- According to The Hill newspaper, right now California Congressman Duncan Hunter has more Congressional endorsements in his bid for the Presidency than former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Of course, maybe that actually helps The Mayor, since Congress isn’t so popular these days.
- Congratulations to Hoover Institution Fellow and FR friend Williamson "Bill" Evers who was tapped by W. to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. Perhaps while there he can advise that "federalizing" education through programs like No Child Left Behind is a bad thing.
- In his Silicon Valley appearance yesterday, GOP Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani talked a lot about global warming. I don’t remember it being a big part of his talk to Republican leaders at the State GOP Convention last weekend…
- If Joel Stein’s column today in the Los Angeles Times where he describes the cloistered work of fellows at the Hoover Institute at Stanford is even close to accurate, we should all be lining up to spend time there.
- If you buy into the argument that all Californians have a "shared responsibility" for the healthcare of all of us, that can be used to justify the government pushing all kind of "Nanny Government" bills — starting with banning transfats, and ending with what? A ban on chocolate? Dumb.
- Susan Kennedy, the Democrat who was famously the Executive Director of the California Democratic Party, and CARAL, as well as formerly Deputy Chief of Staff to disgraced and recalled Governor Gray Davis, is still Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Chief of Staff. This is still a very bad thing, even though I have found her to be a pleasant person.
- There is no doubt that spending largesse played a role in the GOP loss of Congress last November. Why would GOP activists expect anything but more big spending from a restored GOP majority when they kept Jerry "The King of Pork" Lewis on as ranking member of the Appropriations Committee?
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