Amidst the "Run, Tom, Run" furvor that has sparked up and down California at the prospects of conservative icon and State Senator Tom McClintock entering the GOP primary in the 4th Congressional District (where John Doolittle is retiring), one prominent conservative isn’t too fond of the idea. Jeff Flint, proprietor of Red County’s Placer blog says he’d vote for Tom in a general election, but that’s it. He pens a lengthy commentary this morning, entitled Thanks But No Thanks, Tom.… Read More

I am sad to read that this morning William F. Buckley, Jr., passed away. Buckley played a key role in the intellectual establishment of the modern conservative movement, as a pioneer during the pre-Reagan era when his voice, and that of his publication, National Review, were literally a voice in the wilderness.

Over the years I had many opportunities to chat with Mr. Buckley, who was instrumental in the founding of Young Americans for Freedom, the conservative youth organization in which I was extremely involved during my college days.

Rest In Peace, my friend.

There is a short blurb up on the National Review website, but look for a lot more as news of Buckley’s passing becomes widespread…… Read More

Atop the newsclip stack today: something good from the office of Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.) with help from Sen. Ensign (R-Nev.). The two have introduced legislation to update the way the IRS treats business-provided cell phones. Kerry’s press release is here, with a quote from Ensign. Now on to greater reforms in the tax code!

If you had $40-50 million, would you spend it for good or evil? Here‘s what the national teachers lobby plans to do in their upcoming campaign-season advertising. …Wonder how many teacher scholarships or fellowships could be funded with that money?

Also topping the list of important accomplishments from congress this year, the headlines says it all: "House getting greener thorough cafeteria changes." No mention if the sugar cane-sourced containers and corn-derived cutlery comes with an offset for the emissions required to harvest additional corn and sugarcane, or if (gasp) the sugar comes from international sources or domestic… Read More

FlashReport readers — you will hear a lot from me on this subject, but I may not be as eloquent as Jon Coupal below. On the June ballot, Proposition 98 represents very real property rights reform, preventing the abusing "taking" of private property by the government. It is an oustanding measure which deserves your energy and support.

On the other hand, Proposition 99 is a fraud — a fake. Placed on the ballot by those who would preserve the rights of government to egregiously use the power of eminent domain to trample the rights of property owners, the backers of 99 are hoping they get their measure to recive just one more vote than 98, as buried in its language is a "poison pill" that voids 98 if 99 gets more votes.

Read more below from Jon Coupal…

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FlashReport readers — you will hear a lot from me on this subject, but I may not be as eloquent as Jon Coupal below. On the June ballot, Proposition 98 represents very real property rights reform, preventing the abusing "taking" of private property by the government. It is an oustanding measure which deserves your energy and support.

On the other hand, Proposition 99 is a fraud — a fake. Placed on the ballot by those who would preserve the rights of government to egregiously use the power of eminent domain to trample the rights of property owners, the backers of 99 are hoping they get their measure to recive just one more vote than 98, as buried in its language is a "poison pill" that voids 98 if 99 gets more votes.

Read more below from Jon Coupal… … Read More

Newsweek reports: "There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now." The article goes onwith impressivequotes fromNOAA scientists, Columbia University professors and climatologists – all giving dire warnings about the impending climate crisis.

Ending with – "The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality." Grim indeed. These words arefrom the infamous 1975 Newsweek article titled "The Cooling World" (for your reading pleasure, the entire article is attached on the bottom of this post).

Newsweek was on the global cooling scare bandwagon back then and the article points to all of the recent weather disasters then… Read More

Jeff Miller is an amazing guy. Despite growing up in Tehachapi (Phil Wyman is from there) and serving in the Navy (no further comment needed) he has done quite well. People can overcome amazing obstacles when they work hard. Sometimes this blog has too many press releases posted but I thought it was best to show you what the Republican Governors Association put out yesterday. This Jeff Miller is not running for the Assembly in 2008 but he is the Jeff Miller responsible for several of the people in the Assembly being there right now. Miller is one of the most influential people in California politics. Now they are starting to see that across the country.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Chris Schrimpf,202-367-8385… Read More

Today we feature a "Guest Commentary" — which is actually the prepared text of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner’s address at last Friday’s Dinner Banquet at the California Republican Party Convention. I thought it might be interesting reading, especially given that Poizner is often spoken of as a potential GOP candidate for Governor in 2010… REMARKS TO THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY FROM INSURANCE COMMISSIONER STEVE POIZNER

Let me start off by saying, “Thank you members and friends of the California Republican Party for helping to defeat Proposition 93.” Without your support and hard work, we… Read More