Author: juanitocabrone

  • What Is With That?

    What Is With That?

    Chelsea Clinton to receive Lifetime Achievement Award? “At the heart of New York City is a vibrant community of strong women in entertainment, media, and politics whose commitment to philanthropy is inspirational,” said Michelle Sobrino Stearns, Group Publisher/Chief Revenue Officer of Variety, in a statement released Monday. “We are delighted to be celebrating these women…

  • California GOP Death Spiral: What Are You Selling?

    California GOP Death Spiral: What Are You Selling?

    Steven Greenhut offers an insightful analysis of the current state of the California Republican Party following the 2016 general election. An election that saw the California GOP slide further into irrelevance, giving California Democrats Super Majorities in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. Greenhut observes: In swing districts, the GOP can grab the…

  • The Promise of Liberty

    The Promise of Liberty

    Daily affirmation, from Justice Don Willett …it is unsurprising that people mistake majority rule as America’s defining value. But our federal and state charters are not, contrary to popular belief, about “democracy”—a word that appears in neither document, nor in the Declaration of Independence. Our enlightened 18th and 19th-century Founders, both federal and state, aimed…

  • Witness

    Currently re-reading Whittaker Chambers’ Witness. One of Chambers’ quotes from the 1960s,  as provided by William F Buckley in 2001, seems rather prescient half a century later : But if the Republican Party cannot get some grip of the actual world we live in and from it generalize and actively promote a program that means something…

  • Boom Or Bust – The Story Of California’s… Ballot Referendum Process

    Boom Or Bust – The Story Of California’s… Ballot Referendum Process

    Rant ahead: Please review the press release from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department regarding the impact of the just passed California Proposition 47. See also an article from the Los Angeles Times regarding Proposition 47’s impact in court on it’s very first day OK – This is why the ballot referendum process can be dangerous.…

  • California 2014-2015 Budget In Pictures

    California 2014-2015 Budget In Pictures

    Where we should be:   What the Democratic Legislature has delivered this century:   What the Democratic Legislature WANTS (Safety net!)

  • The World Saved: Seventy Years On

    The World Saved: Seventy Years On

    For a single day, let us ignore the current state of the world, and instead recall that seventy years ago, on June 6th, 1944, citizen warriors from the United States, along with our allies from nations around the world, leapt from the air, and surged from the sea, to gain a toe hold in France, in Hitler’s…

  • A Nation Of Heroes

    A Nation Of Heroes

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In…

  • Thirty Years To A Long Goodbye.

    Thirty Years To A Long Goodbye.

    On Friday February 14th we’ll have a memorial to remember my mother in law Sharon, whom we lost on February 2nd. A sad day, indeed, but we’ll take some time away from grieving to celebrate her life. I first met Sharon in December of 1983, and while I doubt that she had any inkling of…

  • We’re Gonna Have a Surplus, And It’s Burnin’ A Hole In My Pocket

    We’re Gonna Have a Surplus, And It’s Burnin’ A Hole In My Pocket

    The California  Legislative Analyst’s Office’s Chief Analyst Mac Taylor is forecasting a budget surplus that could reach $2.4 billion by June 2014 and $5.6 billion by June 2015. The actual projection made by the LAO has the state at a $10 billion surplus in six years, provided that revenue and spending patterns continue at the same…