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Can We Repeal AB 32 Now?
AB 32 is the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It is cutting state greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 to prevent further global warming. Along the way it’s killing manufacturing jobs in this state — the kind of jobs that could pull our record levels of poor people into the middle class. Although California comprises just 2 percent […]
California Needs More Champions of Manufacturing
California’s manufacturers are capable of meeting extraordinary challenges and will be the engine of job creation if they have the resources skilled workforce and the long term support of state and local communities. California’s unemployment rate fell from 8.9 percent to 8.7 percent in October but California unfortunately lost another 5,600 manufacturing jobs according to […]
The Pension Issue – Everywhere
Two stories yesterday thrust pension reform in the front of the political news. In Michigan, a judge declared that Detroit could consider bankruptcy to deal with its debt crisis and that public pension obligations can be treated like any other contract under bankruptcy law. In Illinois, the state legislature passed a public pension reform that […]
Tax ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
California is inhaling another pack of attempts to increase cigarette taxes. Joe Mathews enthuses about it on Fox and Hounds: This state needs to raise tobacco taxes. For a state as properly focused on health as California, the fact that we have unusually low such taxes is downright weird. We should be well above the national […]
Asking The Wrong Question About Brown’s Political Plans
The LA Times recently asked whether Gov. Jerry Brown is running for re-election, even though it’s obvious that he is. The better question – indeed, the biggest purely political question in California electoral politics – is different: is Gov. Brown running for president in 2016? Brown has said previously that he would be more focused […]
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Obama and U.S. Economic Suicide
Churchville, VA—President Obama is demanding, by Executive Order, what congress will not give him by vote. With winter approaching and the “Obamacare” mess hanging over his shoulder, he is now ordering the U.S. economy to hitch itself to more and more of the costly and erratic “renewable” energy sources. These have already bankrupted Spain and […]
The Only Reaction is One of Individualism
November 7 marks the centennial of Albert Camus, 1957 Nobel Laureate in Literature for work that “illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times,” when the specter of tyranny loomed large during World War II and its aftermath. While best known as an existentialist and absurdist, Camus said the writer “cannot put himself […]
William Penn, Pre-Founding Father
October 14 is an important but overlooked day in American history. It marks the 1644 birth of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania and an important influence on what would become America. Before Pennsylvania was founded, Penn defended British rights on which Americans’ rights would be built. Penn joined the Quakers at 22. Because they dissented […]
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Failures of San Francisco City College, not Accrediting Commission, Ought To Be Focus of Politicians
Now two liberal Democrat Bay Area members of Congress are joining the efforts of the public employee unions to keep discredited San Francisco City College open – and they are doing it by blaming the messenger – the Accrediting Commission – rather than demanding a probe of the out-of-control payroll department that helped cause the […]
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In Search of the Best Pinot Noir in California
As wine connoisseurs know, regardless of one’s taste preferences, the most coveted wines in the world hail from the comparatively tiny region in France called Burgundy. The red wine from Burgundy is made from the notorious and mysterious Pinot Noir grape. No California Pinot can truly be compared to the most famous Pinot on the planet, Domain […]
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Inside the AARP Selling of Obamacare
From The Daily Caller: The retired persons advocacy group AARP partners with the organization that helped craft President Obama’s “you can keep your plan” lie. AARP, founded in 1958, is generating criticism from many of its members for heavily promoting Obamacare, which helps AARP’s bottom line to the tune of more than $1 billion. One legendary television personality […]
Already Alone, Filner Faces His Future
From U-T San Diego: He goes for jogs by himself in Balboa Park and spends time at his grandchildren’s soccer games. He’s been rifling through the boxes of papers he has saved from his decades in public service, thinking about the book he could write. He’s stopped seeing most of the people who once called […]
Private Sector Shrank Under Obama
From The Daily Caller: The Obama administration is painting a much rosier picture of American jobs than the data supports, two researchers claim. They have been touting their recent study showing that nearly every state has seen its private sector shrink under the Obama administration. (Read Full Article)
CA Prison System Hiring 7,000 Officers
From The Sacramento Bee: Confronted with a growing wave of retirements, the California Department of Corrections said today that it will need to hire approximately 7,000 prison officers over the next three years to fill current and future vacancies statewide. The state has about 25,000 fewer inmates in its 34 adult prisons owing to a two-year-old program that sends […]
Ben Bernanke’s Idea of Hurting the Economy
From U-T San Diego: As the vote on Obamacare approached in 2010 — a year when the budget deficit was a staggering $1.3 trillion — the Democratic majority ignored the opposition’s concerns that the new entitlement’s structural flaws would cripple the economy and diminish U.S. stature in the world. 2010 was also the year that […]
