edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Now, many of these proposals are things you have heard before. And the target of [...]
Lithium is an important element in electric and hybrid car batteries. The Lawrence Livermore Lab has developed a way to make it simpler and easier to remove lithium from waste water from geothermal plants.
But you wouldn't know it to listen to Jimmy Carter natter on about Catholics or Southern Baptists or the Lord whom we all claim to follow.' [...] 
One cannot help but wonder.
Freshman Congressman Tom Perriello is a Democrat. His district is mostly central Virginia [...]
As my colleague Matt O’Brien wrote back in August, Iranian-Americans in the Bay Area continue to worry about the fate of an Iranian opposition group that has been living in Iraq for decades, but may now be in danger from the new U.S.-supported Iraqi regime.
Hamid Azimi of Albany, a [...]
While I have been outspoken in my support of Carly Fiorina’s bid for the United States Senate, this blog has yet to endorse either of the two Republican candidates vying for the opportunity to take on one of the Senate’s most liberal and ineffective members.
In the contest for Virginia’s Eighth [...]
Three-time congressional candidate Delecia Holt wrote bad checks for everything from buying a Mercedes to a month-long hotel stay to expenses for suspicious fundraiser, according to witnesses in the fraud trial that began today.
While the nine felony counts could land her in prison for a maximum of nearly 12 years, [...]
In a further example of bias at the AP (in the guise of journalism critical of a Democratic politician), “reporter” Kevin Freking covers how the two Republicans vying to replace Barbara Boxer in the United States Senate have been making much of her “reprimanding a general for calling her [...]
The story focuses on the central question of the Republican Party, in the nation, [...]
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi delivered the Keynote Address to the Democratic Party of Orange County’s 15th Annual Harry S. Truman Award Dinner last Friday, December 4th in Irvine. For those who [...]
Reader Don Easterbrook submits this via e-mail on the “warmest decade” which also happens to have declining temperatures. (emphasis ours)
As he says: “The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one in the modern record, the World Meteorological Organization reported in a new analysis on Tuesday. … [...]
Former South Bay Rep. Tom Campbell , asked about buzz that he's being urged to rethink his 2010 GOP gubernatorial run -- and enter the U.S. Senate race -- was unusually tightlipped Monday....As I have said before, small business wants, in declining order:
More sales (top priority for 33% of companies surveyed) Lower taxes (20%) Less burdensome governmental regulations (13%) Easier credit (5%)Note that taxes and governmental regulations together are 33%. That is, government as the macro environment for economic activity is anti-growth; [...]
This is the finest summary of Climategate I’ve seen anywhere, so far. It’s here.
The Associated Press should be ashamed of itself. Rather than it’s so-called “comprehensive” report over the weekend which only regurgitated warmists’ talking points, the AP could have done some real reporting like this article in [...]
Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, will host a telephone town hall on Wednesday at 6:10 p.m., one of those electronic events where constituents can participate via the phone lines.
A computer-generated program will put out a call blast to McNerney’s constituents prior to the hour-long call but residents may also sign [...]
And that’s in just over 24 hours. Massimo Tartaglia’s Facebook fan page
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After meeting with financial leaders, President Barack Obama said today that banks have a greater obligation to help the U.S. economy recover with increased lending because they received “extraordinary assistance” from the government.
** NEW COLUMN COMING UP … OBAMA’S WEAK HAND ON CLIMATE, AND THE CALIFORNIA OPTION.
** THE [...]
Analyzing Obama – Interview with Paul Street from Jonathan Shockley on Vimeo.
Whether you love or loathe Barrack Obama, you’ll find this interview with Paul Street informative. Paul Street was in a unique position to witness the rise of Obama in Chicago and has written extensively on [...]
Have you noticed a subtle shift among some of the acolytes of the Holy Church of Global Warming Climate Change? I have.
In the wake of the scam's exposure -- and the collapse of the Holy See of "Climate Science" from a god to a cult --' [...]
The government says cap and trade dropped acid rain emissions 50% in the Northeast. However, dealing with GHGs worldwide is way more complicated than reducing one pollutant gas in one area. Especially when polluters could and did simply move polluting plants from the Northeast [...]
I keep having to replace worn-out mallets,” [the owner of the arcade game] said.
Players, who are promised a “truly rewarding banking experience”, pay 40p to hit as many bankers as they can in 30 seconds.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is running out of moves as the Christmas holiday deadline nears and senators are still skeptical about pieces of his health reform legislation.
One of Reid’s major problems, Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, says he’ll vote for the bill if lawmakers remove [...]
Killacycle, which holds a record’s world of 169mph in the quarter mile for electric motorcycles, will race Afterburner as part of an educational tour.
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Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence [...]
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech of December 10, 2009, President Obama surprised many in his audience, including me, by invoking the just war doctrine and defending United States contributions and role as a superpower in imposing peace and democracy and in building institutions of international peace. He said:
Human nature is flawed and [...]Gosh, whatever happened to all the changiness and transparency that Obama said he’d bring to DC?
More to the point, what is FDIC to terrified of divulging?
[...]Via SolveClimate
E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.
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Pay chief wishes he wasn’t. That’s right, our supposed pay czar finds his job deeply icky and anguishes about having to cut anyone’s salary. Especially bigwigs at AIG.
Naked Capitalism
I am SOOO annoyed about the reform bill headfake I don’t know where to begin.
