In no particular order: I’m gratified the SF Giants beat the Phillies tonight, especially because as a result I won a 6-1 bet placed legally at the sports book at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas four months ago, when tonight reliever Brian Wilson earned a questionable called strike three to get the save tonight and win the pennant. I’ll use the $600 I won right after the election to entertain conservative cronies at The Foundation Room in Vegas at an after election dinner. Our Western CPAC was a huge success last weekend in Newport Beach, and main speaker, pollster Scott Rasmussen, got us two days of national press on The Drudge Report with his prediction of over 50 Republican pickups in the Congress. Thanks to Newport Beach Councilman Keith Curry for stopping by, who joined six Congressmen – five from Ca and one from Utah! Special thanks to Jon Fleischman and my long time friend Congressman Darrell Issa for much suport and a great speech from Issa! I enjoyed a 12 minute shot on the KTTV Channel 11 news last Saturday night after Western CPAC, debating liberal Jamie Court on the Insurance Commissioner election. So cool to level liberals.… Read More

I am currently enjoying a mail piece called the Democrat[ic] Election Education Guide. [Italics and brackets by me]by the Election Education Guide folks of Burbank, a slate mailer group. It has a picture of an owl on the address side,the mailer isa real hoot.

It features every statewide candidate and proposition endorsed by the CA Dem Party, Firefighters, Nurses, Teachers and College Professors. [I love that lastpart, are Dem voters really turned on to what college professors think politically? really? funny!]

It has the entire slate of statewide Dems from US Senatethru that ‘non-partisan’ Superintendant of Public Indoctri…er Instruction. The laser printed portion that is specific to our area has the Dem’s listed for BOE, Congress, State Senate,[awww, they didn’tpick me] and another funny, for Assembly, "No Democrat in your district"on the ballot. Yeah, I guess it isn’t an unbiased mail piece butan "Education Guide" to getDems turned out. OK,fair… Read More

One of the most maddening set of ads this political campaign season are the ads the Democrats are running against Mike Villines and Abel Maldonado.Both men were key Republican votes for last year’s budget in which Governor Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative leaders choose to raise taxes rather than make tough spending cuts.According to an email that I just received from Democrat Dave Jones (who clearly purchased or was given a GOP list), Villines raised our taxes $14 billion. Republican voters don’t need Dave Jones and Gavin Newsom to tell us what Villines and Maldonado did last year.We know. What we need Dave Jones and Gavin Newsom to tell us is the truth:that the Governor and their party supported and encouraged Villines and Maldonado to change their positions and cast that vote.I know that no one held a gun to their head but the pressure “to do the right thing and pass a budget” was great.And I’m … Read More

Wow–a hard-hitting ad from Citizens Against Government Waste. Worth watching.

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David Zucker, the man behind such hits as “Airplane” and the “Naked Gun” series, is using his comedic genius to take on Barbara “Don’t call me ma’am” Boxer in a hilarious new video. On Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood web site today, Zucker explained that after watching Boxer’s arrogant dressing-down of Brigadier GeneralWalsh during a committee hearing last year, he was mortified that he had ever supported Boxer. Read the rest of his blog here.

It’s refreshing and encouraging to see so many talented individuals in Hollywood are waking up to the truth and embracing conservative principles—despite potential backlash among their peers. Thanks to the boldness of people like Andrew Breitbart and David Zucker, more and more of those in the entertainment industry can openly share their political beliefs.

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Few people that I know have not seen the movie Groundhog Day, where comedian Bill Murray plays a television news weatherman who keeps re-living the same day (starting at 6 a.m.) over, and over, and over again. It would appear that San Diego City voters are being treated to their own real-life version of Groundhog day – this one not so funny.

In early 2009, politicians in Sacramento cooked up in a back room Proposition 1A. This measure contained some purported reforms (the credibility of which was debunked) in exchange for California voters approving a two year extension of car, sales and income taxes to the tune of over $14 billion dollars. On May 19 of last year, the voters sent a very loud and clear message to the political class by rejected Proposition 1A, and not by a small margin. In the final tally 65.4% of voters – nearly two-thirds – voted no. By any measure, a landslide loss for the measure. Voters were simply not willing to tax themselves more to… Read More

Part of the reason why a reasonable Propositionlike 23, which would merely abate the radical "Global Warming Solutions Act" until California reaches ‘only’ 5.5% unemployment, is the failure of California businesses to "man up"

The Tipping Point probably came in the last decade, when California big businessturned intoa craven political creature. The LA Times confirms recent polling that Prop 23, which was slightly ahead in September at 52 to 41% is slipping to 44 – 49%.

Even liberal economists recognize that the Global Warming Solutions Act will cost billions to energy businesses and transportation directly. The GWSA will have astatistically zero impact to planet earth. But "green" business will thrive. Yet the percentage of so-called green jobs is maybe 3%. While 97% of the work force suffers, 3% benefit. Liberals successfully created an emerging government favored elite.

The two oil companies who help pony up some $9 million is facing 16 separate committees ranging from the notorious Sierra Club to billionaires in Silicon Valley. They argue that Prop 23… Read More

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