Mary has virtually no chance of winning the California Governor’s race this year so I propose she move to Washinton state and run as the GOP candidate for Senate.
On the plus side she is already known here from her arrest in a Lakewood Washington sting operation, she is better looking than both […]
The San Francisco Chronicle says that what’s good for Google’s stock market value is good for California:
California took in a record $11.3 billion in personal income tax receipts in April, $4.3 billion more than it collected last April. It’s almost certain that a significant chunk of April’s haul came from Google employees — perhaps one-eighth […]
I have to answer that in two parts based off the same incident, the $100 gas tax credit.
The first part comes from Senator Bill Frist’s office for proposing the idea. After all everyone knows that $100 isn’t going to make any difference to the average consumer, it’s only a $100 for [insert random diety […]
When we first read that the Postal Service was raising prices in the face of decreasing revenue, we thought “that’s government for you.” And it is — just not the way we expected.
According to the WSJ, revenue from first class mail — which makes up half of USPS revenue — decreased 4.3% in the quarter […]
The line above is from Stefan Eriksson (the man behind the high profile destruction of the Ferrari Enzo in Malibu) and not Patrick Kennedy, but in trying to deflect responsibility for his drug/alcohol-related accident Rep. Kennedy did everything but blame ‘Dietrich‘ (the phantom Enzo driver that Eriksson fingered while he thought that Malibu Sheriffs […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Chad weighing in on “what are the government’s most harmful programs”. (See this link to the first post on this series and Insider’s list).
I basically believe that all government programs at the federal level outside defense (including border enforcement), foreign policy, interstate commerce regulation, and revenue collection are basically harmful. Specific programs […]
Econoblog Marginal Revolution asks the interesting question on what are the most harmful government programs. Their thoughts:
At the top I will put our aggregate of health care policies, including Medicare, but without pretending that removing any one of them would solve the major problems. Many smaller decisions, taken together, have painted us into a […]
The 2006 Congressional Pig Book is out, and California’s a loser!
Of $9b in pork identified by Citizens Against Government Waste, California received $20.30 per capita — good enough for #43 out of the 51 states and DC. But in absolute terms, the Golden State led the way with $733m of earmarked projects. The per-capita winner: […]
Attn: Criminals (like the ones pictured above)
Portland, Oregon is the place to be if you are considering a life of crime. Due to bureaucratic madness, Multnomah County’s brand new jail, the Wapato Facility, sits empty while crime in the area skyrockets. Because the jail sits unopened, the county has instituted an early release program that […]
Do you really have to pay income taxes? Of course you do, but somehow there are still people out there peddling the theory that taxes are voluntary or that by filing a “zero return” you won’t have to pay taxes. Evidently, enough gullible people have tried these and other silly arguments that the IRS […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)At the same time UC Santa Cruz is struggling to find affordable housing for its faculty, it spent $30k for … a dog run for Chancellor Denice Denton’s dogs.
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel:
By way of comparison, the county’s Animal Services Authority paid $6,000 for cyclone fencing with slats for its shelter in Scotts Valley; construction […]
Spotted at Kenneth Hahn Regional Park:
The smaller print under the symbol says “Think before you act.”
We’re waiting for the ACLU to file suit opposing this blatant discrimination against criminal’s right of self-expression.
Technorati Tags: crime, Hahn, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Wikipedia has put up a wiki entry describing how unknown people using U.S. House and Senate computers have been sanitizing or defacing politician’s Wikipedia entries:
The following is a partial list of U.S. Senator biographies on the english-language Wikipedia edited by Senate employees.
Senator Conrad Burns’ page was edited to remove negative comments as positive comments were […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“In one effort to corral workers, King/Drew sent some chronically absent staffers what it called “Where Are You?” letters after they didn’t show up for days or weeks at a time.”
- Los Angeles Times article on how King / Drew Medical Center is cracking down on slack employees
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Does a new federal law make it illegal to annoy someone via a posting on the web?
At best, there is sloppy drafting in new legislation covering harassing or annoying phone calls. But you could well read it as a First Amendment threat.
President Bush just signed the “Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization […]
