Fresno Mayor Alan Autry, the latest in a long line of Republicans supported by the local Party and Lincoln Club only to disappoint on easy issues, clearly doesn’t have a clue on how to fix immigration policy, only that he doesn’t like anyone being deported. All around us here in Fresno there are Republican farmers supporting amnesty, called "adjusted status" now in a sleight of hand change of nomenclature. Of course, this will not work, and is a disaster waiting to happen in Washington.

We’ve gone almost six years now past 911 and Congress nor the President has moved to fix immigration. Add this to a long list of problems not solved. Autry’s actions don’t solve anything either.

What needs to take place is simple. We need to cut the wait time for entering the country legally from eight years to six weeks. Who can accomplish this? Silicon Valley tech leader can. They need to examine all of our duplicative bureaucracies, overlapping procedures, and outmoded technology and put the fixes on a fast track, without government intervention. Only until… Read More

LA Communist Party Passwords

Next time you are in Sacramento and run into the Speaker, say these words ‘Kur-heiny’ and see what his answer is. Apparently that is part of a code exchange of the LA branch of the Communist Party USA. LA Observed notes the exchange in discussing the New York Times article about the party donating its records to NYU. See it here.

Disclaimer: Of course I don’t really want to imply that Nunez is a communist. That would be wrong. I don’t want to be accused of the horrible sin of "McCarthyism". Communists are very upfront about controlling all aspects of our lives in order to serve their statist ideology. In no way do I imply that Nunez and his fellow travelers are upfront.… Read More

"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

This so-called "11th Commandment" was created during the 1966 Gubernatorial campaign of Ronald Reagan. Then California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson came up with the idea as Republicans around the country had just watched GOP Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater lose his race after prolonged, vicious attacks from the left within the Republican Party.

How ironic that over the years, this mantra has become something used by liberal Republicans, interested in fending off criticism from conservatives in the Grand Old Party.

Last weekend, United States Senator and Presidential aspirant John McCain invoked Reagan’s "11th Commandment" in a stinging criticism of the Club for Growth (CfG). For those who are not familiar with CfG, they are not a "Republican" organization, but rather a grassroots-based, non-partisan group that is focused on economic issues and whose membership often times focuses funds to help elect candidates for office who will fight to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. In… Read More

"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

This so-called "11th Commandment" was created during the 1966 Gubernatorial campaign of Ronald Reagan. Then California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson came up with the idea as Republicans around the country had just watched GOP Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater lose his race after prolonged, vicious attacks from the left within the Republican Party.

How ironic that over the years, this mantra has become something used by liberal Republicans, interested in fending off criticism from conservatives in the Grand Old Party.

Last weekend, United States Senator and Presidential aspirant John McCain invoked Reagan’s "11th Commandment" in a stinging criticism of the Club for Growth (CfG). For those who are not familiar with CfG, they are not a "Republican" organization, but rather a grassroots-based, non-partisan group that is focused on economic issues and whose membership often times focuses funds to help elect candidates for office who will fight to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. In… Read More

Is Chris Cox, the former Orange County Congressman who now heads up the Securities and Exchange Commission, in consideration for replacing embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? According to an article on Politico.com this afternoon, he is…

If Cox were to be appointed, he would join Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as another high-profile, close adviser to the President from the Golden State. (h/t to Matt Cunngham.)… Read More

On Friday, I had a chance to take a few minutes with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts. I found him to be a very engaging and articulate person with whom to speak. Below are some excerpts* from our interview…

Governor Romney was in Orange County where he appeared at two fundraising events — one an exclusive ‘pre-sell’ event at the Irvine home of businessman John Clarey, and the other a reception with hundreds of guests at the posh St. Regis Resort in Dana Point. We took along the "FlashCam" and so you can see all kinds of video — they are on the main page now — and I will try to post them into this Commentary in a bit…

AN INTERVIEW WITH MITT ROMNEY… Read More

Fleischman thinks he’s hot stuff because of all the mainpage "FlashCam" posts today on Mitt Romney’s visit. If Jon were hip, he’d cruise over to myspace.com and become a "friend" of any presidential candidate he chooses, all of ’em if he likes.

Check out http://impact.myspace.com/and know that every candidate is an Internet predator when it comes to courting the under-30 crowd. As Paris Hilton would say, "It’s hot."

Jon, let’s make this a feature….State candidates’ videos, right on the FlashReport!

Here’s the AP-HiTech story:

Presidential Hopefuls Make Myspace Pages

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet "friend" of Barack Obama now have a new online opportunity. MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.

Called the Impact Channel,… Read More

The 60th Assembly District stretches From the Diamond Bar/Walnut area of Los Angeles County Down through parts of Northern Orange County to parts of Orange/Anaheim and takes in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. FR contributor posted his views on the race in the OC blog. See it here. Bob Huff represents the area now. Currently there are three candidates mentioned and all will run as conservatives: Curt Hagman is the first term councilman from Chino Hills. Adam Aleman profiled the first term councilman in FR. Read it here.People in Chino Hills do like him and he … Read More