The nanny state is alive and well in Sacramento. Some group came out with a study that concluded, with what may be shocking news to some, but not to this blogger — sugar-filled soda pop causes weight gain when consumed regularly!

Is there someone out there that would like to pay me to conduct a study on whether eating chocolate bars regularly will do the same? Probably not.

Oh well, the study having been conducted, it’s results were telegraphed in MSM articles up and down the state, and invariably there will be magazine articles, and the study-authors will probably pen some sort of book on the subject. That’s the ideas marketplace at work — telegraphing information out there so that, in this case, parents can decide the value of it and if or whether they are going to do anything because of it.

That said, I was unimpressed to find out (h/t CapitolAlert) that the California legislature has (I am not making this up) a "Select Committee on Obesity and Diabetes" and that it’s Chairman, Alex Padilla, wants to convene hearings on this… Read More

The Governor has asked the Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate ACORN. Based on the video sting in San Bernardino and San Diego that is a good first start.

Congress just cut off funds to ACORN. But, the question I have gotten over the last few days is what does ACORN get from the state. ACORN is made up of an array of organizations. Some of this organizations may be getting funds from various agencies may be granting them funds for "outreach", housing, voter registration etc…

I asked the Governor to find out if money is going from these agencies to ACORN and if it is shut it off. Of course we shouldn’t fund these types of groups with state dollars to begin with. But, we should be able to stop this one.… Read More

The last couple of days as I have been surfing innumerable websites gathering interesting political links for FlashReport readers, I have noted something interesting over at the venerable RedState website, one of the leading national conservative places on the web. Below is a clip from their main page this morning, and below I have attached a full sized image (click on the link).

Look who is showing serious love to our friends at RedState!

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The scandal surrounding ACORN has been spreading around the country as videos have been released on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website (based here in California) showing ACORN employees saying all kinds of outrageous thinks to a pair of actors coming into their offices posing as a pimp and a prostitute. The videos are amazing to see, and are definitely newsworthy.

As these videos have been released and the ACORN scandal has unfolded, I have kept an eye (as many California politicos do) on the various main stream media blogs here in the Golden State. While I didn’t see any coverage of the ACORN scandal at the beginning, I figured once the scandal hit California (recent videos expose workers in ACORN offices in San Bernardino and San Diego Counties) that they would write on it for sure, and link the videos (most of these blogs routinely embed videos — especially when they are easy to grab — Breitbart has these on Youtube). Nope. Nada.

In fact, we really didn’t see any California MSM political blog coverage at all until Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday afternoon… Read More

The scandal surrounding ACORN has been spreading around the country as videos have been released on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website (based here in California) showing ACORN employees saying all kinds of outrageous thinks to a pair of actors coming into their offices posing as a pimp and a prostitute. The videos are amazing to see, and are definitely newsworthy.

As these videos have been released and the ACORN scandal has unfolded, I have kept an eye (as many California politicos do) on the various main stream media blogs here in the Golden State. While I didn’t see any coverage of the ACORN scandal at the beginning, I figured once the scandal hit California (recent videos expose workers in ACORN offices in San Bernardino and San Diego Counties) that they would write on it for sure, and link the videos (most of these blogs routinely embed videos — especially when they are easy to grab — Breitbart has these on Youtube). Nope. Nada.

In fact, we really didn’t see any California MSM political blog coverage at all until Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday afternoon… Read More

This just in. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today sent a letter to Attorney General Jerry Brown calling for a "full investigation into ACORN’s activities in California." The letter is attached below.

Also, according to Jim Sills at sdrostra.com, Sean Hannity tonight will air another video investigation of ACORN out of San Diego. Read it here.

Developing.… Read More

Republican candidate for Governor Steve Poizner unveiled a new and innovative conservative tax policy yesterday at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. Commissioner Poizner is proposing across-the-board tax cuts for every Californian and an innovative jobs program that will get California’s economy back on track. One of the things I like best about Poizner’s plan is that he is proposing specific, detailed policies on how to cut taxes. I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves: When he is Governor, Poizner will enact the following tax cuts: · 10% cut in personal income tax rates · 10% cut in the state sales tax rate · 10% cut in the corporation tax rate · … Read More

Imagine that you are the proud owner of a cement manufacturing company. The government has just sent you an informative, yet unfortunate reminder that your production costs are about to be raised yet again.

As a person working in the cement industry, you probably followed the legislative proceedings regarding the Global Warming Solution Act of 2006 (Nunez), that was passed into California law. After three years, you receive this reminder from the government that, after three long years, their statewide crackdown on global warming is ready for action!

Well, not exactly.

Before things really get going, they’ll need just a little more of your money: 10 cents for every ton of cement that your plant produces, to be exact. This may not seem like much to an ordinary citizen, but you know full well that the average cement establishment, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Portland Cement Association, produces over 420,000 tons of cement yearly. This means that the $42,000 you could have spent to create another California job is now going to help pay for a new government position on the Air Resources Board.

And even that assessment is an… Read More