Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2013 — President Obama may have a lot of faults, but stupidity isn’t one of them. He still knows how to play his base like a fine violin. While part of that base ― the White House Press Corps ― seems to have rediscovered the long, lost art of …
Ruth Institute: First Annual Gala June 2
http://ruthinstitute.org/ITAF13/gala/index.html Join the Ruth Institute in Mission Valley on June 2 for their First Annual Gala Dinner! There will be a live auction and raffle with fantastic prizes, dinner, and live music. Patrick Coffin of Catholic Answers will be the Master of Ceremonies, and Tim Clemente is the Keynote Speaker. Meet Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, president and founder of the …
Yesterday’s Elections: Running Towards and Away From Big Labor
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 …
ObamaCare / Covered California update
This landed in my email inbox today: Covered California to release list of health plans, rates Sacramento Business Journal by Kathy Robertson – Monday, May 20, 2013: Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held …
Governor’s State Budget – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This op-ed originally appeared in the Flashreport As budgets go in California there is much to be liked about the Governor’s May revise. First, it balances and does again reduce the accumulated structural deficit (internal and external borrowed monies used to plug holes since 1999) projected to fall from a height of $35 billion to $26 billion. The budget establishes …
What a Week: Some Fun and Some Video
Jay Leno: Do you know that this week marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate hearings? For those of you too young to remember, back then the Administration had an enemies list. They were spying on reporters. They used the IRS to harass groups they didn’t like. Thank God those days are gone forever. David Letterman: People always say this …
UCSD College Republicans Host National RNC Committeeman Shawn Steel, May 20, 2013
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 …
Common Core State Standards in Education: Part Three — Data will be collected and shared about students
The last two weeks SD Rostra published Part One and Part Two of a presentation by Citizens for Quality Education made during the April 22 Poway Unified School District Board meeting on the implementation of Common Core State Standards in schools. Below is Part Three of that four-part presentation. The concerns expressed by the group are of impact to all …
10News: Chula Vista mom hires attorney so 6-year-old son could sing song about God at talent show
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – The family of a local kindergartner says their son was devastated after he was told he couldn’t perform at his school’s upcoming talent show because he wanted to sing a song about God. Read it and watch the video.
Benghazi attack hearings significance missed by CNN, MSNBC
Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times SAN DIEGO, May 10, 2013 — Unlike CNN and MSNBC, Fox News offered extensive live coverage of Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearings. Three courageous whistleblowers gave testimony that contradicted previous reports from the White House and State Department about exactly what happened in last September’s Benghazi attack killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three …
Affluent Californians Still Contemplating Relocating to Avoid Prop. 30 Tax Increases
One quarter of those surveyed considering moving out of state A quarter of the residents in California’s most affluent communities are considering relocating out of state in response to the increase in state income taxes, according to a report released today by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR). A scientific poll (n=401) conducted by Competitive Edge Research …
Encinitas’ Prop A – Deeply Flawed and widely opposed
An impressive list of bi-partisan folks and organizations have lined up to oppose Encinitas’ Prop A, the deeply flawed initiative coming to a very expensive taxpayer funded special election on June 18th of this year! Check it out. As the following list shows, the opposition to Prop A is very broad and does not simply fall along the standard developer, …
Boston bombings, Tea Party, the media, and hypocrisy
Originally published by Communities @ Washington Times SAN DIEGO, May 4, 2013 — It’s been several weeks since Boston’s Patriot Day nightmare. We have long since learned that the Tsarnaev brothers who set off two bombs were influenced by Jihadist teachings from the Internet and from extremists who sometimes spoke at a Cambridge mosque. Although we do not yet know …
Co-Ed Bathroom Bill Passes State Assembly
From Capitol Resource Institute… Assembly Bill 1266 passed out of the Assembly floor on a party-line vote this morning. AB 1266 forces all California schools to allow students to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and facilities consistent with his or her gender identity. “This bill allows children of any gender to participate on any sports team, and enter into …
Common Core State Standards in Education: Part Two
Last week SD Rostra published Part One of a recent presentation by Citizens for Quality Education made during the April 22 Poway Unified School District Board meeting on the implementation of Common Core State Standards in schools. Below is Part Two of that four-part presentation. The concerns expressed by the group are of impact to all schools, not only those …
CA-52 Poll goes International
I have a number of google alerts for news articles on local officials and candidates. This piece from a major UK newspaper interested me because it discusses Carl DeMaio and how his possible candidacy touches on larger national issues for 2014.
Plescia for Supervisor, Please.
With term limits and aging careers set to impact the current Board of Supervisors over the next four to six years, the partisan makeup of the Board will almost certainly change. Based on voter registration statistics and other demographic treads, the Board is set to change to a long term 3-2 Democrat majority. But that’s only if we don’t take …
May 7-9 Homeowner Event to Help Families Plan for the Future
by Councilmember Scott Sherman As a lifelong resident of San Diego’s 7th District, and now as the District’s elected representative, I am always looking for ways to improve our residents’ quality of life. Through my years as a San Diegan, I have strived to find different ways to connect with our community. I have found that community events are one of the key components to realizing the full …
Fletcher goes right to work for his latest party
Email from a failed mayoral candidate… From: Nathan Fletcher Date: May 4, 2013, 12:22:31 PM Subject: BREAKING BREAKING: Tea Party Favorite Carl DeMaio Eyeing Run for CA-52 Recent news out of Washington D.C. is that Tea Party extremists are recruiting one of their own — failed San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio — to run against my friend Scott Peters. There is no …
An Open Letter To Fletcher for Mayor Supporters
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 …
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