Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This could be sour grapes or it could be something much more serious. Amusingly, the NAACP hopes the charges are true, even if that means the State and Feds acted illegally: An association of contractors accused Caltrans in a lawsuit Thursday of colluding with the Obama administration to flout California’s
Continue reading[David Foster has again been kind enough to take seriously my request for guest blogger content. I wish more of you would. There’s so much going on out there that, even if it weren’t for my time constraints, I couldn’t handle it all.] A FOUNDRY SAYS FAREWELL …to California. For
Continue readingThe San Francisco Chronicle ran an article today touting the demise of the GOP in California: With their registrations sinking and their political clout withering, California Republicans have come out of the November election in danger of slipping into political irrelevance across much of the state. [snip] Since 2004, Republican
Continue readingIn the old days, when work dried up in one geographic area, unemployed people migrated, often with tremendous difficulty, to another area. Think of the great Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, or the enormous Black movement from South to North during the Jim Crow years. People, being adaptable, followed
Continue readingI suspect that, once Obama starts raising taxes, buyer’s remorse is going to set in with incredible speed. This article focuses on the local economy, but is a harbinger of what will happen when taxes go up on a larger, national scale: A temporary 1.5 percentage point sales tax increase
Continue readingThere is a reason why it’s periodically useful for hyper-inflated real estate markets to correct: A pair of reports released Tuesday highlighted the upside of the real estate downturn: Housing is becoming more affordable for more people across California and the Bay Area. The percentage of households able to buy
Continue readingDemocrats have one attitude towards taxes: raise ’em. The higher they are, they think, the more money that government will have to redistribute to those the Democrats deem worth. They never seem to grasp that low, stable taxes are infinitely more beneficial to the economy, in both boom times and
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