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You read about it on SDRostra.  The National Womens Veterans Association of America (NWVAA), a group founded to advocate for women who have been raped, assaulted or harassed while serving their country, is hosting a gala next month.  The group originally planned on giving Mayor Bob Filner it’s first ever “Lifetime Achievement Award” and invited the Mayor to address them …

Just checking.  I bring this up because “sex” scandals are so juicy to watch that we forget the useful purpose they serve–to deflect attention from corruption and malfeasance.  To wit: Whitewater (1997)—Lewinsky (1998) Benghazi (9/11/2012)—Petraeus (11/12/2012) The Obama Administration has been absolutely incredible in its ability to inflict media ADD, all of which is eventually called a partisan attack by …

Last week, Congressman John Campbell announced that he would retire from the House of Representatives.  Already, potential candidates are pondering the 2014 election to fill his seat.  State Senator Mimi Walters announced that rather than run for a spot on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, she would run for the vacant seat in Congress.  Today, she laid out the …

When Obamacare is implemented, on January 1, 2014, one of two things is going to happen — your monthly premiums are going to skyrocket or your coverage will be worse.  Despite the prestidigitation offered by Covered California, cursory analysis shows that San Diegans are looking at much higher insurance premiums next year. Let me repeat that.  San Diegans will be …

Voters like fighters.  I’m pretty sure that is one of the reasons the far-left likes Bob Filner — he ain’t afraid to draw a line and defend that turf.  Republicans do a pretty good job at talking about “making government work,” but to really capture the hearts and minds of future voters Republican candidates should be talking a lot more …

Second Amendment supporters are often painted as extremists for believing that the natural right to life should not be infringed.  The regulators argue that “reasonable” regulations can and should exist in a “civil society.”  Why then,  is the right to vote considered to be “unalienable”  by those very same regulators?  Are those who believe the right to vote should not …

Was the terrorist attack on the “diplomatic outpost” in Benghazi, Libya ultimately the fault of Republicans in Congress? In a word… No…and Yes….”probably maybe” might be a more accurate answer. Let’s first start with the obvious — if  President Obama hadn’t invaded Libya, intervening in a foreign civil war, the attack on the “diplomatic outpost” in Benghazi never would have …

Yesterday’s special elections are showing that, in California, political parties may be losing influence to Labor unions.  I’m going to look at four races, held yesterday, and approach them from the point-of-view that each one (in overwhelmingly Democratic Party controlled districts) was a statement either for or against the most powerful rent-seeker in California politics, labor unions. Lorena Gonzalez won …

Shawn Steel will be speaking to the UCSD College Republicans this Monday night, at 6PM, in the Thurgood Marshall Room at the Price Center West on the UCSD campus.  Shawn is a former CRP Chairman and is currently the National Committeeman, from the California Republican Party, to the Republican National Committee. You may recall that I encouraged  conservatives to contact …

Nathan Fletcher is a member of the Democratic Party.  This doesn’t surprise me.  I knew when he made the choice to throw the “independent” Hail Mary pass that, if he wanted a political future, he would have to (a) move to another state and try to woo Republican voters there or (b) join with the Democrats.  Getting elected in a …

…or Massachusetts and the surrounding states?  …or the whole country? I logged into Facebook last Friday evening as I rode the train home from downtown San Diego.  I was thrilled to see that the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was apprehended.  Facebook friends were posting nice tributes to the Boston PD on their status updates.  I was even …

“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree!”– Senator Russell B. Long As the world mourns former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, I think it’s amusing to note that a new tax scheme ultimately did in her political career.  Thatcher abolished the “domestic rates” plan, an assessment based on the rental value of property, and instituted …

In my last post, I covered how the RNC rules change changed the Republican National Convention  from a volunteer-centric  political process to an autocratic, candidate-focused pep rally.  The Romney campaign team thought they had the general election in the bag and wanted to insure that a primary challenge, in 2016, would fail.  Many convention delegates were so focused on unseating …

The grassroots supporters of the Republican Party were pushed aside at the 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC).  Anticipating a Romney Presidency, Romney campaign attorney Ben Ginsberg put forth and lobbied for a permanent change, in the way RNC delegates were chosen, to guarantee that a (expected) President Romney wouldn’t face a primary challenge in 2016.   It was controversial.  Convention Chairman …

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.”–  President Abraham Lincoln President Obama used this Lincoln quote in his State of the Union address as a rationalization for an interventionist government.  …

San Diego’s major newspaper, the UT-San Diego, called for the Solana Beach City Council to repeal the plastic bag ban today: Now that Solana Beach officials have agreed to revisit parts of their plastic bag ban because shoppers are complaining about paying a dime for paper bags, we have a suggestion: Bag the whole thing. Lesa Heebner, newly re-elected Solana …

We live in a kleptocracy where institutionalized theft is practiced by crony capitalists operating under an increasingly fascist system.  I can no longer refer to our government officials as socialists because socialists have the gumption to steal and operate private property.  The simple fact is that American government officials are lazy socialists, more accurately described as fascists.  They let people …

I’ll open up with what I thought was the best thing I read all week.  Zach Foster described how modern libertarians suffer from Back to the Future fantasies so much that they forget that they’re winning the argument:  At the present time we’re faced with the great tasks of taking over the Republican Party, seizing the reigns of the State, …