Last week, Rep. John Campbell was denied the OC GOP Central Committee endorsement on the grounds that slight more than a third of the group’s members sought to punish the Congressman for his vote on TARP and the auto…
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The Angry Right
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
The weekend kicked off with a spirited debate between LiberalOC publisher Chris Prevatt and the OC Register’s Mark Landsbaum over an editorial in the Register reacting to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Landsbaum has published not one –…
Register Editorial on Domestic Energy uses Data from Koch Industries-backed Group
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
The OC Register’s editorial pages continue to promote the free market approach to everything and carried this editorial on the vast reserves of domestic fossil fuel in North America which surpasses the oil reserves in the Middle East. According to…
Bloggers or Journalists?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 19 Comments
Chris and I were talking about this topic earlier this week. And having met several people at Senator Corerra’s holiday open house, the subject came up again. Is TheLiberalOC a political news blog or are we an opinion blog,…
Don’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Changing Your Mind
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
“I glanced through the stuff you gave me. While I did not fact check it…or even finish it, I do not believe that it contains all of the governmental fees, taxes on corporations, import, export, excise, permitting…etc, etc, etc…that all gets passed along to us. You may be right about state and federal income tax rates, but the statistics that I have seen indicate that 50% of the GDP goes to government ultimately in one form or another.
