Accounting for California’s Suicide

Mar 05, 2009 - Accounting for California’s Suicide A weird sort of utopian mindset. By Victor Davis Hanson What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations. - 8 Comments

California’s Present Day Dust Bowl

Jul 03, 2009 - PUBLIC POST * "The entire length of the 5 freeway between Sacramento and Los Angeles is lined with orchards and farms - just beautiful to behold and about 8% of the fruit produce for the nation comes from these orchards. Orchards which are now dead and being destroyed because water has been cut off to the orchards and farms in the Central Valley. Yes, there is a drought in California, but the reservoirs are full - the water is just not getting to the farms and orchards, it is going to the fish." - 0 Comments

California officials say the union may have influenced a federal requirement that a pay cut be reversed for home healthcare work

May 11, 2009 - SEIU may be linked to ultimatum on withholding stimulus funds California officials say the union may have influenced a federal requirement that a pay cut be reversed for home healthcare workers. By Evan Halper (LA Times) Reporting from Sacramento -- Officials in the governor's office say a politically powerful union may have had inappropriate influence over the Obama administration's decision to withhold billions of dollars in federal stimulus money from California if the state does not reverse a scheduled wage cut for the labor group's workers. The officials say they are particularly troubled that the Service Employees International Union, which lobbied the federal government to step in, was included in a conference call in which state and federal officials reviewed the wage cut and the terms of the stimulus package. - 7 Comments

Miss California Fired

Jun 10, 2009 - http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,525716,00.html Less than a month after being told by Donald Trump that she can keep her Miss California crown, Carrie Prejean is being fired, Foxnews.com has learned exclusively. K2 Productions, the independent producers of the Miss California USA pageant, under license from Miss Universe, cites continued breach of contract issues as the reason for Prejean's firing. The decision is revealed in documents obtained by FOXNews.com. - 18 Comments

Why California is No Longer a Paradise

Jan 13, 2009 - Why California is No Longer a Paradise Posted by Shannon Love on January 12th, 2009 People are leaving California and the once golden land has begun to decay. What happened? “We’ve lived off the investments our parents made in the ’50s and ’60s for a long time,” says Tim Hodson, director of the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento. - 19 Comments

California Supreme Court Will Announce Prop. 8 Ruling on Tuesday

May 24, 2009 - Informational only... The California Supreme Court will make its decision on a challenge to Proposition 8 public on Tuesday, May 26. Prop. - 16 Comments

California's Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the Second Amendment

Apr 21, 2009 - PUBLIC POST * :faint: I keep expecting Rod Serling to step out from behind a tree or something. The Ninth Circuit is usually a font of babbling nonsense, but they got one right this time. From the Cato Institute: Yes, California, There Is an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms Posted by Ilya Shapiro Last June, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. - 2 Comments

Do politics and pageants mix? Miss California's gay marriage backlash.

Apr 20, 2009 - It's no "Iraq such as," but another Miss USA contestant is everywhere today after he question-and-answer last night. She drew the name of the judge Perez Hilton,and he asked, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? - 102 Comments