Can you guess what the prudent strategy for efficient water consumption is? It’s market pricing with water rates based on household use. Except if you live in California. California has suffered four droughts in the last five decades with each of the four becoming more severe in its impact. “Yet this is due more to […]
Cato Club 200 Retreat and Report Cards
The lyrics “You want to go where everybody knows your name”, from the TV show Cheers gives you a pretty good idea of what it’s like to be part of the Cato Club 200 retreat. “Lucky us!” is how Becky and I felt as we spent the weekend with friends, experts, and scholars that are pretty […]
The Radical Mr. Liu: Overrunning America’s Constitution
Governor Jerry Brown has nominated Berkeley Law professor Goodwin Liu for a position on the California Supreme Court. Republican senators led a successful filibuster of Liu’s appointment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals back in May. As CNN reported, “Liu was the first of President Barack Obama’s judicial picks to be successfully filibustered.” The […]
Gimmicks vs Reality
As a lens to view liberal incompetence, take Senator Chuck Schumer as an example. Here is a man who has voted at each turn to cripple Wall Street’s competitive position in the world with Sarbanes-Oxley, and Dodd-Frank. In light of the Deutsche Börse takeover of the NYSE he is now fighting to keep NYSE at […]
Quotes from Election 2010: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good: Marco Rubio’s victory speech: “We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican party…What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not so long ago.” Rand Paul: “Tonight, there’s a […]
SEIU in the Governor’s Mansion
Andy Stern’s replacement as president of SEIU is Mary Kay Henry. Henry said in her acceptance speech that the most important challenge for her organization is the race for governor in nine states this fall. California is one of those nine. The SEIU’s guy in the race is Jerry Brown. (He’s running against Meg Whitman). […]
Top 10 Races of 2010
This election cycle is full of races that could swing either way. Here is a brief synopsis of 10 I think are the most interesting, competitive, and consequential in the country. California – Senate Given Barbara Boxer’s championing of the left, it’s hard to imagine her having trouble in California, but her campaign isn’t running […]