In Yolo County I have the pleasure of losing on 4-1 votes on a regular basis. Today in our meeting I had the pleasure of losing again.

Here is the agenda for today. The item we were discussing is 3.01.

We had a presentation from the California Product Stewardship Council regarding Extended Producer Responsibility. At the end of the presentation Supervisor Mariko Yamada said out loud "What is not to like?". I got to be the skunk at the party and spell out exactly why I was not going to vote for the resolution and felt that it sent the wrong message.

The argument here is that the burden for the cost of disposal of medical and universal waste should fall on the manufacturer. The disposal of these products is viewed as a cost to local government. Nonsense. Yolo County government has decided to enter into the landfill business and is not mandated. The way we handle out garbage is. We could choose to get out of the landfill business and then we would not have to deal with this mandate.

The whole justification… Read More

It is happening in Yolo County, Los Angeles County, and everywhere in between. Individual responsibility and freedom are being thrown out the window. The people that are expanding nanny government come from both parties.

In Los Angeles they are now going to ban new fast food outlets.

So now we tell people about nutrition in pubic schools, we don’t allow fast food in certain neighborhoods, and we are expected to care for them when they drive outside of their neighborhood to get their Big Mac.

Look. Have it one way or the other. We are paying tax dollars to teach people nutrition. If they graduated from high school in California they are required to know about calories and what they do for and to the body.

If they don’t accept what they are told it is their fault. It is not my fault. It is not the owner of a parcel of land in parts of Los Angeles that want to engage in selling a legal product. If they are going to ban fast food outlets then keep going.

Don’t allow supermarkets to sell bacon. Make people wear helmets when they… Read More

A couple of weeks ago, Orange County Lincoln Club President Rich Wagner and fellow OCLC Board Member Chip Hanlon penned a hard hitting column in Red County Magazine concerning the current leadership of Republicans on Capitol Hill — calling for new leadership regardless of the outcome of elections this November. I wrote extensively about it here.

Below is a video clip of Wagner along with Lincoln Club Chairman Tracy Price on a local Orange County cable news program, Real Orange, talking about the strong (and admirable) stance of this venerable Republican donor organization… (h/t to the OC Blog) … Read More

Long time conservative columnist Bob Novak, whose columns we have featured a lot on this site, has been rushed to the hospital with a brain tumor. Please keep him in your prayers. Look for updates on the Human Events website.… Read More

Lame duck Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata has announced that the floor session scheduled for tomorrow to vote on the joint proposal by legislative Democrats to try to foist over $9 billion in new taxes on hard working Californians has been cancelled. He’s probably too distracted reading yet another major story (linked on the main page) about the long FBI investigation into his personal and campaign activities to focus on a floor session. Of course the vote on the massive tax increase would have ended in failure, since every Republican in the Senate has signed a pledge not to vote to increase taxes one penny, let alone billions of dollars.… Read More

Did you hear the shocking tale about a San Francisco illegal alien/gang banger who shot a father and his two sons in cold blood last month?

You probably have since national media outlets like Time and Fox News have covered the story.

If you haven’t, the story goes like this: Witnesses say Edwin Ramos, 21, was perturbed that his car was temporarily blocked by 48-year-old Tony Bologna’s car. So Ramos opened fire on Bologna and his sons Micheal, 20, and Matthew, 16, killing all three.

This heinous crime could have been prevented. Ramos, an El Salvador citizen and a member of the violent MS-13 gang, should have been sent to state prison and then deported a long time ago given his record of criminal activity in San Francisco and his illegal alien status. But because of systematic problems within California’s criminal justice system, Ramos was freed to roam the streets of San Francisco.

Here’s a look at his criminal activities prior to the vicious slaying of the Bologna family:

In 2003, Ramos, 17 at the time, beat and kicked a passenger on a San Francisco city bus. Ramos was briefly incarcerated as a juvenile for the gang… Read More

Over the weekend it was announced that the title and summary for Proposition 8 had been changeddue tothe recent California Supreme Court marriage ruling. My post on the topic pinned blame for the change on Secretary of State Debra Bowen. In fact, legal anaysis and language for initiatives and ballot measures come from Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office. In light of this fact, our outrage and frustration would probably be better directed to the AG, not the SOS’s office.… Read More

Uhhh, just to clarify, I am referring to food choices, not alternative lifestyle choices.

Speaking of food choices, and to follow up on Jon’s commentary, I am staunchly and proudly pro-choice on this issue. Personally, I would never ingest large amounts of trans fat (well…not more than once or twice a week), but I think everyone should have the right to decide on their own what to do with their bodies, and I would never assume my personal moral-eaty should be foisted on anyone, certainly not by government mandate.… Read More