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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Charles Johnson photo via NeonTommy
Little Green Footballs used to be virulently almost poisonously right wing. But Charles Johnson changed. He just posted ten reasons Why I Parted Ways With The Right, saying “The American right wing has gone off the rails, into [...]
It's not that we don't know what's been happening.
Rather, at times, we know too much about what's happening, and there's an awkward point where you're an activist with a blog and everything is going according to plan.
The tradmedia has piled on, and they are finally doing' [...]
Want to talk about something I haven’t covered? Do it here. You can find the previous open thread here.
[...]So, here’s a story about an extramarital liaison which should have legs. It has more relevance to our public discourse than any tale of a golf player’s indiscretions. And reveals more about corruption in our nation’s capital than the irresponsible actions of a junior Senator who carried on with a [...]
It's things like this that make me [...]
Sure I found Sarah Palin entertaining, but never in my wildest dreams did I think she was seriously this stupid. In an interview with right-winger Rusty Humphery proclaimed her true level [...]
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter just issued an order dismissing Laguna Niguel attorney Orly Taitz’s attempt to revive her lawsuit alleging that Barack Obama cannot be president because he was born in Kenya.
Carter dismissed her case in October without going to trial. Taitz then filed a motion with the [...]
? Sen. Romero is working on legislation to block election losers from getting unemployment for their old elected offices.
? California progressives are leading the charge against the escalation in Afghanistan.
? The Sacramento Utilities Distrct got some federal grant money for n energy storage [...]
Click here for my subsequent story on Pelosi’s speech in Irvine.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming appearance this evening at Orange County Democrats’ annual dinner has attracted hundreds of protesters from throughout the region, representing broad political spectrum. I even ran into Pelosi’s Republican challenger in next year’s Congressional race.
The [...]
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It's been one day since a state audit took a former California State University employee -- and current University of California worker -- to task for charging taxpayers for what the auditor...Anthony Watts’ blog has a wonderful piece by a real scientist, Robert Greiner, who is agnostic about global warming but has some pretty harsh words for the global warming advocates who, in his words, “call themselves ’scientists’ (but) work outside of ethics and ignore the truth to fit their pre-conceived [...]
The Liberal OC will be well-represented at tonight’s Truman dinner which features House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Chris Prevatt and I will be there as well as Claudio Gallegos and Bill [...]
Former California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres will be pounding the pavement in Hayward tomorrow on behalf of Alameda County Board of Supervisors candidate Nadia Lockyer.
The candidate – executive director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center in Oakland, a Hayward resident, and wife [...]
The global warming alarmists continually insist that the “science is settled,” the authorities have spoken and the case is closed. As the Climategate papers reveal, even the alarmists doubted their own data because they couldn’t make it jibe with what they said it should be.
Here’s just a few rather [...]
jflint, Ken Campbell, Chris Emami, Sgt. York, Eric Ingemunson, Allen Wilson
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