Category: Politics
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Deborah Ortiz: “Let them eat cake. No, wait – give me their cake…” UPDATED
Ken Barnes, running for Trustee Area 6 position on the Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD) Board of Trustees, notes that former California State Senator Deborah Ortiz has friends in high places, and is not afraid to use them. Failing to meet the filing deadline for LRCCD Area 6 Trustee election in November, she had…
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While Rome Burns.
A simple search of the California Legislature website using the “Bill Finder Tool” for the 2009 – 2010 session with just the search term “California” yields 5286 bills as a result. YOU are paying for this folly.
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Cry Havoc
So the House passed the Senate Health Care Reform bill tonight. Swell. You know, George Lucas, masterful dialogue composer that he is (*cough* sarcasm *cough*) once penned: SO this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. One concept occupies my mind. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle…
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President Obama Knows How To Trash Talk While Hooping It Up
Overheard above the din of fresh Nikes squeaking on the White House Court: “As I have always said, that was a foul.” “Make no mistake, I will make both of these free throws.” “We never suggested that both free throws were a requirement to win this game.” “Some have suggested that I called ‘glass’. Let…
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The California Economy and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge: An apt simile
On Tuesday October 27, 2009 a section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge that had been repaired in September failed, causing minor damage and massive traffic congestion. Normal traffic on the Bay Bridge is maddening at best, but try tacking a couple of hours on to your commute home on a cold and…
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Proclamation of the Bear Flag Revolt
How soon we forget: To all persons, citizens of Sonoma, requesting them to remain at peace, and to follow their rightful occupations without fear of molestation. The Commander in Chief of the Troops assembled at the Fortress of Sonoma gives his inviolable pledge to all persons in California not found under arms that they shall…
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Support Matt Burden: BlackFive is in.
Matt Burden at BlackFive is running for office: For more than 20 years, I’ve served my country, fighting to protect and preserve the American freedoms, rights, and values that make this country great, first as an Airborne Soldier – and then as one of the leaders of the Internet political revolution that has held arrogant…
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John Garamendi: The Running Man
Just a quick summary of the offices California Lt. Governor John Garamendi has run for since 1974: Garamendi: The Running Man 74 CA State Assembly 76 -88 CA State Senate 82 CA Governor 86 CA State Controller 90 CA Insurance Commissioner 94 CA Governor 02 CA Insurance Commissioner 06 CA Lt. Governor 08 CA Governor…
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Back OFF! He’s a Doctor.
Well, not a medical doctor. And I don’t always agree with him. But Victor Davis Hanson is one smart guy. Rather, he is a statist. The president believes that a select group of affluent, highly educated technocrats — cosmopolitan, noble-minded, and properly progressive — supported by a phalanx of whiz-kids fresh out of blue-chip universities…
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Nailed it.
Mitch Berg, over at Shot In The Dark nails it: So how much money did Ted Kennedy spend to eke out this past 15 months or so? It’s his money, and it’s his life, and I won’t begrudge him a dollar or a day. But if a 77 year old man with highly-advanced brain cancer,…