Irvine Approves New City Budget
This came in from Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang this morning. It’s a responsible budget that draws on the city’s rainy day fund while holding costs […]
Ardy Kassakhian
The November propositions
Calitics is reporting that Debra Bowen’s office has numbered the 10 propositions that will be on the November ballot. You can read their brief analysis […]
CA Working Families releases new anti-Whitman ad
California Working Families has released a new campaign ad highlighting the differences between the world Meg Whitman lives in and the world the rest of […]
One Final Lesson for the Class of 2010
My son Alex graduated from high school last night. It marked a moment of satisfaction for my wife and I that our choice to live […]
LA Times: Public Employee Unions are not the problem
George Skelton’s column in today’s Los Angele Times shatters some of the myths about the impact of public employees’ unions in California on the annual […]
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
From the Sacramento Bee: Yesterday Carly Fiorina spoke at a news conference held at the electrical contracting and engineering firm Rex Moore in Sacramento, where she […]
Nixing Republican purism
From  newsreview.com: After all the talk lately about the Tea Party and the rise of the Republican right, last week’s election was an eye-opener. As […]
Does John Seiler actually think that Senator Lou Correa is a communist?
John Seiler seems to think that State Senator Lou Correa is a communist. In a post yesterday he wrote “thanks to the profligacy of Lou “North†Correa and others, state and local government pension funds in California are $500 billion in the red.†So exactly what about pensions for public employees is communist? Well nothing, but that doesn’t stop Seiler from trying to make a connection where there is none so that he can use the phrase Lou “North†Correa.
Closing Arguments in the Prop 8 Federal Trial delivered today
“This trial clearly demonstrated Proposition 8’s denial of equal protection under the law,†said Chad Griffin, Board President of the American Foundation for Equal Rights. “No law may violate the U.S. Constitution. Our nation’s Founders established the courts to protect every American’s constitutional rights against discriminatory laws. This case is not about special rights for Kris, Sandy, Paul and Jeff. Rather, it’s about ensuring they simply have the same rights as every American.â€