Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Public Sector Unions are, at the least, inadvisable and, at worst, unconstitutional. This by Michael Barone writing at JWR: How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come to run public schools and myriad state and local government agencies?What were they
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Do you remember how 2004 presidential hopeful Howard Dean, whom the drive-by media aggressively promoted as a sane and normal Progressive presidential candidate, destroyed his candidacy in an instant with the infamous “Dean scream”? That little soprano shriek at the end of a maddened litany of states he intended to
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Hillary’s cough has sounded awfully familiar to me — and today I finally figured out what Hillary’s endless coughing jags bring to mind. To back up a minute, though. . . . As anyone following the news knows, Hillary’s been coughing a lot . . . an awful lot. Just
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Yes, it’s tax day, and what better day could there be to talk about all the distressing, expensive, and scary foolishness in the world? Ripping off taxpayers with climate change craziness. Today has been a “suffer the climate change” day for me, so it’s appropriate to open with a riff
Continue readingIf there were a speed-blogging competition, my goal would be to win it with this round-up post. I’d meant to blog at length and at leisure today, but life caught up, including a glitch with the bank, which lost the signatures that would enable me to liquidate my mother’s trust.
Continue readingI spent way too much time today wearing my lawyer, daughter, and mother hats, with no time for my blogger hat. Well, the blogging time is now, and I’ve got lots of stuff to share. As is often the case when I’m tired, these are not in any particular order,
Continue readingWhen we think of herd immunity, we think of vaccinations. Fewer parents are vaccinating their children nowadays because of their fears about negative reactions to vaccinations (including the now-debunked theory about vaccinations causing autism). Those parents skipping vaccination point triumphantly to the fact that, despite their children’s vaccination-free status, there
Continue readingThe State Bar of California, which I have to pay into in order to practice law in the State of California, long-ago abandoned its core responsibility of ensuring that people who hold themselves out as lawyers to California citizens are at least minimally qualified. As with all these mandatory organizations,
Continue readingKudos to Mi Pueblo, a grocery store that caters to Hispanic shoppers, for abiding by federal law. At least, I give it kudos. The Unions are fighting mad: The Bay Area’s biggest Latino grocery chain is trying to avert a threatened boycott after it began checking the immigration status of
Continue readingThe American Future Fund put together a very funny video that shows Progressives before and after the Wisconsin election. Before, defeat meant an imminent apocalypse; after, defeat meant . . . nothing: You can’t blame the Progressives for their differing before and after statements. With the November 2012 election coming
Continue readingWatch and learn. But be warned: it’s not pretty (and I’m not talking about the fighting part).
Continue readingA few days ago, I warned people not to get sick starting on Thursday in Northern and Central California, because the California Nurses’ Association was staging a sympathy strike. Sadly, one patient didn’t or couldn’t take my advice: A female patient at an Oakland hospital died early Saturday due to
Continue readingI’m surprised that there’s so little news about an upcoming nurses’ strike in Northern and Central California. This story should be a big deal, in large part because the nurses who are going on strike in thirty-four Northern and Central California hospitals actually have no complaint. Instead, they’re putting thousands
Continue readingWith regard to my post about public sector unions, this story about a very generous retirement pension is a good follow-up. And with regard to my post about Obama screaming in hysteric anger after Netanyahu explained that Israel was not going to commit suicide at Obama’s behest, I realize that
Continue readingThis post tells the story of a case on which I worked. It’s a true story. Picture this: It’s 2001. You live in California and you own a small business that consists of you and maybe three to five at-will employees. Your profits are decent. One morning, Jane, one of
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