Responding to George
Supposedly, Mark Twain warned, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” Well, perhaps its time to challenge that idea in the digital age especially when you have your own blog. I take issue with George Skelton’s piece in today’s Los Angeles Times. George implies that our PAC should not have […]
Warning: Voting for Proposition 37 May Result in Serious Financial Harm
The genetically engineered food labeling initiative on the November ballot – Proposition 37 – should give us all a case of déjà vu. In 1986, California voters approved Proposition 65, another labeling initiative that required warning signs in areas where people could come into contact with chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. Chances […]
Why Conservatives Like Bill O’Reilly and Me Support Proposition 34
Bill O’Reilly is the newest endorser of Proposition 34, the initiative that will replace the death penalty with life in prison without possibility of parole and make inmates work and pay restitution (rather than sit in private cells without doing anything, as they now do). It might be surprising to some that O’Reilly, a political […]
Business Groups and Taxpayers Associations
Crossposted CalWatchDog California taxpayers can hardly get a break. The Democrats who have ironclad control of the state government are constantly looking for ways to hike taxes and the state’s business leaders epitomize the crony capitalist model, as they throw average taxpayers under the bus and seek out special privileges for themselves. The California Chamber […]