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  • Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukus has joined 33 other California DA's in a Supreme Court brief supporting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The California DA's joined with several Nevada and Arizona district attorneys, police organizations, and other persons and groups concerned with protecting the public safety benefits of citizens possessing firearms for self-defense. They argue that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies to the states, as well as the federal government.

    Rackaukus Argues Self-Defense

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukus has joined 33 other California DA's in a Supreme Court brief supporting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The California DA's joined with several Nevada and Arizona district attorneys, police organizations, and other persons and groups concerned with protecting the public safety benefits of citizens possessing firearms for self-defense. They argue that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies to the states, as well as the federal government.

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  • A turkey executioner! The ACLU today filed a federal lawsuit seeking a stay on “turkey executions”.  The ACLU claims that the Presidential turkey pardon is evidence of a growing trend […]

    ACLU Files Turkey Lawsuit

    Posted on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
    A turkey executioner! The ACLU today filed a federal lawsuit seeking a stay on “turkey executions”.  The ACLU claims that the Presidential turkey pardon is evidence of a growing trend […]

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  • It's time for California's major Republican candidates (Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Meg Whitman, Tom Campbell, Steve Poizner) to take the Taxpayer Protection Challenge. These candidates talk the talk - claiming they support fiscal responsibility and taxpayer protection. But, are they willing to walk the walk - take on the public employee unions by supporting the Citizen Power Campaign to stop these unions from using taxpayer money for politics?

    Take the Taxpayer Protection Challenge

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
    It's time for California's major Republican candidates (Carly Fiorina, Chuck DeVore, Meg Whitman, Tom Campbell, Steve Poizner) to take the Taxpayer Protection Challenge. These candidates talk the talk - claiming they support fiscal responsibility and taxpayer protection. But, are they willing to walk the walk - take on the public employee unions by supporting the Citizen Power Campaign to stop these unions from using taxpayer money for politics?

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  • Senate candidate Cary Fiorina has made it clear who wears the pants in her Senate Republican Primary - Chuck Devore. Fiorina told the American Spectator that she can beat Barbara Boxer because Boxer knows how to win against "white men". "With all due respect and deep affection for white men -- I'm married to one -- but [Boxer] knows how to beat them," said Fiorina. In an red meat appeal to social conservatives, she identified herself as pro-life, announced her support for Proposition 8's ban on same sex marriage, and declared "I share Sarah Palin's values."

    Fiorina Plays Gender Card

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
    Senate candidate Cary Fiorina has made it clear who wears the pants in her Senate Republican Primary - Chuck Devore. Fiorina told the American Spectator that she can beat Barbara Boxer because Boxer knows how to win against "white men". "With all due respect and deep affection for white men -- I'm married to one -- but [Boxer] knows how to beat them," said Fiorina. In an red meat appeal to social conservatives, she identified herself as pro-life, announced her support for Proposition 8's ban on same sex marriage, and declared "I share Sarah Palin's values."

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  • Why did the President decide to try KSM and four others in U.S. criminal courts? This was not Eric Holder's unprecedented legal decision, but the President's political decision. The President's political decision raises concerns of both conservative and liberal legal scholars. It seems that the President has made a short-term political decision to rally support by reviving the torture issue - a decision that threatens long-term damage to our civil liberties.

    How Obama Got His Groove Back

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
    Why did the President decide to try KSM and four others in U.S. criminal courts? This was not Eric Holder's unprecedented legal decision, but the President's political decision. The President's political decision raises concerns of both conservative and liberal legal scholars. It seems that the President has made a short-term political decision to rally support by reviving the torture issue - a decision that threatens long-term damage to our civil liberties.

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  • The public employee unions are plundering and bankrupting California and the nation. That's the bottom line of Steve Greenhut's new book, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. KFI radio's Bill Handel interviewed Greenhut, former editor of the Orange County Register, earlier this week to discuss the book. (Bill Handel podcast at 15:00) The book is a necessary primer on why California state government is broken - and how to fix it. Greenhut proves why the Citizen Power Campaign is necessary to fix California state government by stopping the use of taxpayer dollars for politics by the public employee unions.

    Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation

    Posted on November 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
    The public employee unions are plundering and bankrupting California and the nation. That's the bottom line of Steve Greenhut's new book, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. KFI radio's Bill Handel interviewed Greenhut, former editor of the Orange County Register, earlier this week to discuss the book. (Bill Handel podcast at 15:00) The book is a necessary primer on why California state government is broken - and how to fix it. Greenhut proves why the Citizen Power Campaign is necessary to fix California state government by stopping the use of taxpayer dollars for politics by the public employee unions.

