233 million in legal fees. According to t... $594,976 Vac Pay for Gov. WorkerSunday, May 15th, 2011 John Seiler: Incredible. Even after all that has been revealed about the immense government-worker pay, perks and pensions that have bankrupted California state and local governments, more shocking revelations keep coming up. This is from today's L.A. Times: Reporting from Sacramento— Manager... L.A. Times Goes Tax BerserkWednesday, April 27th, 2011 John Seiler: The L.A. Times' tax obsession goes back decades. I remember back when George Deukmejian was governor (1982-1990), the Times was especially fanatical about increasing taxes. So one of the governor's advisers sent the Times management an unofficial bill for its share of the new taxes t... |