Is Something Happening Here?
There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear …. There’s battle lines being drawn, Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong …. Lyrics from “Somethings Happening Here” by Buffalo Springfield Is there a shifting in the political landscape or is this something that happens every election cycle? Dissatisfaction with the political parties by the electorate […]
Andrew Breitbart – Just Another One of the Guys. Sort of.
I can tell you the very first time I met Andrew Breitbart. A few years back Tony Katz, Justin Smith, Stephen Kruiser, Brooks Bayne, Gary Aminoff, and I embarked on hosting the very first tea party in Los Angeles. On the Santa Monica Pier. In the middle of the “People’s Republic” as us Conservative Angelenos affectionately […]
The Wandering Wolf Speaks
A lone gray wolf made headlines in recent weeks by wandering from Oregon into California’s Siskiyou County, making it the first gray wolf in the state in the wild since 1924. The movements of the wolf, known as OR7, had been tracked on the Internet – although the display of the wolf’s exact location was […]
Governance by Boondoggle
Crossposted on CalWatchDog The road to California’s financial recovery will be long and arduous. But a first good step is putting an end to taxpayer-financed boondoggles. We know from the collapse of the Soviet Union and other failed regimes around the world that centrally planned job creation does not work. Such economies share common traits: broken […]
STOCKTON, or BUST!
The very first real-world test of AB 506, requiring that before municipalities can file Petitions in Bankruptcy (Chapter 9 of the Federal Bankruptcy law), they must first negotiate with their creditors in front of a person who can neutrally evaluate the situation – a mediator – is about to feature the venerable City of Stockton. […]