Late last year, I had an interesting exchange on LinkedIn of all places with someone from the Register trying to entice me into subscribing to the paper citing all the new changes. But when it comes to the editorial pages…
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AT&T, Private Business Lobbying Dwarfs Union Lobbying Efforts – LA Times
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
We’re a couple of days late commenting on this story from Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, but when I saw it I immediately thought of the OC Register’s editorial writer Brian Calle who laments the $6 million the California Teacher’s Association…
Lobbying Money in Sacramento: Business Groups and Governments Outspend Unions
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
In their never ending quest to expose the “evils” of unions, the Register’s Brian Calle has this post about the amount of money unions spend lobby state legislators in Sacramento. It’s a telling piece about how much is spent by…
Board Rejection of Health Care Grant Funding Request Shortsighted
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
The County of Orange County Mission Statement, approved by the Board of Supervisors reads: “Making Orange County a safe, healthy, and fulfilling place to live, work, and play… On February 28th the Board, led by Chairman John Moorlach, failed miserably in reaching towards their stated goal.
Atlas Sucked Part II Coming to Theaters in 2012? Part I on DVD in the Fall?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 8 Comments
That amazing comedian and movie critic Steven Greenhut made a prediction that “Atlas Shrugged Part I” would like enjoy strong DVD sales. For a dreadful flick that was panned by the critics and struggled to earn 25 percent of its…
Shooting at Flies: Blaming Public Employee Pensions for Budget Shortfalls
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
The Orange County Register’s Brian Calle fired off a hyperbolic rant on Sunday, January 30, 2011 blaming public employee pensions, and public employee unions for crushing budget shortfalls he likened to a tsunami that has reached the shoreline. Great rhetoric…
The Failure of Supply Side Economics
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
The Register’s Brian Calle and John Seiler have both weighed in on our repsonse post about the failure of Reaganomics, better described as “supply side economics” citing the 40th president’s view that placing more money in the hands of Americans…
