Last night, the Escondido city council unanimously supported former high school boardmember, Michael Morasco, to fill the vacant council seat. It only took one motion and vote to confirm Morasco, who applied along with 24 other candidates to fill the seat vacated by Sam Abed when he became mayor. See the story HERE. Many qualified candidates were interested in …
House Democrats pass the DREAM Act
After a spirited debate by both parties the contentious DREAM Act legislation passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 216-198. While the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) legislation may have admirable intentions in a time of severe economic duress, American children are the ones falling behind and losing their opportunities for higher education. …
14-year-old cartel assassin’s mom arrested in San Diego
The mother of the suspected 14-year-old cartel assassin responsible for at least four beheadings has been arrested and charged with being in the United States illegally. Border Patrol agents arrested Yolanda Lugo Jimenez, 43, at her San Diego apartment on Monday according to a federal complaint. Court documents show Lugo was deported in September of 1997 and admitted that she …
Holy Grail?
At a recent press conference, President Obama, describing the compromise he struck up with Republican leaders, grudgingly admitted that an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the “wealthy” will live another two years. He then preceded to explain how protecting that smaller percentage of rich folk is the “Republican Holy Grail.” I guess it takes a would-be Messiah to …
Gore Effect Hits Global Warming Conference
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 …
Dirty ploy justifies need to undermine Israel
Hold onto your hummus! Divestment proves to be another attack on Israel’s legitimacy. My latest from The Washington Times Communities section–December 8th, 2010.
DeMaio to Hold Three Budget Town Halls Next Week
Councilmember DeMaio will be holding three Town Hall meetings next week in Point Loma, City Heights and Rancho Bernardo to discuss his Roadmap to Recovery Budget plan which will eliminate the structural budget deficit without raising taxes and avoids cuts to core City services. Public Input and participation is very important to the success of the Roadmap to Recovery Plan. …
More DREAM Act inaccuracies – California colleges full
Lawmakers, advocacy groups and members of the media have been touting a lot of facts and monetary figures regarding the proposed immigration bill called the DREAM Act. And to make matters worse, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has introduced four different versions of the bill, hoping one will find favor with members of Congress. While the DREAM Act (Development, …
Judge Larry Stirling Dissents: His useful History on San Diego’s municipal trash collection System
Judge Larry Stirling (ret) reviews efforts to change San Diego’s long-standing trash collection system. He served the 7th City Council district from 1977 to 1980. He responds to a recent news item about trash the City allegedly is “not required by law to pick up” and to stop “picking up trash for free.” Later a State Assemblyman, State Senator and Superior Court judge, Mr. Stirling sees this as Revisionist History. ____________________________________________ …
Counting the Prop. D Votes
Late last week, the San Diego Registrar of Voters released the voter canvass files from the November 2nd, 2010 election. These files provide the precinct-by-precinct vote breakdown for all the elections in San Diego County. I found lots of interesting data, but Rostra policywonks might be intrigued to know how the vote came down on the City of San Diego’s …
Liberal economist lauds Wal-Mart effects
Rostra commenter “Gwendolyn” and I have exchanged acerbic comments here on the Wal-Mart ban. Naturally, she cited labor union/left wing “studies” intended to show how evil Wal-Mart is. Of course, I could counter with free market-friendly website rebuttals. But I don’t have to. Instead, let’s go to an impartial source — a leading economist in the Obama administration who has …
ICE’s shady bookkeeping blurs U.S. deportation numbers
The Center for Investigative Reporting uncovered some shady deportation record keeping that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put into place in order to drive up the Obama Administration’s expulsion numbers. One of the first Republicans to speak out against ICE’s record keeping methods was House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas). Smith is on the record stating that Congress …
San Diego Republican vote Topped registration by 14% in November 2010 ……. #1 for Southern California counties
Here at the SD Rostra Number Crunching Institute, we found intriguing data in the Secretary of State’s final report of election 2010. We Compared final pre-election GOP registration percentages, to the average Republican vote for Governor and US Senator. Among the 8 southern California counties, the Republican Party of San Diego scored a 1st-place finish, running a full 14.1% ahead …
Wal-Mart going to San Diego ballot?
Posted on my blog: http://Walmart-SanDiego.notlong.com Is the San Diego Wal-Mart superstore ban going to the ballot? by Richard Rider 4 December, 2010 The San Diego Union-Tribune (the U-T) is doing a survey on San Diego’s new Wal-Mart ban. Normally I’m not too interested in such unscientific polls, but this one might affect Wal-Mart’s decision to go to the voters via …
Dr. Laura outwits the Censors … starts Satellite radio show Jan. 3 on XM and Sirius — She found Freedom in Outer Space!
Dr. Laura’s hugely successful (8 million listeners nationally) radio show will sign off conventional radio on Friday, Dec. 31st at 3 p.m. Pacific Time. But she will be right back the next Monday at 11:00 a.m. PST via satellite radio for her usual 3 hours. Her move to satellite radio is the brain-wave of Mel Karmazin, the radio genius who now heads XM and …
The New Journalism, by Your BFF
I am not one to think that reporters or staffers for elected officials can’t have their own opinions or personal lives. Yet, as some of them have learned the hard way in recent months, when it comes to the use of social media, it may be difficult for readers (or “followers”) to easily differentiate between the personal and the professional, …
McDonalds gives customers fliers on Latino scholarships – DREAM Act?
A San Diego McDonald’s® has been handing out college scholarship information fliers published in English/Spanish for Latino customers informing them of the scholarship opportunities for Hispanics the Golden Arches offer each year. The RMHC/HACER division of McDonald’s® is a scholarship program directed towards Hispanic students. The website indicates that more than 14,000 Latinos have been awarded scholarships, assisting in Hispanic …
San Diego Mayor’s Race Part 2
It looks like the establishment candidate for Mayor will be Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher. Gossip downtown says that Fletcher has secured the support of Mayor Jerry Sanders, and that he is talking to the Mayor’s political consultant, Tom Shepard. It’s also circulating that Fletcher and DA Bonnie Dumanis have an understanding that if he runs (which looks certain) she will not, …
Openly Same-Sex Soldiers: Will The Tolerance Work Both Ways?
Originally published in Bob Siegel’s Washington Times column, Dec. 3, 2010. Reprinted by permission. As the discussion regarding voiding the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” continues in Washington D.C., some simple, but honest, questions seem in order. I request that you, the reader, recognize that they are put forth respectfully to anybody (gay or straight, civilian or military, Democrat or Republican) …
Mexico arrests a 14-year-old U.S. citizen cartel killer
A 14-year-old U.S. citizen with ties to San Diego was arrested by Mexican authorities who charged the young boy was responsible for the murders of cartel enemies and a couple of the killings even involved beheadings. The boy is suspected of working for the South Pacific Cartel run by Hector Beltran Leyva who took over the cartel after his brother, …
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