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  • The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has charged the SEIU with intimidating immigrants in a recent Fresno union election. NUHW has been seeking to break away from the undemocratic SEIU. According to the NUHW, SEIU has engaged in violence and worker intimidation. They are not the only victim of SEIU's plundering. It is no wonder that the SEIU is pushing to eliminate secret ballot elections (designed to prevent this very kind of coercion) by backing Card Check Forced Unionization (the perversely named

    SEIU Charged With Coercing Immigrants

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
    The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has charged the SEIU with intimidating immigrants in a recent Fresno union election. NUHW has been seeking to break away from the undemocratic SEIU. According to the NUHW, SEIU has engaged in violence and worker intimidation. They are not the only victim of SEIU's plundering. It is no wonder that the SEIU is pushing to eliminate secret ballot elections (designed to prevent this very kind of coercion) by backing Card Check Forced Unionization (the perversely named "Employee Free Choice Act").

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  • ACORN Nuts Sue Over Funding Cuts

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | 13 Comments
    "Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground." It's important to remember this saying when considering the federal lawsuit that ACORN has filed claiming that its federal funding cuts were unconstitutional. ACORN claims in its suit that Congress defunded it through an unconstitutional "bill of attainder". ACORN relies on a dubious Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis that raises the question of whether Democrats are turning the nonpartisan CRS to partisan ends. Even worse, it appears that Americans must depend on Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to defend them.

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  • Taxpayers must act today to urge the Governor to oppose CFFR's poorly conceived pension

    Urge Governor to Oppose Pension “Reform” Sham

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Taxpayers must act today to urge the Governor to oppose CFFR's poorly conceived pension "reform" initiative. CFFR's pension reform amounts to a sham that does nothing to fix the current pension mess, and gives state workers a Constitutional right to guaranteed pensions - something taxpayers don't have. Please take time now to urge the Governor to oppose sham pension "reform" by going to his interactive web page.

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  • The public employee unions have corrupted California state government.  The public employee unions have become the most powerful special interest group in Sacramento.  As a result, California’s state and local […]

    Unplug the Political Machine

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | 13 Comments
    The public employee unions have corrupted California state government.  The public employee unions have become the most powerful special interest group in Sacramento.  As a result, California’s state and local […]

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  • In a shocking twist on fairytale fiction, the Wicked Witch of the West has dropped the House on Munchkinland.  Still stinging from last week’s election losses, California’s Wicked Witch, Nancy […]

    Wicked Witch Drops House on Munchkinland

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    In a shocking twist on fairytale fiction, the Wicked Witch of the West has dropped the House on Munchkinland.  Still stinging from last week’s election losses, California’s Wicked Witch, Nancy […]

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  • Senate candidate Chuck DeVore's latest campaign video should strike a chord with centrists and fiscal conservatives. DeVore effectively points out how opponent Carly Fiorina and Democrat opponent Barbara Boxer are much the same. He correctly points out how Fiorina has supported the fiscally reckless Democrat agenda that mortgages our children's future - the bailouts, the "stimulus" program, and (the increasingly unpopular) cap and tax. Fiorina's support for fiscally reckless Democrat policies makes it hard to tell her apart from Boxer.

    Fiorina – the McCainian Candidate

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Senate candidate Chuck DeVore's latest campaign video should strike a chord with centrists and fiscal conservatives. DeVore effectively points out how opponent Carly Fiorina and Democrat opponent Barbara Boxer are much the same. He correctly points out how Fiorina has supported the fiscally reckless Democrat agenda that mortgages our children's future - the bailouts, the "stimulus" program, and (the increasingly unpopular) cap and tax. Fiorina's support for fiscally reckless Democrat policies makes it hard to tell her apart from Boxer.

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  • A proposed pension reform initiative, the Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (PEBRA), should die an early death and never see the ballot box. PEBRA gives state workers pension guarantees superior to private sector workers. It does nothing to fix the current pension mess. PEBRA does little to reform the generous "3 at 50" retirement benefit that is bankrupting the state. It leaves the door open for taxpayers to pay state worker health and pensions costs in full. PEBRA isn't the reform California needs - eliminating pension guarantees completely.

    Pension Reform Sham

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | 8 Comments
    A proposed pension reform initiative, the Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (PEBRA), should die an early death and never see the ballot box. PEBRA gives state workers pension guarantees superior to private sector workers. It does nothing to fix the current pension mess. PEBRA does little to reform the generous "3 at 50" retirement benefit that is bankrupting the state. It leaves the door open for taxpayers to pay state worker health and pensions costs in full. PEBRA isn't the reform California needs - eliminating pension guarantees completely.

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  • Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so goes the cliche.  This week’s elections show the power of that cliche, with notable GOP victories despite the utter cluelessness […]

    GOP Gives Licking, But Clock Not Ticking

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so goes the cliche.  This week’s elections show the power of that cliche, with notable GOP victories despite the utter cluelessness […]

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