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John Culea, spokesman for Supervisor Bill Horn, bluntly criticized media accuracy in its coverage of the supervisor and its competence in general Thursday night at a panel sponsored by the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. Whatever I write can’t possibly match the experience of seeing Culea dissect the media, including challenging a Nazi comparison made to Horn. So I’m …

This is a followup to my earlier post on AB 962 being overturned by a state judge Tuesday.  Read the post for the background. The Associated Press ran a story Wednesday on the decision. Written by Garance Burke, the story predictably dragged in the Arizona shootings. (Burke is a lefty; read her paper on  “Indigenous Mexican Migrants” (PDF), which refers …

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times published a blog post about the gun law being invalidated. It was date-stamped 7:31 p.m. Tuesday night, hours after gun-interested bloggers had the story. Still, it’s the first MSM account of the law being overturned I’ve seen. The post mostly repeats what other bloggers have said. But there’s one nugget of new information: “Sen. Kevin …

Starting tonight, Thursday Jan. 18, The Rick Amato Show begins airing in the Inland Empire on on 590 KTIE radio. Jim Sills had the news a few weeks ago, although Amato’s start was set back a week from the original Jan. 11 date. KTIE will pick his show beginning at 8 p.m., its second hour. In the same announcement today, …

Now I understand. Click graphic for video:(Disclaimer: This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, the North County Times.)

It’s an understandable error. To the Eastern press, we Rostrafarians all look and sound alike; so debonnaire and intelligent. What’s really embarrassing for media watchdog Kurtz is that he didn’t correct the error in his purported interview with Issa in a Nov. 27 Daily Beast column until Jan. 11, although by his own admission he was told of the error …

(UPDATED: See end of article for more info) As a card-carrying member of SD Rostra’s Tiny Libertarian Conspiracy, I’m ecstatic that Gov. Jerry Brown (how strange not to say this in the past tense) plans to help balance California’s budget by ending the corporate welfare of redevelopment agencies. It’s long been a scandal how these agencies have been abused by …

Cross-posted from my North County Times blog In the manipulative world of politics, interest groups with stealth agendas often name themselves for the opposite of their true intent. So if you see a press release from a group named “Committee to Save Baby Seals,” it might well be lobbying for fewer restrictions on killing baby seals. So when I got …

Rick Roberts incorrectly said yesterday (Wednesday, Dec. 29) that the Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists is demanding that journalists stop using the phrase “illegal immigrants” because it is offensive to Latinos. Roberts is absolutely right that such an action would be ridiculous. However, the SPJ (on whose local board I sit), hasn’t taken such an action, either …

(Crossposted from my North County Times Sci-Tech blog.) According to those espousing global warming climate change climate instability theory, human emissions of CO2 are producing warmer colder winters and less more snow in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a few examples. Bolded parts are my emphasis. WARMER: “Why are winters warming up so much faster over Northern Hemisphere continents than over …

That’s the standard disclaimer of believers in anthropogenic  global warming whenever there’s a period of unusual cold: you can’t discern climate from singular weather events. And it’s true, although some AGW believers sing a different tune when the weather is unusually warm.  In those cases, we’re told, the warm weather is a foretaste of what we can expect from global …

(Cross-posted from my North County Times blog) I wrote earlier this week about the increasing threat to the water supply in the Southwest United States, especially to California. Here’s a post to continue the conversation. And if you want to look over the comments left on my story, go here. One of the things I pointed out in the story …

Rep. Brian P. Bilbray was not in Congress Wednesday so he could attend the swearing-in of his eponymous son as councilman in Imperial Beach, where the elder Bilbray was mayor many years ago. From the story in CityBeat’s Last Blog On Earth. In all, the Republican from California’s 50th District missed 15 votes on Wednesday as the Democratic majority attempted …

Unseasonably cold weather plagued last year’s Copenhagen global warming conference, which was a disaster. It’s at work this year as well in Cancun. The “Gore Effect,” as it’s called in honor of the high priest of global Warming, Al Gore, doesn’t prove global warming isn’t happening. But since global warming believers like to seize on individual weather events, such as …

Over at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism, a caution to Libertarians and Christian conservatives not to fall prey to the MSM’s wishful thinking about a supposedly impending Tea Party civil war. (The second link was to an article in Newsweek by Colin Woodard in which the left-leaning journalist writes about his dream that the Tea Party will implode). Dana Loesch writes: …

UPDATE: As promised, video of Chuck Devore’s spirited speech at the launch of Rick Amato’s Web site, AmatoTalk.com, is now available, here with Part 1, and here with Part 2. Again, apologies for the mediocre quality of the video. ————————————————————— Conservative talk show host Rick Amato held the official launch party for AmatoTalk.com, where you can get your own blog, …

A while back I explained why “fact-checks” such as Politifact should be viewed with suspicion. The “facts” may be no more than the reporter’s opinion dressed up with factual-sounding language. Here’s another example of Politifact’s ability to contort the truth so it appears false. In this case, the target of Politifact’s disinformation is Rand Paul, as the Washington Examiner’s Mark …

Chow chow chow! Jerry Sanders can splurge on his Thanksgiving meal courtesy of the San Diego Labor Council, thanks to the gift of a can of delicious cat food. The San Diego mayor was given the feline treat and a handwritten note courtesy of Lorena Gonzalez, the Labor Council’s head, according to a Friday press release from the council. The …

The incoming GOP-led House of Representatives has an ideal target to show it’s concerned about the economy: cutting back the Obama administration’s massive and unprofitable taxpayer subsidies of “green energy.” The Solyndra debacle is an excellent case in point. This company makes solar panels, and last year received $535 million in taxpayer loans.for a factory expansion that was much-praised by …