On Monday, I had the pleasure to sit down with my local paper, the Antelope Valley Press, to discuss California’s state budget (which, aseveryone knows is stalled in negotiations because the Democrat leaders are at odds with one another). My discussion with the AVP Ed Board resulted in this story where my message is simple: This is the time for us to seriously reset spending levels. We also discussed the wonderfully conservative governance by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has unflinchingly taken on the school and state unions, and in so doing brought fiscal sanity to a once broken state. California leaders have much to learn from Christie.… Read More

Back in 2005 the legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 1179, legislation by ultra-liberal Democrat Leland Yee. This terrible piece of “nanny-statist” legislation presumed to once again assert state government in the role of parenting our children, in this case regulating the sale of violent video games to people under 18. Completely ignoring the fact that there is an existing rating system for video games that works well, the legislature and, ironically, Governor Schwarzenegger, supported this bad bill.

Fortunately, this particular advance of big government was thwarted by numerous California courts, included a unanimous rejection by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is significant to note that this brings to an even dozen the number of similar laws around the country that have been declared unconstitutional. In the case of AB 1179, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review the decision of the Court of Appeals.

Never before have U.S.courts used expressions of violence as the basis for a restriction on our Constitutional rights to free speech. You may not like certain video games, but do you really want the government to tell… Read More

Back in 2005 the legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 1179, legislation by ultra-liberal Democrat Leland Yee. This terrible piece of “nanny-statist” legislation presumed to once again assert state government in the role of parenting our children, in this case regulating the sale of violent video games to people under 18. Completely ignoring the fact that there is an existing rating system for video games that works well, the legislature and, ironically, Governor Schwarzenegger, supported this bad bill.

Fortunately, this particular advance of big government was thwarted by numerous California courts, included a unanimous rejection by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is significant to note that this brings to an even dozen the number of similar laws around the country that have been declared unconstitutional. In the case of AB 1179, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review the decision of the Court of Appeals.

Never before have U.S.courts used expressions of violence as the basis for a restriction on our Constitutional rights to free speech. You may not like certain video games, but do you really want the government to tell… Read More

State Senator Dave Cox, of Sacramento, has passed away after a fight against cancer that lasted for over a decade. Our sympathies and prayers go out to the Senator’s family, staff and friends. You can read more about his passing on the Sacramento Bee website here. The th Beee piece calls Cox a "moderate conservative" — but for our part, in a legislature dominated by ultra-liberals, we found ourselves in alignment with Cox all of the time. At the end of the day, the most defining vote between whether one was a liberal or conservative Republican that came up in the legislature the last decade was the 2009 budget deal, and the passing of the largest tax increase in the history of any state (and the placement of even more taxes as Proposition 1A on the ballot). Cox was a vote against that, for which he should be praised for standing tall for the taxpayers in his district, and around California.

Much… Read More

With a h/t to the Twitter feed of Meg Whitman campaign adviser Mike Murphy, here is a new hard-hitting ad from Whitman that will go up starting tomorrow. Yes, it’s only mid-July… … Read More

Over the weekend I received an update from Judie Soderlund of the Fiorina for U.S. Senate campaign regarding the status of potential debates with incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer…

From Julie… I wanted to provide you with a real time update with regard to e debates in the Senate race. Today, we learned that the Boxer campaign, despite the fact that there is a meeting scheduled Monday at 2pm to discuss the Boxer campaign’s either acceptance or counterproposal to our June 23 proposal of a series of seven debates, has decided not to provide any feedback to us. Instead they have but attempted to “blow up” negotiations after simple and repeated requests by our campaign for a counter-proposal in an effort to make Monday’s… Read More

I’ve seen some pretty sorry stuff in politics over the years, but this has to be one of the sorriest.

Nick Popaditch is a proud Marine with a Silver Star anda Purple Heart. He’s also the Republican nominee for Congress against incumbent Bob Filner in California’s 51st District, covering portions of South San Diego County and all of Imperial County.In a district with a significant Democratic registration advantage, many would say Popaditch has an uphill battle in November.

His chances of winning office area far different analysis and discussion, however, than whether it’s fair game for a major newspaper in the district to make a mockery of war injuries Popaditch sustained in Iraq, during the battle of Fallujah. (See the editorial cartoon below.)

Free press? Yes. A media embarrassment? That too. You be the judge.

Read the letter below…

Saturday’s… Read More

Yesterday, a court ruled that the uncounted 12,500 ballots in Riverside County, which arrived late to the Registrar through no fault of the voters, will be tallied. The Riverside Registar of Voters staff immediately started working, doing so throughout the night, posting the lastest update at 6:00 a.m. this morning.

Juan Vargas picked up a net of 10 votes since the ruling, with his lead over Mary Salas "jumping" from 12 to 22 votes.

Of the 12,500 remaining ballots in Riverside, Jim Sills at San Diego Rostra is estimating that approximately 450 of them are Democratic ballots in Senate District 40.

Here’s all the info at Rostra.… Read More