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Never mind that Arnold guy, have a look at Meg!
California can’t afford another Pete Wilson mistake.  Wilson was Governor Schwarzenegger’s campaign chairman – epic fail.  Now, Californians face a financial crisis because the governor caved when Democrats demanded reckless spending.  The crisis will only worsen when Schwarzenegger’s global warming law, AB 32, wreaks its devastation [...]

“Raise your hand if you’re a liberal!”
Governor Schwarzenegger should spare overtaxed Californians the costly legal battle that will result if he swears in Abel Maldonado as Lieutenant Governor.  Win or lose, the taxpayer should not be forced to pay the cost of a battle that benefits only Abel Maldonado.
The Governor should not waste taxpayer capital [...]

With Obama’s forced unionization bill (“card check”)  in jeopardy,  Obama is now attempting to ram forced unionization through by executive fiat. Loretta Sanchez sponsored the bill eliminating the secret ballot in union certification elections by sponsoring the (so-called) “Employee Free Choice Act” – freeing unions to coerce and intimidate workers.  (Even other labor unions have [...]

“The buck stops anywhere but here.”  That’s the essence of the Deficit Reduction Commission bill under consideration by the Senate.  The Obama administration (who has quadrupled the budget deficit in only one year) wholeheartedly supports the measure.  The President and his Democrat allies are seeking to pass the buck and evade responsibility for their (reckless [...]

Arnold was never the same after his 2005 ballot measures tanked
“Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger got it right”  is not something you hear much these days.  The governor’s poll numbers (like the legislature’s) are dismal, reflecting his inability to deal with the state’s budget crisis.  People forget that Governor Schwarzenegger got it right in 2005, when he [...]

Democrats, reeling from their stinging Massachusetts’ defeat, have relaunched their populist “Wall Street v. Main Street” rhetoric. Their push for a massive regulatory overhaul poses dangers for the GOP, who should not fall in the trap. Voters are justifiably angry over government bailouts of the banking industry, who played a central role in our economic mess. The GOP should not defend the indefensible, and would do better to channel voter outrage into exposing the Obama administration’s role in banking bailouts, and the fraud that is the Federal [...]

Is Obamacare style healthcare coming to California?
Sacramento Democrats are doubling down on the deficit.  In the face of a $20 billion deficit, Democrats are pushing to double the state budget through a single-payer (government takeover of the) healthcare system.  They propose massive payroll tax increases to pay for their massive government bureaucracy.
Democrats promise that “government [...]

Why does the left despise your freedom so? The left is in an uproar over the Supreme Court’s decision to protect political speech in Citizens United, with some comparing the decision to Dred Scott.  Before we join the chorus against “too much money in politics”, we should recognize that the problem is “too much money [...]

The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United appears to leave the Citizen Power Campaign unscathed.  In Citizens United, the Court overturned limits on corporate political expenditures.  In doing so, it overruled prior decisions sanctioning bans on corporate expenditures.  The decision restores earlier precedents forbidding such bans.  Nevertheless, it appears that the Citizen Power Initiative survives [...]

It what can only be a satirical essay, UCLA Film Prof. Chon Noriega recommends sentencing inmates to college.  Noriega points out how prison spending has grown as a percentage of the state budget (leaving out how the prison guards’ union bankrolled the campaigns for California’s three strikes – spiking incarceration and spending).  He suggests a [...]

Sacramento is again driving up healthcare costs, putting insurance out of reach for more Californians.  Sacramento’s latest costly mandate dictates shorter waiting times to see doctors.  Good news for consumers, right?  Wrong. Consumers will bear the costs of the mandates through higher insurance premiums.  This means fewer Californians will be able to afford health insurance.
Sacramento’s [...]