FYI: Zuma Dogg, Frank Sheftel, David Hernandez ALL endorse Chris Essel, as does Dennis Zine, Bill Rosendahl, Carmen Trutanich, Police Protective League -- JOEL WACHS -- and I hear KRLA's Kevin James tells listeners to vote for Essel between the two. (Richard Alarcon endorses Paul Krekorian. [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
Hat tip to Matthew Cunningham and his facebook group - Never Elect Abel Maldonado to Anything, Ever Again.
Just hit the wire from the San Francisco Chronicle - another of the usual articles seeking to make it look like the GOP is missing the boat with Latinos. [...]
I was on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” last night to talk about the Machiavellian machinations behind choosing the next Lieutenant Governor and the next Assembly Speaker.
I didn’t have time for a Perez-related anecdote. At least one prominent Democratic strategist shopped around the idea this week that – just [...]
Simply put, 2011 redistricting in Louisiana is likely to be ugly. A combination of factors make the 2011 redistricting a high stakes situation for both parties and will likely make the process a partisan fight. This article will detail Louisiana redistricting with a general overview of the state followed by a [...]
The ten-year estimate of ObamaCare costs come in under one trillion dollars, because the legislation envisions taxing Americans for several years to support ObamaCare before ObamaCare services begin. That is, ObamaCare would accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars as a fund before being drawn upon to pay the costs of [...]
Jim Lindgren has two interesting posts (here and here) on how the Hockey Stick was constructed and the various manipulations that accompanied it, along with the resistance/refusal to release the underlying data.
For what it is worth, I have previously looked at the Wikipedia entry on the Hockey [...]
When I heard my gal* Carly explain how government regulation makes it difficult for entrepreneurs and employers to create new enterprises and expand existing businesses, I became increasingly enthusiastic about her run for the Senator. Like the Gipper (and yours truly), she understands that government is not the [...]
Few commentators have talked about Obama's rhetorical powers in the past half year or so. Rather, many observers are annoyed by his rhetorical mannerisms. Left media mention no more thrills going up their legs. A black woman complained typically of his Father's Day Speech, that Obama's conversation with the black community [...]
That's the bottom line - their editorial board decided to back up the rantings Peter Hill. I posted Hill's self-centered rant that he blasted out to several people the other day. Hill and others are angry at the Central Committee for involving itself in the affairs of local government. I [...]
That's the bottom line - their editorial board decided to back up the rantings Peter Hill. I posted Hill's self-centered rant that he blasted out to several people the other day. Hill and others are angry at the Central Committee for involving itself in the affairs of local government. I [...]
Wonder if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will ever take responsibility for her own mistakes. The “so-called stimulus” isn’t creating the jobs she and her fellow Democrats promised so she vows to spend even more of our money on similar government schemes.
It’s like hiring a guy to do magic incantations to [...]
The three daughters of Panda Express cofounders Andrew and Peggy Cherng – Andrea, an attorney; Michelle , an intern at the family’s Chinese fast-food empire; and Nicole, a student – each gave $25,000 last Monday to Republican Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign. The parents gave $51,800 back in [...]
"Elvis was a hero to most."
-- Chuck D.
According to Cecil Adams, this is true. But was Elvis better? No.
This question is tangential to an N-Word conversation that never ceases, and since I recorded a YouTube on it a few years back, I'm somewhat bound to answer recurrent questions. Part' [...]
Emeryville-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc. will get a $25 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a pilot plant producing renewable fuel – a diesel substitute – by fermenting sweet sorghum.
The Energy Department doled out $564 million yesterday to 19 such bio-refinery projects nationwide; Amyris [...]
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Animal shelters are facing a huge increase in surrendered anaimals due to the recession or foreclosures. No-kill shelters are forced to turn away animals for lack of space. Other shelters have to euthanize, sometimes hundreds [...]
This film is so unbelievably awful that I'm glad I stole it. Well, I didn't exactly steal it. I got it for free from a friend who ripped it. I don't know how he ripped it, but I'm glad as hell he did the normal version rather than the sort [...]
