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California: L.a. Times

October 15, 2009 - 01:18 pm
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Now spreading the usual establishment disinformation: Chief Justice Ron George

By chris reed

The L.A. Times' George Skelton comments favorably on George's weekend speech and endorses one of the chief justice's key points: George lamented that lawmakers and California itself "have been placed in a fiscal straitjacket" by the two-thirds majority vote requirement...

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October 9, 2009 - 05:41 pm
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Obama White House once again interferes with state budget moves, tries to get more $$ to union employees

By chris reed

The Obama administration has asked California to explain how furloughs for state workers are affecting the state's ability to meet an escalating demand for unemployment insurance benefits and services to millions of jobless people. That's from the L.A. Times. Remember,...

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September 29, 2009 - 07:44 pm
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L.A. Times continues to downplay what Polanski did -- and now AP, which is read worldwide, is doing the same

By chris reed

Yesterday, LAT columnist Patrick Goldstein described the charges facing Roman Polanski as amounting to a "sex scandal." An editorial in today's LAT says Polanski was charged with "having sex with a 13-year-old girl." In the wrap-up of reaction to Polanski's...

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September 28, 2009 - 02:46 pm
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L.A. Times columnist loses his mind, sympathizes with Roman Polanski, describes rape of drugged 13-year-old as a 'sex scandal'

By chris reed

I enjoy Patrick Goldstein's columns on Hollywood in the LAT, but he's lost his mind if he sympathizes with Roman Polanski and questions attempts to bring him to justice: With the state Legislature forced to make dramatic cuts in the...

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July 21, 2009 - 01:34 pm
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If CalPERS gives out bonuses this year, civil insurrection should be next step

By chris reed

From the L.A. Times: California's huge government pension fund is expected to report today a whopping annual loss of an estimated $56.8 billion, almost a quarter of its investment portfolio. The loss at the California Public Employees' Retirement System for...

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July 20, 2009 - 03:12 pm
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If Skelton's going to name 'co-conspirators' in overspending, he shouldn't leave himself out

By chris reed

The main point of George Sketon's Sunday L.A. Times column: For Schwarzenegger to rail about the state not living within its means is disingenuous, to put it politely. He's as guilty as anyone -- at minimum a co-conspirator. Yo, George!...

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July 7, 2009 - 02:55 pm
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Spectacular piece by Matt Welch dissecting the arrogance of California's political/media establishment

By chris reed

In the just-out August/September issue of Reason magazine, editor Matt Welch, a former member of the L.A. Times' editorial board, offers the best overview yet of the arrogance of California' political and media establishment. He details the establishment's support for...

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June 3, 2009 - 03:17 pm
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Demolishing the Prop. 13-is-the-devil myth once and for all

By chris reed

According to the newsrooms and editorial boards of the L.A. Times and the Sacramento Bee -- heck, even according to the Bee's cartoonist -- Proposition 13 is the devil. The 1978 voter initiative limiting increases in property taxes has so...

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June 2, 2009 - 07:46 pm
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Hypocritical L.A. Times edit board gets the takedown it deserves

By chris reed

Yet another spectacular piece from Reason's Matt Welch annihilating the California media establishment's coverage of the special election and its blame-the-voters approach to the budget debacle: On May 20, the day after voters repudiated California's entire political class by trouncing...

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May 28, 2009 - 01:19 pm
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Huge, obvious error in Hiltzik's 'budget myth' column: Population went up 13.8% over last decade, not 30%

By chris reed

Michael Hiltzik's orgy of misinformation in today's L.A. Times builds off the premise that voters are idiots and that contrary to your lying eyes, state spending has gone up in reasonable fashion. He is tendentious beyond belief in how he...

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