Posted in politics, tagged 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 911, balance, ballot, bankruptcy, bitter pill, blame, bonds, budget, California, Californians, capitol, conservatism, conservative, controversy, crisis, cuts, deficit, Democrat, early childhood development, economic, election, electorate, enacting, fifth largest economy, fiscal, foreclosure, funds, general fund, George Skelton, Golden State, governor, Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, initiatives, irresponsible, Jon Coupal, LA Times, lawmakers, liberal, lottery, May revise, measures, mental health, Michael Rothfeld, newspaper, Official Voter Information Guide, operating, opinions, overextended, owe, pain, pay, peter to rob paul, piper, policy, political, politicians, polls, pragmatic, President Reagan, prisons, problem, program, property values, propositions, receivership, recession, recovery, red, Republican, revenues, Sacramento, salaries, Schwarzenegger, settling the books, social, special election, special interests, spending, state, taxation, taxes, three strikes, unions, vote, voting booth on May 19, 2009 |
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Remember when, on some rare occasion, the correct answer to a test question in school was “all of the above”? I happen to believe that much of life outside the confines of a classroom is like that. Each of us perceives an aspect of a given political or social problem on which we base a set of mostly valid observations. What we have less time and patience for are the dots we have yet to connect.
Take California’s special election. (more…)
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Election 2008: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Posted in politics, tagged alarmism, Americans, bankrupt, Barack Obama, Big Brother, bipartisan, bureaucracy, business, candidate, Capitol Hill, centrist, change, Chicken Little, civil liberties, civility, commentators, competitiveness, compromise, congress, conservative, conspiracy, Constitution, critical thinking, David Walker, debt, deficit, Democrats, economy, election, energy, entitlements, extremism, fanaticism, Founders, fourth amendment, future, GOP, happy medium, health care, hindsight, illegal immigration, innovation, insolvent, jobs, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Left, lessons, liberal, lost, media, middle ground, moderate, news, Oval Office, paranoia, partisan, party, past, personalities, platform, polemic, politicians, president, primary, pundits, radicalism, Reagan, Real ID, reckless, Republicans, RFID, Right, Ron Paul, senate, small government, stray, surveillance, taxes, values, won on November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The ballots are still being tallied but the electorate has spoken: (more…)
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