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I was on vacation last week, and one of the fun things I did was go to the Bullard-Centennial Division I Valley Championship football game Friday night. I graduated in 1985, and this may have been the first high school football game I've gone to' [...]
In what’s turning out to be a self-funded showdown for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman this year has put $19.02 million into her campaign and already is airing an ad blitz to raise her name recognition.
Meanwhile, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner had anted up [...]
Irvine councilmember Steven Choi is now using his Pelosi-is-Stalin stunt to raise funds for his assembly race.
Choi is complaining that Democrats have attacked him for his right to free speech; no one is denying the [...]
David Harmer
The Mormon Times, published by the Utah-based Deseret News, reports that Republican congressional candidate David Harmer may run again but for a neighboring seat.
Harmer ran unsuccessfully in District 10 earlier this year, losing to then-sitting Democratic California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi.
District 11 is [...]
With Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Ct., saying he can't support the Senate deal on health care that would allow people 55 and over to buy Medicare coverage, passage of legislation by Christmas is growing...
According to the news on Bloomberg this morning. 14% of mortgage holders are not making payments and 25% of mortgages are underwater. Amazing. There is nothing in the White House payment modificationn plan to handle negative equity. Laurie Goodman is the expert on the spot.
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When I wrote about Jennifer Muir’s Watchdog Report County IT Spending Like [...]
Congress tussles over college football playoffs - Sac Bee
Elk Grove Republican Rep. Tom McClintock says members of Congress are clearly out of bounds as they consider changing the rules that determine the best team in college football. "My God, I must have missed the day in civics class [...]
A follow up to my Galco Saturday, I drank the Dandelion & Burdock soda. I'm at the age where I've tasted pretty much all of America and while I don't do eclectic just for the point of being eclectic, I do appreciate a surprise now and then. Surprises have been' [...]
If this news is true, then that's all she wrote.
In a flailing, last-ditch effort to save the Senate ObamaCare bill -- which is gonna be sinking soon, to draft Norah Jones into a role she would hate -- Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid (D-Caesar's Palace, 75%) jettisoned the government [...]
State Assembly Candidate Jeff Gorell seems to be running the table in endorsements in his campaign for Assembly in the 37th District. In the last week the state Chamber of Commerce, local chambers, and the Young Republicans Federated of California (YRFC) threw their support behind his 2010 bid, which [...]
State Assembly Candidate Jeff Gorell seems to be running the table in endorsements in his campaign for Assembly in the 37th District. In the last week the state Chamber of Commerce, local chambers, and the Young Republicans Federated of California (YRFC) threw their support behind his 2010 bid, which [...]
State Assembly Candidate Jeff Gorell seems to be running the table in endorsements in his campaign for Assembly in the 37th District. In the last week the state Chamber of Commerce, local chambers, and the Young Republicans Federated of California (YRFC) threw their support behind his 2010 bid, which [...]
I wish I could be as sanguine about the the election of the firmly openly gay Speaker of the California Assembly as I am about the first openly lesbian Mayor of the City of Houston. And while I have met Assemblyman John Pérez, an openly gay Latino Democrat from Los [...]
A while back I explained this in a post titled, “The Minority Case Against The Minimum Wage“, see here. Economist Steven Horwitz makes the same argument with less verbiage:
During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised that, in contrast to his predecessor, his presidency would [...]
Five Santa Ana Police Department cruisers and a helicopter chased down a white SUV tonight, at approximately 11:30 pm. The SUV was abandoned on Spurgeon St., just south of Edgewood.
Police officers were overheard looking for a handgun and up to three suspects.
In the video above, a neighbor from Edgewood approached the police [...]
The Press Enterprise headline says it all: "Raucous crowd greets San Jacinto council at first meeting since corruption indictments." A citizens' group calling itself "SCRAM," for the San Jacinto Corruption Recall Active Movement, is organizing recalls for the indicted members of the city council, and that's the least of the [...]
It's unanimous, on one side of the aisle at least. John Perez is the California Assembly's next Speaker. Just 40 years old, openly gay, a freshman lawmaker and holding his first elective office, Perez will be officially voted in net month, but with the unanimous backing of his caucus, that's [...]
J.J. Jelincic, a former president of the California State Employees Association, has won a seat on the CalPERS governing board, and is looking to make some changes. Jelincic was able to beat out the SEIU backed candidate, Cathy Hackett, and is himself a CalPERS employee -- which is a bit unusual.
Jelincic, who is [...]
Now that Obama has successfully put the war in Afghanistan on the back burner as far as the 24 hour news cycle is concerned, it is worth noting that the entire process leading up to the announced deployment of an additional 30,000 troops was very revealing regarding the current Commander-in-Chief. [...]
Alameda’s Lesson 9 will be featured on KQED’s Forum tomorrow morning at 9am and I’ll be one of the speakers. Thanks to Susan Davis for her write up at SFGate’s InAlameda (If you haven’t been reading her almost daily posts there, you’re missing something, check her out!)
Here’s the overview [...]
State Senator Lou Correa celebrates the opening of the new Lee’s Sandwiches in Santa Ana
It is a big deal when a new business opens up in Santa Ana, particularly during the awful economic crisis our nation is currently undergoing. Perhaps that is why [...]
Liberals and "Progressives" have always had a media advantage in pitching their sundry causes to the American people: They have controlled the major entertainment media (print, radio, television, and movies) for many decades; so when they're losing the argument on points in news and discussion shows, they can always
