If enacted, Proposition 23 will suspend California’s global warming law until unemployment falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. When that takes place, Prop. 23 goes back into effect. Backers say their intent is to ensure that California’s horrendous economy, with an unemployment rate above 12 percent and possibly double that in reality, isn’t further crippled. That’s straightforward enough, …
Mayor Sanders Opposes Prop. 23
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and other local political leaders have announced they oppose Proposition 23, the state initiative to suspend California’s global warming law until California’s unemployment rate falls. The law, AB32, places mandates on businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions believed by many scientists to cause global warming. Backers of the initiative say it will protect California jobs …
Leaked DHS memo outlines amnesty without Congress involvement
A newly leaked internal Department of Homeland Security memo reveals a way to grant amnesty without Congress debating comprehensive immigration reform or casting a vote. This is the third inside memo to be leaked to the media regarding the Obama Administration’s intent to legalize 20 million illegal aliens currently residing in America unlawfully. The first memos came out of Immigration …
Noonan Hits It On the Head Re: Tea Party
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 Why It’s Time for the Tea Party The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it. By PEGGY NOONAN This fact marks our political age: The pendulum is swinging faster and in shorter arcs than it ever has in our lifetimes. Few foresaw the earthquake of 2008 in 2006. No board-certified …
President Obama discusses amnesty with top Democratic lawmakers
In an Oval Office meeting, President Obama met with U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and U.S. Representatives Nydia Velazquez and Luis Gutierrez. During the inner-circle pow-wow the President reiterated his commitment for reaching across the aisle and bringing Republicans together and passing comprehensive immigration legislation. Obama said in a statement from the White House that the “reform must provide lasting and …
UCSD YAF Chair Gabriella Hoffman to Speak at Oceanside 10-10-10 Pre-Election TEA Party Event!
I have the esteemed honor of speaking at the Oceanside 10-10-10 Pre-Election TEA Party event on behalf of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). Be sure to come and join in on the fun! It’s a conservative takeover, and it’s time for Americans to capture back our nation from this awful administration. Hope to see you there! Event Details are below: …
Be Careful, My Fellow Conservatives. We’re Not Out Of This Yet.
Conservatives are in near euphoria as November approaches. All reliable polls suggest that Republicans will take back the House. Some indicators even see the Senate changing hands. Assuming Obama doesn’t create some crisis and find a way to blame Conservatives, I am planning a celebration on election night. But only a brief one. Then, we must get ready for 2012. …
4 Million More
So 4 million more Republicans than Democrats voted in primary elections nationally. This is the first time this has happened since the Great Depression, says the news. Tells me a little about who has the energy in this election. Also makes me think Zapf’s chances are pretty good in the 6th San Diego Council seat – an area that seems …
SD Chief Operating Officer’s Memo Claims That City Has Made “Significant Reductions”
I’m truly puzzled how one can come to this conclusion. Below are financial figures for the city by several departments over the course of 2003 to 2009. A few occasional departments show a sporadic reductions, but one doesn’t have to be financial wizard to recognize that they general trend is clearly increased spending year over year. Such inaccurate language from someone so high up in the private sector would end their career.
Amnesty debate heats up with the DREAM Act
Senate leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will add the controversial DREAM Act legislation into a Defense Department spending bill essentially attaching amnesty for some to the weaponry and supplies needs for the wars in the Middle East. The Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM Act) would provide a road to citizenship for young illegal aliens if their parents brought …
Private library company in San Diego
With our San Diego city council slashing local library hours and services — cutting the library budget 24% — perhaps it’s time for our wise leaders to look at what Riverside County did over a decade ago. The county, with 34 branches, contracted out the operation of their libraries to a private firm (LSSI), and today the county supervisors are …
A perilous journey to US includes kidnapping and death by the cartels
A perilous journey awaited a 21-year-old Managua, Nicaraguan man. His journey from Central America began with dreams of a life in America, but notorious Mexican cartel members of Los Zetas promptly ended his northbound trek and kidnapped him short of his goal. Family members of the kidnapped man say they are unable to pay the $4,000 ransom. The kidnapped man’s …
NO on PROP D Volunteer Day: Phone Banks and Deliver Signs
Help Us Stop the Sales Tax Increase in the City of San Diego! Join Councilmember Carl DeMaio and dozens of volunteers for a fun day of urging voters to vote NO on Prop D! Prop D would raise city taxes by a half-a-billion dollars with no guarantees on where the money would be spent and no solution to the city’s …
In mailboxes: A little secret the city council and unions don’t want you to know
The mailer linked below from the “Committee for Jobs” landed in mailboxes today. Insiders say that at least one head honcho at the Labor Council (that may narrow the list, of course) is fuming. “There’s a little secret that the San Diego City Council and the Labor Unions don’t want you to know,” reads the “Urgent” and personalized message, targeting …
It Never Happened But Revenge Has Been Taken Anyway
Well, he never did it. Pastor Terri Jones called off the Koran book burning. Unfortunately, the media took this planned, but obscure, little incident and and turned it into a world wide event with ramifications that we’ll be experiencing for quite some time. That is the subject on this week’s Bob Siegel Show. The program aired 9-12-10 and can now …
For PG&E it’s Easy Being Green
San Diegans do not live within Pacific Gas & Electric’s service fiefdom, but we are nonetheless affected by the giant utililty’s political weight-throwing. Following the wake of its disastrously expensive and failed attempt to persuade voters — via Prop. 16 — to grant a virtual monopoly, PG&E is now trying to rehabilitate its image and grow its bottom line by …
Old Glory raised Iwo Jima-style along US/Mexico border
During a fitting ceremony on America’s somber 9/11 ninth anniversary the Border Patrol Auxiliary raised Old Glory in the Red Rocks area of the border located in East San Diego in a manner befitting Iwo Jima. Co-founder of the organization, Carl Braun, said this was five years in the making. “We are happy for the 100-plus folks who turned out …
Here’s the problem once again-lack of fiscal leadership and responsibility in government
Please read Logan Jenkins article in Sunday’s paper about the Vallecitos Water District Official, who when applying for this executive position, said he would not take the elevated pension, but at the end, took it. If I apply for a job and lie about my qualifications and I am hired and my employer finds out I lied, I can be …
If We Say It Enough, They’ll Believe It
The Yes on D campaign in support of the proposed half-cent sales tax increase in the City of San Diego has finally ginned up its efforts, less than eight weeks before election day. I suppose it took that long for the public labor union checks funding the campaign to clear. Its first news release announced the campaign’s team members. It …
Never Forget
A worthwhile photo slideshow on this day… WTC Photos
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