The National City city council won't have to declare a car dealership blighted in order to force the landowner to sell to the dealership. A deal has been made and government taking won't be necessary. This is good news. Since I wrote about the case last week, I had been looking forward to seeing where […]
Former California Gov. Pete Wilson recounts the rebuilding of the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. If you're serious about actually getting stuff done, then this is the way to do it. Frankly, I often wish that they'd take this sort of approach with the I-15 freeway through San Diego. They've […]
If you didn't get up early enough this morning to watch Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu look like a complete and total idiot on "Fox News Sunday," then head over here and check it out. Even if you showed me a CAT scan of this woman's skull and it showed a brain, I wouldn't believe it, […]
The much-maligned Kelo decision which eviscerated the Constitution's property protections wasn't supposed to have much of an effect here in California. Unlike some other states, California already prohibited cities, counties, school boards and other public entities from taking private property from one person in order to give it to another unless the property was "blighted." […]
Louisiana's fatally incompetent governor, Kathleen Blanco, not only barred the Red Cross from providing food, water and other basic necessities to evacuees at the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center last week as conditions there quickly deteriorated, but also the Salvation Army. Why? Because she didn't want people to get too comfy. The Salvation Army […]
Fox News' Major Garrett reported Wednesday that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco refused the Red Cross permission to bring food, water and other supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome and New Orleans convention center. From an interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, courtesy Radioblogger: MG: Well, the Red Cross, Hugh, had pre-positioned a […]
The California Legislature, in defiance of a popularly enacted prohibition on same sex marriage just five years ago, has decided a solid majority of California voters can pound sand. I don't know that yesterday's vote will result in a backlash against Democrats in the next election cycle, what with the gerrymandered districts which guarantee that […]
Ever since the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina's destruction in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast became clear, the political left has been in heightened outrage mode. First it was the Bush administration's callous budget cuts to flood control and levee projects in New Orleans. Unfortunately, these sorts of federal funding decisions are fundamentally political -- […]
Over at EU ROTA, the Lexis-Nexis database has provided us with the craven and shameless opportunism that is the New York Times editorial page. First, Thursday's Times editorial on the Hurricane Katrina tragedy: While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees […]
Before the levee(s) broke, Hurricane Katrina didn't look much worse than most other Category 4 storms that have hit the U.S. in recent years. It was the failure of the levees and the subsequent flooding and rampant lawlessness that kicked this thing up to a whole new level. I've never been in the aftermath of […]