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 [...]
There are times when politicians show power entrusted to them is misplaced. State Senator Jenny Oropeza unfortunately is such a politician.
Her district runs from a sliver of Long Beach west through Carson to the South Bay and West Los Angeles. Since college she has been employed as either an appointed [...]
ASSEMBLYWOMAN NORMA TORRES
When politicians run for political office they tend to make a lot of promises. Sometimes those promises are naïve, sometimes they’re not, and voters are cynical enough to know some will never be acted on.
In the last election, as we were entering this depression, Norma Torres made the [...]
Some politicians are legacy politicians, skating into office off the name identification of another family member serving or who has served in office. These sorts of politicians exist everywhere, having last names like Hahn, Pacheco, Mountjoy, and Calderon; building up machines that will elect anyone they put up within their [...]
One problem that is pervasive in politics is the number of elected officials who have spent their entire careers work for government entities. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield is another example in a long line of such politicians.
For the past 20 years, he has been an aide to first former New Jersey [...]
The liberal mindset of some politicians’ reasons only the force of government can solve any given problem, even if that force removes away God-given rights enshrined in our nation’s Founding Documents. One such politician is Congresswoman Linda Sanchez.
Before Congress Linda’s background started working for the ACLU, then the IBEW union, followed [...]
Yahoo! released its list of top ten politician Internet search list data yesterday. Topping the list is the President with Sarah Palin as the runner up. And down the list is California’s own Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here is the complete list:
Top 10 Searched Politicians for 2009
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
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Election officials said last week that a recall drive against Assemblyman Anthony Adams did not gather enough signatures to move forward, but [...]
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman gave an expansive interview to ABC News' Teddy Davis today, covering everything from Sarah Palin to 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown --...
[...] The other day a lady called on the phone; during a conversation about something else, she asked me, “Mr. Ross, do you dislike women politicians?”
I immediately replied that I liked Sarah Palin, to which she shot back, “But that’s only because she’s foxy!” I should have said, “I really like [...]
From Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke", "That doobie should cure my cancer for good".They came by the hundreds to witness government in action from behind the horseshoe on Spring Street.What brought out this crowd to witness 15 highly paid politicians in action? Budget cuts?' [...] 
This struck us as low even though we’re among the skeptics when it comes to swallowing political promises: Just 4 percent of U.S. voters say that most politicians keep their campaign promises.
That’s what Rasmussen Reports found in its latest survey.
4 percent. Wow.
A whopping 76 percent say most politicians don’t [...]
Worldchanging opines that some sort of agreement in principle my be penned at Copenhagen, but the real victory is elsewhere.
But one huge achievement looks more certain, and is largely being overlooked: leaders are taking the science seriously. More and more politicians, business leaders, religious leaders, doctors, even soldiers, have [...]
