Today we are pleased to feature a guest commentary from former Unversity of California Regent and Proposition 209 author Ward Connerly. We asked Mr. Connerly to comment on news yesterday that that a committee of the University of California Board of Regents has accepted a report calling on more the student population of the U.C. system too be more ethnically and racially diverse…

Californians, beware! The Board of Regents of the University of California (UC) has unanimously endorsed a report that proposes a significantly more aggressive approach to creating “diversity” in the faculty and student body of… Read More

Today we are pleased to feature a guest commentary from former Unversity of California Regent and Proposition 209 author Ward Connerly. We asked Mr. Connerly to comment on news yesterday that that a committee of the University of California Board of Regents has accepted a report calling on more the student population of the U.C. system too be more ethnically and racially diverse…

Californians, beware!

The Board of Regents of the University of California (UC) has unanimously endorsed a report that proposes a significantly more aggressive approach to creating “diversity” in the faculty and student body of UC. What this all means is that the entire UC system, including all of its campuses, will now be doing everything they possibly can to… Read More

The article below was written by Linda Halderman, M.D., FACS. Dr. Haldermanis a Board-Certified General Surgeon practicing in rural south Fresno County, California.

It originally appeared in the American Thinker and was sent to me by my friend and all around good guy, Senator Dave Cogdill.

Dr. Halderman provides important insights to the practical, real-world workings of the health care industry. Her article is well worth the read.

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Patients without Doctors: The Flawed Plan of Governor Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate the problem of uninsured Californians needing better health care. According to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Senior Health Policy Advisor, the Governor’s Health Care Proposal will add 900,000 Californians to Medi-Cal, the State’s version of Medicaid. This expansion of government-funded medicine helps meet the… Read More

Wouldn’t it be nice to buy baseball tickets, attend banquets, or join an organization and have someone else foot the bill? Well, that is precisely what is happening at the Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Taxpayers may be surprised to hear exactly how their hard-earned money is being spent. According to the San Jose Mercury News (September 4, 2007), “Over the past three years, the board members have billed the public for such items as $415 in bar associations membership fees, $121 in funeral flowers, $84 in parking tickets, and 15 trips by the current board chairman to conferences in San Diego.” It gets better. “When [the board members] talk to the to the Mercury News, they charge the public more than $200 for the effort. The same goes for YWCA luncheons, NAACP banquets, Woman’s Equity Day and American Diabetes Association dinner[s]… One particularly creative director charged the public $817 for attending four ‘softball meetings’ involving district staffers.” Sadly, these board members do… Read More

Former San Joaquin County Supervisor Jack Sieglock continues to lock down his base in San Joaquin County with a tremendous two weeks, highlighted by his Lodi fundraiser last evening that was attended by close to 150 people.

With the unanimous endorsement of Lodi’s GOP council members along with winning the endorsement of Senator Dave Cogdill (who represents Lodi), Sieglock is making the solidly Republican bastion of north San Joaquin County very difficult to compete in let alone win. With the strong backing of GOP super heavyweights Alex and Michael Spanos there will be no lack of resources to take the battle to the rest of the district.

Today I have learned that all GOP Stockton council members have endorsed Sieglock which will give added strength in the heavily Republican northern Stockton precincts. By locking down his base this early, Sieglock will be able to press into Sacramento, El Dorado and Amador County and peel votes away from the other candidates in the race who need every vote out of those areas to offset the large GOP margins of a united San Joaquin County.… Read More

Looking back at the lengthy summer impasse on passing a state budget, you have to wonder if anyone has thought about the importance of including the ideas of legislative Republicans in the policy discussions taking place on health care. For a moment, after the budget finally passed, I felt like I caught a wind of changing tactical consideration by the Governor’s office — an olive branch of diplomacy, centered around the idea of being more inclusive of Republican legislators in order to avoid this kind of stalemate. Yet, we look at the issue of this health care, and because Republicans have made it clear that they do not support increasing taxes (or taxes called "fees"), all of the other common-sense ideas that they are putting forward to increase consumer choice and market-driven cost reductions for health care, are just being shelved. It would appear that the Governor is not willing to work with those who feel that individual responsibility, not "shared responsibility",… Read More

Looking back at the lengthy summer impasse on passing a state budget, you have to wonder if anyone has thought about the importance of including the ideas of legislative Republicans in the policy discussions taking place on health care. For a moment, after the budget finally passed, I felt like I caught a wind of changing tactical consideration by the Governor’s office — an olive branch of diplomacy, centered around the idea of being more inclusive of Republican legislators in order to avoid this kind of stalemate. Yet, we look at the issue of this health care, and because Republicans have made it clear that they do not support increasing taxes (or taxes called "fees"), all of the other common-sense ideas that they are putting forward to increase consumer choice and market-driven cost reductions for health care, are just being shelved. It would appear that the Governor is not willing to work with those who feel that individual responsibility, not "shared responsibility",… Read More

Hussam Ayloush is suing again. As Executive Director of the Greater Los Angeles Area Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Ayloush is a constant litigant, using American justice to intimidate and bully. He sued me a couple of years ago in Orange County for defamation for an article I wrote about his organization CAIR. Ayloush’s suit was promptly dismissed by the Superior Court. Attorney fees were awarded against him because of his lack of understanding of the 1st Amendment.

Ayloush’s group, CAIR, has… Read More