Author Archives: ChrisA

User fees: another name for taxes (Not in CA)

No longer in California thanks to Proposition 26. California’s Proposition 26, adopted by a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent — not a landslide but not a squeaker — severely restricts the ability of city, county and state governments … Continue reading

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Homeland security waivers for we, but not for thee…

No grope list, just like a no fly list.

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Big Sis: “We’re watching you too”

Enjoy!

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North Korea Solution from the UN

More of the same, just better. If you keep doing what you’ve always done you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.

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How’s that “Hope and Change” working out?

According to a recent Zogby poll, not so grand.

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Wi-Fi makes trees sick

For a City that wants to micromange trees, a study demonstrating that wi-fi radiation is damaging trees must be like manna from heaven.

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Junk Touching

Charles Krauthammer concludes… The junk man’s revolt marks the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy. Metal detector? Back-of-the-hand pat? Okay. We will swallow hard and pretend airline attackers are randomly distributed … Continue reading

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The official flag of the travelling Tea Party

From Bungalow Bills.

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Travelers are in the very best of hands

TSA Hit With Lawsuits As Revolt Explodes “As the TSA agent was frisking plaintiff, the agent pulled the plaintiff’s blouse completely down, exposing plaintiffs’ breasts to everyone in the area,” the lawsuit said. “As would be expected, plaintiff was extremely … Continue reading

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Laws are for little people

just ask Charlie Rangel.

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California to sell $14 billion in bonds

Inquiring minds want to know who would be stoopid enough to invest in California bonds? California on Monday kicks off about $14 billion of debt sales, hoping that investor desire for yield will outweigh concerns over the US state’s fiscal … Continue reading

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Do Re Mi

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Amaaazing…

More information and puzzle solving here.

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Plan from Deficit commission chairman

It doesn’t appear that the deficit cutting proposals from the Deficit Commission’s leadership of Erskine Bowls and Alan Simpson will be accepted by the rest of the commission.  Members of both parties have issues with different aspects of the plan. … Continue reading

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Democrats: A failure to communicate

Hardly says Ruth Marcus. Hoo boy. Losing 60-plus seats is a very eclipsing event too. It would be nice to see some recognition that what we have here is not only a failure to communicate. Democrats are making a big … Continue reading

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Hope and Change

White House altered drilling safety report The Interior Department’s inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of the administration’s six-month ban … Continue reading

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$10.3 billion

The debt of California’s unemployment fund to the Feds. But pressure is growing on Sacramento to fix the system soon – whether it wants to or not. California has borrowed about $8.5 billion from the federal government to keep benefits … Continue reading

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China and Russia on Printing Dollars

GLOBAL ECONOMY-Obama returns fire after China slams Fed’s move China… “As a major reserve currency issuer, for the United States to launch a second round of quantitative easing at this time, we feel that it did not recognise its responsibility … Continue reading

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Seniors and Democrats

Apparently the Democrats lost support of the Seniors in this last election. Interesting. All that said, senior expenses are part of the problem. As I discussed with one of my liberal friends, the two biggest contributions to medical expenses are … Continue reading

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