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We here at the FlashReport extend best wishes to you and your family for a great Independence Day! Look for our daily commentary to return tomorrow, with a column from FR correspondent Shawn Steel!
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We here at the FlashReport extend best wishes to you and your family for a great Independence Day! Look for our daily commentary to return tomorrow, with a column from FR correspondent Shawn Steel!… Read More
Al Gore III was arrested early this morning in Orange County after being pulled over for driving 100 miles per hour according to Reuters.
The former vice president’s 24 year-old kid was driving a hybrid Toyota Prius. I have newfound respect for the Prius–the fact that it can 100 mph, I might consider driving one, as a rental, if I had to.
Also, young Gore had the making of a party, if your in to that sort of thing: marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino. There were no prescriptions found, he said.
Good luck to young Gore, it can be rough growing up with money and privilege.
Care to post his $20,000 bail? Go to www.ocsd.org for details.… Read More
In a somewhat stunning move for a self-professed conservative, Dana Point Mayor Diane Harkey (and Republican candidate for 73rd Assembly District) has proposed on the City Council agenda tonight a 10% raise in the wages of the contract city attorneys, from $200 an hour to $220 an hour, and an automatic Consumer Price Index for inflation in their hourly wage every July 1 hereafter, regardless of performance by the attorneys.
We spoke with a city councilman today in neighboring Mission Viejo, who told us his city pays only $150 an hour for legal advice. This city councilman, who recently conducted interviews for law firms for Mission Viejo, said he had "never heard of an automatic CPI inflator in a contract for legal services."
Harkey, whose record really is in no way conservative,made her motion to increaseattorney’s fees, and to allow for a mandatory annual increase in attorney wages regardless of performance, in a memo dated July 3, 2007 to the City Council. We understand though, that she has called in "sick" for tonight’s meeting in the meantime, and we are hopeful that sanity will prevail and her motion will be… Read More
The Declaration of Independence: An Exceptional Document By Joe Sheffo Assistant Opinion Editor North County Times Exclusive for the Flashreport
Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is the most unique of national holidays, not only in our own country but perhaps in any nation on earth, because it celebrates not just an event —- the decision of the 13 American colonies to part ways with Great Britain —- but an idea: that all men are created equal.
Unfortunately, for too long multiculturalists, leftists, and the ill-informed have made light of, and even denigrated, this achievement. According to them, Jefferson was a rich, white man looking after rich, white interests. When Jefferson said “all men” he really meant all men like himself, and he meant only men. This is probably the historical interpretation taught in most of our schools and universities.
I most recently heard this attitude in a commentary delivered by National Public Radio Weekend Edition host John Ydstie. Ydstie was actually commenting on the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first English settlement in… Read More
Court Rejects State Pension Bonds Because Voters Were Ignored
Victors Call Ruling “a Fourth of July Gift to Californians”
Contact: Harold Johnson Attorney Pacific Legal Foundation (916) 419-7111 hej@pacificlegal.org www.pacificlegal.org
SACRAMENTO, July 3, 2007: A California appellate court today rejected the State’s bid to float $560 million in bonds for government pensions without approval of the State electorate. The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the State’s proposed “pension obligation bonds” are illegal because they were not submitted to voters as the California Constitution (Article 16, Section 1) requires for state debt in excess of $300,000.
“This is a great Fourth of July gift to Californians,” said Pacific Legal Foundation Attorney Harold Johnson, who represented the Fullerton Association of… Read More
Well, he may as well have. In what can best be characterized as a stilletto jammed between the ribs of every Republican, conservative or moderate, who walked precincts, donated money, or worked for the re-election of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Capitol Weekly is reporting that the Governor, this afternoon, will appoint Mary Nichols to head up the important California Air Resources Board.
This is the same Mary Nichols who, according to CW, was Assistant Administrator of the EPA under President Bill Clinton and served as a senior official in the administrations of Governors Jerry Brown and, yes, the disgraced and recalled Gray Davis.
At the rate he is going, Schwarzenegger will have more former Gray Davis hacks in his administration than Davis himself had – if that’s possible.
It’s also an alarming statement about a Schwarzenegger administration that is tripping over itself to move way past center and embrace the left wing enviro-acti vist agenda…
The sad truth is that there is plenty of talent for all of these positions from the party of Ronald Reagan. People who will BALANCE environmental concerns with issues of… Read More