Today she threw out a tidbit that the lobbying firm of Nossaman LLP, where Dick Ackerman works, was paid $19,070.20 for their work on behalf of the [...]
I'm looking for a new wallpaper for my windows desktop. I ambled across a Picaso and then went to Guernica. It reminded me that my cousin had a very large print on his wall in Brooklyn, and I suppose that says a bit about my cousin and my family. I' [...]
In his weekend video/radio address, President Barack Obama, noting that the best employment numbers in more than a year provide cold comfort, says he will keep pushing for economic recovery.
** OBAMA TODAY – SATURDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington.
He has received his daily intelligence and economic briefings in [...]
On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, I posted here on RedCounty regarding the Speaker contest, which is now becoming a two man contest between Assemblymembers John Perez and Kevin De Leon.
It is now clear that the issue of Assemblyman John Perez's sexual orientation will play a role in the fight as to who will [...]
On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, I posted here on RedCounty regarding the Speaker contest, which is now becoming a two man contest between Assemblymembers John Perez and Kevin De Leon.
It is now clear that the issue of Assemblyman John Perez's sexual orientation will play a role in the fight as to who will [...]
On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, I posted here on RedCounty regarding the Speaker contest, which is now becoming a two man contest between Assemblymembers John Perez and Kevin De Leon.
It is now clear that the issue of Assemblyman John Perez's sexual orientation will play a role in the fight as to who will [...]
A report released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office this week found that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) created or saved 600,000 to 1.6 million jobs in third quarter 2009 alone. This figure does not measure indirect job creation from most sub-contractors and vendors or from area [...]
Not Under The Bus is serving as a hub for online info about action centers fighting for women's health care in the health care reform bill before Congress.
This is not a redundant or competing effort, it links to all the groups, sites, etc. that are [...]
Next year I'm going to get back into the market. It has been about 9 years since I dabbled. I had a nice little pile back then and I did will with a conservative portfolio through the times of irrational exuberance, like everybody else. Except I was very skeptical as' [...]
(With deepest apologies to Henrik Ibsen and his play GHOSTS )
Andrew. Yes, yes; well, listen to me, Charles, You are very strong-minded, I know. Sit quite quiet when you hear what I am going to tell you. You mustn't scream or flounce. Will you promise me' [...]
Hercules cleans the Augean stables
Excerpts from some eminently sensible solutions by financial insider Epicurean Dealmaker. Read them all.
1) Ban political campaign contributions by the financial industry. We currently have the best politicians money can buy. I suspect it might be conducive toward [...]
Reuters announces that Roman Polanski was released into house arrest yesterday, December 4th, 2009.
The clock is now ticking...
We'll see who called it closest anent jumping bail.
The current pool positions stand as follows:
Release day: Captain Ned * December 6th: GW December 7th: Sachi * December 10th: Mr. Michael December 12th: Resolute December 16th: Dafydd December' [...]
Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly Republican address today.
Mitch's assignment was to address the...
A number of our readers have e-mailed Bruce and me, asking for our commentary on the latest revelation about Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools. As Michelle Malkin put it in introducing her post on the story,
Doing the investigative work the dinosaur, Obama-enabling media won’t [...]
Chase Arthur, Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register
Santa Ana External Affairs Director Jill Arthur was in the news today as the O.C. Register revealed that an anonymous donor stepped up to help pay for her son Chase Arthur’s first year of college, at the [...]
Imagine, if you will, that in the wake of the passage last fall of Proposition 8 in California, a group of social conservatives thought it was time to reintroduce the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) in Congress. As they did, they announced a national media campaign to promote the measure, encouraging [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addresses OC Democrats
Tonight’s sold out Truman dinner was a huge success and drew a large crowd of Democrats inside and about 100 protesters outside. House speaker Nancy [...]
In these pages, I’ve taken my councilmember to task for contacting me only to invite me to his expensive fundraisers. I’ve wondered what he does. Yesterday I got the following message which tells me, for the first time, [...]
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