Yesterday’s U-T headline announced that San Diego County’s unemployment rate had increased to 10.5% during the “summer of recovery.” Unemployment in San Diego County ticked up in July to 10.5 percent, up from a revised 10.4 percent in June, reaching a high not seen for nearly a year, according to data released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. So imagine …
Restore Courage and Stand with Israel Wednesday, August 24th in Point Loma
Want to Stand with Israel this August 24th in San Diego and don’t know where to go? Head over to Point Loma! Yours truly, Christians United for Israel of California, and Eagle Forum of San Diego are hosting a “Restoring Courage” viewing party, potluck and Q&A session to stand with our greatest ally in the Middle East: Israel. This is …
U-T Watchdog Finds Errors In NYT’s Issa Story — Plus, My Place Overlooks A Golf Course!
The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Watchdog team did some excellent investigative work examining errors Rep. Darrell Issa’s office claimed in last week’s New York Times story on Issa. Watchdog found some serious inaccuracies. Among them, Watchdog confirmed Issa’s claim that he bought a medical office building for $16.6 million, not the much lower price claimed by the New York Times. Thus, …
The Filner-Fletcher Letter
Bob Filner for Mayor 2012 1850 5th Avenue Suite 6 San Diego, CA 92101 Fletcher for Mayor 2012 4079 Governor Drive #329 San Diego, CA 92122 August 18, 2011 Carl DeMaio for San Diego Mayor 2012 PO Box 27227 San Diego, CA 92198 Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor 2012 110 West C Street Suite 1300 San Diego, CA 92101 Councilman Carl …
County Redistricting – Response to Steve Danon
As I have already made clear, I support the implementation of an independent commission to redraw county supervisorial lines. The difference between me and Steve Danon, who wrote to the North County Times about this issue, is that he tries to write commentaries that leave out facts in the hopes that you won’t find out what he omitted. And although …
What Did Darrell Issa Do With DEI? Another NYT Piece To Consider
UPDATE, Sunday morning: Here’s a piece about Issa by my most-excellent North County Times colleague, Mark Walker: After eight months at work as the Republican Party’s chief watchdog in Congress, Vista Rep. Darrell Issa has yet to find any “smoking guns” revealing corruption in the Obama administration. But in his role as chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government …
Obama Administration’s Illegal Illegal Immigration Plan
The administration announced Thursday that it will cease deporting those identified as illegal immigrants who pose no threat to public safety or national security so that it can focus on catching and expelling criminals who do. That’s the purported rationale. Let’s look at the overall policy of the administration with a view to actual results. Step 1. Don’t enforce the …
Baxamusa Changes Headline To Be Just Misleading, Not Totally False
Better than nothing, I guess. Murtaza Baxamusa has changed his false headline charging that SD Rostra published the home address of labor leader Lorena Gonzalez into something less wrong, but still misleading. While the creep who broke Gonzalez’ home window deserves to go to jail, this headline is still a smear that presumes what there is no evidence for. (I …
Otay Water District Board’s Blatant Abuse Doesn’t Stop at Employee Benefits
Guest Column by Chris Shilling With the recent highly controversial votes to approve lifetime healthcare benefits at the Otay Water District for all employees and their spouses, the attention has finally turned to Otay’s board of directors. This is long overdue as this board has spent the last decade squandering ratepayer money while increasing water rates to pay for their …
Darrell Issa Demands Retraction of NYT Story, Claims 13 Errors
The office of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), has followed up with its complaint of errors in a recent New York Times story with another list of errors — and a demand for a retraction for the 13 claimed errors. I’m posting the entire press release below. Here’s my original blog post on the controversy. Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation’s blog, which …
DEA Agents bust Iraqi-Sinaloa cartel drug smuggling/explosive ring in San Diego
Federal agents in San Diego have broken up a drug trafficking ring involving Iraqi immigrants who worked with one of Mexico’s biggest drug cartel. Approximately 60 Iraqi immigrants were rounded up and arrested just east of San Diego after the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) completed a six-month investigation. The DEA Agents also collected drugs, grenades, assault weapons and homemade explosives. …
UPDATED — Can Murtaza Baxamusa Tell The Truth?
UPDATE: Expect a swarm of zombies from the lovely people at Daily Kos. Baxamusa has comfirmed my expectations of his character: Not only has he kept his lie about Rostra in place, he’s put his post there on DK. Read the comments, if you’re brave, and you’ll see just what I mean by lovely. For a taste of the reason …
Bob Siegel Defends President Obama
Let’s stop all the nonsense about President Obama’s vacation plans for Martha’s Vineyard. So he goes on vacation! Big deal! It’s not like other presidents haven’t gone on vacation. How many vacations did George Bush take? Even if our former president took less, Obama deserves extra rest, because he has a far more stressful job. After all, those mean spirited …
401(k) – Better for Workers
Is a promise that won’t be kept really a promise at all? I was thinking about the issue of defined contribution plans (401(k)) vs defined benefit plans for city workers that will be on the ballot in June 2012. The Voice of San Diego summarized the issue neatly: It [the ballot measure] was an agreement to unite and to set …
LA Times Article On Fast And Furious – With Paper Trail
The Los Angeles Times provides more information about the ATF’s botched Fast and Furious gun smuggling program. Firearms illegally trafficked under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program turned up at the scenes of at least 11 “violent crimes” in this country in addition to being involved in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona last year, …
Who Reads Rostra: Keith Olbermann
Last night our own Diana Palacios tweeted this… Honestly? Watching election coverage isn’t as fun now that @keitholbermann is gone. That guy invented the on-air nervous breakdown. It only took Olbermann an hour to respond to Diana… Your site refers to the “arrogant ruling class” of CA as including the prison guards’ union. If you need a laugh, read your …
Escondido Police fight to stay competitive while enforcing the law
When it comes to law enforcement, the Escondido Police Department tends to lead California regarding rule-of-law policies. Police Chief Jim Maher prides himself on enforcing immigration and traffic safety laws on the books-sometimes to the chagrin of illegal-immigration activists. So when the issue of officer salaries boiled to the surface, the Chief knew negotiations wouldn’t be easy. The Escondido Police …
Jon Stewart “outs” Fox media bias against Ron Paul
I often rail about the liberal media bias, but fair is fair — consider the FOX media bias. We have to rely on the acerbic wit of Jon Stewart to highlight media attempts to spin the Iowa straw poll outcome sans Ron Paul. Thankfully, Stewart IS quite entertaining to watch. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012—corn-polled-edition—ron-paul—the-top-tier No, I’m not here touting Ron Paul as my …
NY Times Story Blasts Issa, Who Attacks Story As Error-Filled
The New York Times has accused Rep. Darrell Issa of improperly mixing his private business with his duties as a congressman, or at least appearing to have done so. And Issa’s supporters are crying foul, pointing to what they say are major factual errors in the article by Eric Lichtblau. One major error is beyond dispute and has already been …
Assemblyman Jeffries Endorses Waldron for State Assembly
(Escondido, CA) – Escondido Councilwoman Marie Waldron announced her campaign received the endorsement of Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries. Assemblyman Jeffries currently represents much of the newly created 75th Assembly district. Jeffries is unable to run for re-election due to term limits.The announcement comes shortly after the state’s redistricting commission released the final draft of the legislative boundaries. Waldron is running in …
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