From FR friend Eric Reslock, about 40 seconds of Assemblyman Chuck DeVore speaking on the floor of the Assembly yesterday, chiding Democrats for pushing legislation that does nothing to solve our state’s imbalanced books… You tell them, Assemblyman! … Read More

Today, his Imperial Majesty Chief Justice Ron George will convene class for the purpose of orating on the “State of the Judiciary”. Based on recent comments you are sure to hear whining about the initiative process and its harm to the courts. See King George doesn’t like the peasants having an avenue to over rule judges. Judges smart, people stupid. You can also expect a lot of whining about money. Justices like George think that the people are valuable for one thing. Money. In 2008 Ron George’s Judicial Council sold the legislature an additional tax on the little people. They bonded increased fines on parking tickets, speeding tickets etc…. They managed to ignore the million dollar lawsuits that tie up court operations.The purpose of taking more farthings from the people was to remodel and build new … Read More

We are about to do a "pre-spring" cleaning up of our extensive links on this site.

As part of that process, we’ll be revising and updating our links to political and MSM blogs, both on the menu above and on our Blog Scan page. We will be updating our links to websites, resources, columnists and such.

If you have favorite places you go to on the web as a politico, that you would recommend we include, just drop us a note.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Jon Fleischman Publisher… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail… FR friend John Fund recounts his dinner with newly minted MA Republican Senator Scott Brown, but you’ll be most interested in who they saw, but didn’t disturb, after dinner…

Senator Scott Brown and Fred Thompson have a fair bit in common so it’s no surprise they’ve become friends. In 1994, Mr. Thompson won a come-from-behind Senate victory in Tennessee driving an old pickup truck between campaign stops. Mr. Brown drove a 2005 GMC Canyon truck and solidified his "everyman" appeal to score an upset Senate win last month in Massachusetts.

Mr. Thompson, now a successful radio talk show host whose memoirs will come out this spring, was so tickled by Mr. Brown’s victory that he offered to rent him his Washington D.C. apartment, which is a convenient short drive from the… Read More

Meg Whitman has launched her second television advertisement which you can watch below. Her campaign also released a new radio spot that features Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. The radio spot is under the tv spot below.

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Today the campaign of John Eastman for Attorney General got a big, talkative boost. The former Dean of the Chapman University School of Law, rolled out an impressive list of endorsements from some of the premiere names in talk radio in this country. Eastman has been endorsed by Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Dennis Prager. Prager has the distinction here on the FlashReport of having recieved the most "Golden Pen" recognitions in his role as a syndicated columnist.

What are they saying about Eastman?

BILL BENNETT “John Eastman is one of the great advocates for conservatives in this country. California would be well served with him as their Attorney General.” … Read More

Steve Poiznerlaunched a new web ad attacking Meg Whitman’s record on taxes. You can watch it below.

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Over the weekend there was an article in the Orange County Register talking about how some legislators have managed to make big bucks by investing their per diem payments (for expenses associated with having to maintain two households) into real estate which then increased in value.

To this I would say… bravo! It seems to me that if we want legislators to be smart with OPM (other people’s money), we need them to be smart with their own.

We can haggle over appropriateness of per diem payments, the amount, and whether or not some of the fine lines that are walked in terms of taking the payments if you really only have one household, in Sacramento, and such.

But it should be obvious on the face of it that making prudent financial decisions with their own money is a good quality for legislators to have — since they are making important decisions about the finances of the state. I’d go back and re-read the article — and congratulate every one of those legislators who has figured… Read More