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Jerry Brown, more smoke and mirrors or real pay cuts?
UPDATE: Gov. Jerry Brown’s spokesman Gil Duran says today, via email: “The Governor’s Office played no part in any leak. Period.” We guess that puts our speculation to rest. I mean, who would think...
View ArticleCalifornia’s revised budget by any other name still is horrid
Over the weekend, we received an email complaining about something we must have written about Gov. Jerry Brown and his budgeting shenanigans. It came from someone who apparently has an iPhone and...
View ArticleCalifornia unemployment has improved to Eurozone levels! We’re in the Great...
We were lamenting just the other day, yesterday in fact, that California’s 11.0 percent unemployment rate was identical to Ghana’s, that sub-Saharan economic stalwart. Today we awoke to the good news....
View ArticleThis just in: Jerry Brown guessed wrong. Again. Tack another billion or so on...
We wrote for the weekend (see our column Sunday morning when it goes up here) that Gov. Jerry Brown is a bad guesser. The ink wasn’t even dry yet – in fact the Sunday paper hasn’t even been printed...
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Another Jerry Brown triumph! California-based Apple to build $210-million new...
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic Party-controlled state Legislature and the army of bureaucrats and tax collectors doing their bidding have triumphed again. California-based Apple Computer will...
View ArticleGood news? The Jerry Brown tipping point…
We don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but there may be some good news in the most current poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, that left-leaning outfit that insists it isn’t...
View ArticleGee, why don’t people believe Gov. Brown and his friends?
Remember the Credibility Gap? It was a phenomenon that rose to public awareness in the late 1960s (and even inspired a funny comedy group) when reporting showed a great difference between what...
View Article5 percent pay cuts for state’s bosses. How about the employees?
In what a prudent observer would think is the least they should do, the pay for Gov. Jerry Brown, legislators and statewide officeholders will be reduced 5 percent, thanks to the state’s independent...
View ArticleSpeaking of the state budget, which is teetering . . .
The Legislature has less than a work week to approve a “balanced” budget or get their pay docked. Never before has there been such incentive for these folks, who certainly hold their own interests...
View ArticleIt’s not about greenhouse gases or transit, it’s about greenback dollars and...
The California High-Speed Rail project is absurd on the face of it, which gives reasonable people reason to wonder – “What in the world are they thinking?” Gov. Jerry Brown says it is something...
View ArticleBudgetary shell games in Sacramento
Democrats say they can replace more than $1 billion in Gov. Jerry Brown’s cuts to programs for the poor. All they have to do is spend some of the state’s reserve and make a few accounting changes....
View ArticleBullet train expense killing Brown’s tax increase?
Gov. Jerry Brown’s pet high-speed train and his beloved November ballot tax increases may be on collision course, if pollsters are to be believed. It seems that greed knows no bounds. It’s not enough...
View ArticleJerry Brown on a roll, tax-and-spend wise at least
Gov. Jerry Brown, fresh from a victory in the Legislature last week on his beloved, ill-considered high-speed rail, won again today in court when a Superior Court Judge said his tax increase can be...
View ArticleBrown’s tax on the ballot may be harder to find, thanks to appellate court
This just in from Jon Coupal, who brought the lawsuit protesting Gov. Jerry Brown’s ballot tax: “In a victory for the integrity of the ballot process, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate...
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Language of politics: Jerry Brown, Barack Obama
How far would a politician get if he spoke plainly and you didn’t have to decipher or read between the lines to understand him? Yeah, not far. Don't worry? Here’s today’s example. Gov. Jerry Brown...
View ArticleGovernment deception in Sacramento? Say it’s not so!
What happens in the real world when those who are fiscally responsible for managing other people’s money hide it and engage in other deceptions? Yeah, they go to jail or at least get sued and have to...
View ArticleHigh-speed rail derailment derailed, for now
The ballot initiative to essentially cancel funding for California’s high-speed rail boondoggle has been shelved, at least for now. State Sen. Doug LaMalfa, R-Willows, and former Republican...
View ArticleGlobal warming alarmism detached from reality, still
You may have noticed the recent hype about global warming, a hot summer, looming devastation from freakish weather and all the same old stuff recycled again. You may also have noticed one of the...
View ArticleGlobal warming cause and effect? Not exactly…
The global warming alarmists (and you know who you are) continually whine that as things get hotter, extreme weather events – like tornadoes – will increase. Not only will global warming cook us like...
View ArticleProp. 30′s $6 billion? Not exactly…
Gov. Jerry Brown got his $6 billion tax increase last week when voters approved Proposition 30 to raise the sales tax and income tax on high earners. Will that fix what ails California? Or maybe not....
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