I was sitting in the Vista In-N-Out burger last night hanging out with some friends when a group of punk teens came in. You know, the mohawk haircut kind. One fo them had his hair dyed all sorts of multicolored hues and in footlong spikes at every angle. The conversation turned to what sorts of […]
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, this evening, announced that counties had verified about 1.3 million signatures, far more than the approximately 900,000 needed to qualify for a special election to recall Gov. Gray Davis.. I think this is a mistake -- but it's a mistake that Gray Davis and the Republicans, by putting up […]
No, I'm sure that never occurs anywhere in America. Except California. Except for today. SACRAMENTO – Unaware that a live microphone was broadcasting their words around the Capitol, Assembly Democrats meeting behind closed doors debated prolonging California's budget crisis for political gain. Members of the coalition of liberal Democrats talked about slowing progress on the […]
The New York Times had a front page story earlier this week on a change at the White House. No longer can you simply send a message to: [email protected] -- now you've got to go through as many as 9 different screens to send your message through. Pain in the butt? Yeah. Evidence that the […]
Max Boot has an excellent column in today's Los Angeles Times pointing out that the "infamous 16" is all about politics. It has nothing to do with concerns about the quality of our intelligence, the president's honesty or...Watergate. The decision to go to war was not based on 16 words in the State of the […]
But not a whole lot. Today the Times published an op-ed piece by Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Jim Leach which reveals to readers that both Republicans and Democrats play the gerrymandering game. That's not quite the picture a reader would get if they'd only read Times editorials on the subject, specifically as it pertains to […]
The Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters had an interesting column in today's paper regarding household plumbing. To make a long story shorter, some municipalities and counties in California allow plastic pipes for home construction. Because it takes less skill (and union members) to install plastic piping versus copper piping, unions have long opposed the cheaper product. […]
By the time this entry is posted, California will enter the next fiscal year without a budget -- for the third straight year. With Gov. Gray Davis facing a likely recall -- the first of a statewide official in California history -- he is in a poor position to force a compromise between Democrats loath […]
I don't support the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, mainly because I believe that four more years of his lack of leadership and pandering to special interests will seriously cripple the Democratic Party in the state. That being said, I think that this sort of behavior is out of line. Opponents of the move to […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman complains that the Republican party is becoming the dominant party in American politics. In "Welcome to the Machine," Nicholas Confessore draws together stories usually reported in isolation — from the drive to privatize Medicare, to the pro-tax-cut fliers General Motors and Verizon recently included with the dividend checks mailed […]