Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My friend Laer, who started blogging at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which is now on hiatus), has created a new website devoted to the insanity that is California. It is called, appropriately enough Crazifornia, and is part of his ongoing project to document (ultimately, in best-selling book form) what happened in California.
Continue reading[To keep things clear, unless I explicitly preface a statement by saying “Bob said” or “Bob pointed out,” or something similar, the opinions expressed in this post are mine, and reflect my understanding of Bob Stephen’s approach to governance, as well as my view about California’s myriad problems.] I went
Continue readingNumbers can lie, but the numbers here are consistent with the same numbers I’ve seen in dozens of other places, and the numbers are consistently drawn directly from government sources. If you want to know one reason why California has gone from the most extraordinary state in the Union (something
Continue readingIn the movie Wall-E, the little robot had a task, and it did the task, long after the task’s necessity had passed. Like a funded bureaucrat, Wall-E just kept going and going and going. In California, the Department of Transportation was given a mandate and a task, and now, long
Continue readingOne of the things the last few elections has revealed is escalating voter fraud in America, fraud of the type that aligns us more closely with a banana republic than with a traditional Western nation. Thus, we know that groups such as ACORN have registered thousands of non-existent people. And
Continue readingBruce Kesler spoke with Tom Campbell directly about Israel, and the responses are more nuanced and less hostile than other reports indicate (see my earlier post, for example). Please check it out. The best voter is a fully informed voter.
Continue readingA friend emailed me with a question about an initiative poised for California’s November ballot, called the “Simple Majority” initiative. I’ll let the Wall Street Journal explain: Two groups are pushing ballot initiatives they say would purge that chaos from Sacramento’s budget process. A bipartisan group, California Forward, is pushing
Continue readingOne of the things I’ve been watching is the trial attacking Prop. 8 in California. As you know, in November 2008, California voters, by a solid majority, passed Prop. 8, which states affirmatively that, in California, marriage is between a man and a woman. Two gay couples sued in federal
Continue readingCalifornia AB 118 will be going to committee on Monday, January 11, 2010. AB118 would repeal AB 32, CA’s job-killing global warming bill. We need patriots to call their Assemblymember or, if possible, attend this committee hearing in SacTo. You have the right to go up to the microphone and
Continue readingThe UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial
Continue readingSide by side headlines on the SF Comical’s online front page today: Rage at UC fee hike in L.A., Berkeley protests – Nanette Asimov,Jill Tucker State budget drowning in red ink for next year – Wyatt Buchanan
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