Value Of Life
This op-ed in today’s Gray Lady is great. Not because its content is wonderful — it’s quite depressing. But it’s also dead on, and it forces the reader to confront some very stark issues. We ration health care now. To… Continue Reading
Government
This Would Be Cool
The California High Speed Rail Authority has some really cool graphics, including Flash movies, showing what it will look like when we have their bullet trains. I certainly do like the idea of getting to downtown Los Angeles in half… Continue Reading
TL’s California Budget Resolution Generates A Surplus
The Fish Wrapper‘s “budget balancer” toy is admittedly simplistic, but by accepting that I had to both raise some income taxes and cut a bunch of stuff, I got from a $24,000,000,000 deficit to a $789,000,000 surplus for the state… Continue Reading
Theme And Variations
It’s almost as if neglect of the responsibility of filing tax returns (and paying taxes) is a qualification for service in the Obama Administration. I can’t say that this is a “take-a-swipe-at-Democrats” thing because I don’t recall an unusually-high number… Continue Reading
Schizephrenic Schwarzenegger
I don’t get it. First the Governorator says he likes same-sex marriage. Then, he says that he won’t let the City and County of San Francisco issue same-sex marriage licenses because Prop. 22 was the decision of the people of… Continue Reading
A Bite At Some Low-Hanging Fruit, Namely, The Arrogance Of A California Democrat Holding Public Office
I’m hearing slow burn here in my elected representative’s voice: Apparently, she Senator Boxer didn’t realize that “Ma’am” is a formal title which military people call women who outrank them in the hierarchy, the equivalent of using the honorific “Sir”… Continue Reading
Pretty Much The Least He Could Do
Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order extending just-barely-non-trivial benefits to same-sex couples employed by the Federal government. It’s better than nothing, but it’s hardly treating a same-sex couple equally with a married opposite-sex couple. Which is why the population… Continue Reading
See What Happens, Republicans!
Moderates respond well to messages of fiscal conservatism, when they are devoid of social authoritarianism. The appropriate response to this revelation is not to explain why moderates should become more conservative.
The Best-Sounding Bad Idea To Come Along In A Long Time
Reading at Left Coast Rebel about a month ago, I was dismayed to learn last month that the Cash for Clunkers program was gaining political purchase. I can see the logic behind the initiative — subsidize the ability of people… Continue Reading
Rhetoric and Violence
Obviously, the Holocaust Museum murders yesterday were awful. They were the act of a deranged individual acting on hateful beliefs and the only consolation for the deaths of innocent people is that their murderer was swiftly neutralized and will do… Continue Reading