Yes, I know it’s a convoluted, serpentine headline. What it amounts to is good news for supporters of rent control for mobile homes, long a hot-button issue entwined with Oceanside’s famously factious politics. Fresh electrons from the North County Times give the details: Enough signatures have been collected on petitions challenging an Oceanside mobile-home rent control measure to put the …
Watch This Space . . .
UPDATE: It’s on! ———————————————- . . . more accurately, watch this Website, http://californiarebellion2012.com. Nothing much here yet, but Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone says it will be turned on later tonight. In an interview on the LaDona Harvey show, Stone said his proposal to have 13 counties, including San Diego County, secede from California to form their own state is …
Domestic Workers Would Get Lunch Breaks, Overtime, Vacation Under Calif. Bill
Housekeepers and other home care workers would get new benefits, including lunch breaks, overtime and paid sick and vacation time under a bill now under consideration in Sacramento. The bill, AB889, is called the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It’s authored by two Assembly Democrats, Tom Ammiano and V. Manuel Pérez. The California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee …
SD Young Democrats’ Colin Parent To Brown Administration – Congratulations!
The San Diego Reader’s David Rice has the story. Colin Parent, a Two Cathedrals contributor and political director of the San Diego County Young Democrats, has taken over as Director of External Affairs for the California Department of Housing and Community Development as of July 5. Parent tweeted the good news yesterday. According to the Young Democrats press release, at …
Advocating Higher Taxes, Or Just Giving Info? It’s Higher Taxes!
In the comments to my post about the deceptively named Middle Class Taxpayers Association, Lucas O’Connor makes three points worth responding to: One false, one irrelevant, and one true. The false claim is that I criticized the union- and Democratic-backed group because of its ideology. No, the deception is what I criticized. When groups advertise themselves under a false flag …
UPDATED: Union Backers, Democrats Behind ‘Nonpartisan’ Middle Class Taxpayers’ Association
UPDATE, 1:50 pm July 11: Here’s a revealing Tweet from Murtaza Baxamusa, a board member of the Middle Class Taxpayers Association: Why is a supposed protector of middle class taxpayers advertising a Daily Kos story that claims Americans want higher taxes? Answer: Because according to Baxamusa, it’s a “fact” that Americans are undertaxed! How about a truth-in-advertising name change to …
Private Donations And Public Interest In Balboa Park
Lucas O’Connor over at Two Cathedrals has raised some interesting questions about the implications of private donors exerting influence over public space and services. His post begins: A new front opened last night in the saga of Balboa Park, with the Old Globe’s Executive Producer emailing the theater’s email list with a pitch for the Plaza de Panama Committee’s recommendations …
Socialists and Fascists, Gathered Merrily
Union thugs and greedy corporate oppressors are people too. And pretty nice ones, judging from the crowd last night at the third meetup between what Erica Holloway aptly referred to as “Rostrafarians, our liberal darling blogger friends at Two Cathedrals, and those hipster CityBeat cats.” While the national media bemoans excessive partisanship and political polarization, it’s nice to see some …
Chris Tomlinson, Lefty Texas Political Activist, Magically Becomes ‘Objective’ AP Reporter
Last year, Chris Tomlinson was known as a progressive (IOW left-leaning) political activist in Texas. But the year 2011 has been very good to him. Tomlinson’s success at reinventing himself bears an important lesson for us all. Tomlinson was managing editor of the Texas Observer, which describes the goal of its publisher, the Texas Democracy Foundation, as promoting “progressive change …
California Democrats Impose Counterproductive ‘Amazon Tax’
California’s Democratic leadership expects to reap $200 million a year for the state from the new “Amazon tax” just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. But as with previous tax and fee hikes imposed on the long-suffering state, it’s going to lose California a lot of jobs and bring in a lot less money than expected. Amazon.com said it …
SD CityBeat: Standing For Principle, Against Obsessive Partisanship
SD CityBeat has condemned a threat by Jess Durfee, chairman of the San Diego Democratic Party, to blacklist any Democrats who dare endorse a Republican, even if the office is nonpartisan. As reported by Voice of San Diego’s Liam Dillon, Durfee’s ire was directed at Democrats who endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for mayor of San Diego. CityBeat wrote in its editorial: …
Time Magazine’s Constitutional Illiterate, Richard Stengel
Richard “Scholar” Stengel, Time’s managing editor, has written a stupendously error-packed essay on the U.S. Constitution. This monument to ahistoricity contains howlers such as a claim that the Constitution makes it “… impossible for someone who was not physically born here to run for President.” Tell that to John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Stengel apparently …
Journalists Don’t Connect Dots Between Bias, Poor Readership
As a card-carrying member of the once-powerful mainstream media, I keep reading various laments on journalism sites about repeated layoffs and how horrible this is for journalists and democracy. (The two are identical, you see). I sometimes feel sorry for my peers, but also exasperated when they continue to churn out articles predictably biased toward the left. As the example …
Don’t Call RedState ‘Ultraconservative’, Traitor Lover!
Erick Erickson has taken umbrage at WaPo “Right Turn” columnist Jennifer Rubin, in a post about an anti-abortion pledge, for using that adjective for the conservative group blog. RedState, Erickson says, is not “ultraconservative,” it is a right-of-center blog that allows a wide range of views among its writers. Moreover, just because a writer takes a position doesn’t mean that …
What We Now Know About The Harding Quote
In my previous post, I raised the question of how authentic Harding’s quote was about being unfit for the presidency – a quote widely repeated without any sourcing and time element. I could find just one possible source, which I described thusly: “The closest I’ve been able to find as a source is Wikiquote, which cites a 1939 book by …
UPDATED: Is Warren Harding Quote Spurious? Let’s Help Dave Maass Find Out
UPDATE #2 – Let’s be nice to Dave. We’ve had some enjoyable sparring, but I don’t want it to shed more heat than light. I instigated this, so I’d like to tone this down. —————————— UPDATE: Dave Maass replies in the comments. I append one tiny question he failed to answer. ——————————————————— “I am not fit for this office and …
Project Gunrunner Emails Released By Issa
Item of interest from Michelle Malkin, news on Project Gunrunner plus emails from Rostrafarian Darrell Issa: I’ve been keeping you abreast of all the Obama administration’s Project Gunrunner stonewalling since March (links/chronology below). Today, vigilant GOP House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa is holding another hearing to pressure Team Obama for the whole truth. On Monday, Issa and …
James O’Keefe Tells His Story At Eagle Forum San Diego
There’s a lot of misinformation about James O’Keefe’s various investigations into the defunct ACORN, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), NPR’s biases, and his other activities. O’Keefe discussed that misinformation and gave his perspective Saturday at the Eagle Forum San Diego convention. O’Keefe didn’t try to bug Landrieu’s office, as a lot of the media and left-wing echo chambers have falsely claimed. …
Godly Money, Church & ObamaCare: Eagle Forum San Diego Talk
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute spoke on June 11 to the Eagle Forum San Diego convention about cases he said aren’t publicized in the mainstream media. In this 10-minute clip, Dacus discusses: A decision allowing “In God We Trust” to remain on the currency, One forbidding the County of San Diego from prohibiting a church to open, and …
The New Media Insurgents – O’Keefe, Hartsock and Whittle
You don’t need hundreds of thousands of dollars to document a story that makes a difference. What you need are: — A willingness to expend some shoe leather — Inexpensive videocameras like those flooding the market these days, and — The understanding of how new media has busted the oligopoly of traditional media once known as gatekeepers. James O’Keefe, Christian …
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