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Build a Wall: Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump’s Alternative To The Demographic Californication Of America
This recent quote from Rush Limbaugh surprised me: If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California. There isn’t a single Republican in statewide office. There never will be in the future. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, donald trump, immigration, Republican party, rush limbaugh
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The Mighty Limbaugh Has Struck Out: What Limbaugh Being Dropped From KFI Means
Clear Channel owns both KFI (perhaps the largest radio station west of the Mississippi, broadcasting from Los Angeles and reaching much of California and Nevada) and KTLK (a radio backwater, also based in LA, with a very narrow signal range, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Baby Boomers, California, KFI, Millenials, radio, Red State, rush limbaugh
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Bill Maher on Liberal California
As a Californian, I can say that Maher’s description of the state is dead-on. It really is nice here.
Louis Black on Texas v. Illinois, California, and New York
A nice volley in the American culture wars.
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Tagged America, California, comedy, culture wars, humor, illinois, Louis Black, new york, texas
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Huell Howser Impersonator
Comedian James Adomian parodies Huell Howser perfectly here (but you’ll have to click over to YouTube to watch it): __________ Howser was an institution on public television in California, going around the state interviewing people. Homosexual and originally from Tennessee, … Continue reading
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Tagged California, curiosity, death, friendship, happiness, Huell Howser, life, love, poetry
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Blink or Wait? Frank Partnoy Recommends Waiting
__________ An article on some of his ideas here.
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Tagged blink, California, critical thinking, frank partnoy, impulsivity, reason, San Diego, think, wait
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At Last, an Honest Budget: Why I’m Glad Jerry Brown is Governor of California
When Jerry Brown ran for governor last year, I voted for him. One reason I did so was because I believed that he would be likely to keep everything above-board, budget-wise. He has delivered in spades. After recently vetoing a budget … Continue reading
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Tagged America, budget balancing, budget cutting, California, college, deficit, education, jerry brown, Politics, silicon valley, taxes
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Toy Helicopter with Camara Buzzes Venice
The beach. The one in California.
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Tagged beach, beauty, California, flight, helicopter, life, mental health break, summer, Venice
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Something Good about America: Not Oil Wells, But Mind Wells
Notice in this 60 Minutes segment that Indian geniuses are not flocking to oil-rich Arab countries where a conformist religion like Islam dominates the culture. Instead, they come to Enlightenment-based secular California, to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is a mind well … Continue reading
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Tagged America, brain drains, California, India, mind, mind wells, oil, reason, science, silicon valley
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Community Colleges, the Enrollment Bottleneck, and a Dirty Little Secret
On April 8, 2011, the New York Times ran a piece on students making: . . . a strategic financial decision to attend community college first as a cost saving measure. The cost savings can be large (perhaps somewhere in the … Continue reading
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Tagged antelope valley college, bottlenecks, California, college, community college, dirty secret, education, higher education, money, students, teachers
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California’s Governor, Jerry Brown, Gives a Great Speech
California Governor Jerry Brown gave an extraordinary State of the State speech yesterday. He anchored it in democratic principle and didn’t in any way evade the budget issues facing the state. It reminds me of why I voted for him: And … Continue reading
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Tagged abduction, California, democracy, freedom, jerry brown, Politics, taxes
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Can You Balance California’s Budget? Here’s a Link to a Calculator Where You Can Try.
Here’s a link to the Los Angeles Times’ balanced budget calculator. It’s there that you can imagine yourself wielding the budget ax, raising taxes, or doing some combination of the two to bring California’s $28 billion deficit over the next 18 months … Continue reading
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Tagged budget cutting, California, debt, economics, friedman, jobs, keynes, recession
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California Budget Crisis Watch: As Jerry Brown Assumes the Governorship, Education Braces for Big Spending Cuts
The State of California faces a $28-billion funding deficit over the next 18 months, and education costs consume 40% of the state’s budget. That means that cuts to education are coming. Big cuts. Here’s the Los Angeles Times today: Treasurer Bill Lockyer, who … Continue reading
California is Spain: A Debt Crisis Looms for the Golden State
This is front page news in the New York Times today, and, as a California resident, it’s alarming: [M]any state and local governments have so much debt — several trillion dollars’ worth, with much of it off the books and largely … Continue reading
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Tagged America, California, debt, debt crisis, economics, economy, gold, Great Depression 2.0, illinois, jerry brown, new jersey, Sarah Palin
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A Good Jerry Brown Ad
I love California. I love Jerry Brown.
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Tagged America, California, economy, green jobs, jerry brown, meg whitman, Politics, yes we can
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Dr. David Jeremiah’s El Cajon, California
This morning I heard on the radio a megachurch pastor by the name of Dr. David Jeremiah say some really wild things (even by fundamentalist standards). A description of what I heard him say in his sermon is here. Anyway, his megachurch is … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Christianity, david jeremiah, el cajon, fundamentalism, Jesus, megachurches, suburbia, towns, UFOs
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The “It Gets Better Project” at YouTube
What would your older self say to your younger self, if you could? That’s the premise behind the It Gets Better Project: older gays and lesbians attempt to persuade gay and lesbian teens contemplating suicide to refrain and look with … Continue reading
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Tagged America, California, Colorado, don't ask don't tell, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, homosexuality, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, lesbian
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Is Muslim/Non-Muslim Dialogue Valuable?: Juanita, a Christian, Shares Her Opinion with Santi, an Agnostic, on a Balmy Sunday in Lancaster, Ca.
And Joseph, a Muslim, was behind the video camara:
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Tagged America, California, dialogue, diversity, Islam, Jesus, judging others, Muslim, pluralism, psychology, Thomas Jefferson
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