Attorney firing political, report says (9/30/08, page A14)
Marisa Taylor, McClatchy
Do Attorney Generals serve at the pleasure of the president or not?
If so, then the president can hire and fire whomever he wants for whatever reason he wants.
Oh wait, that doesn’t apply to Republican presidents, only Democrats.
Notice how Marisa never bothered to tell her readers about who has final say on hiring and [...]
New school may create noise, traffic (9/29/08, page A3)
Kimberly S. Wetzel, CCTimes
Clear example of these overkill EIRs. They try to predict the future and you end up with lawsuits that drive up the cost of everything for Californians. Wetzel should have followed up with the potential added costs of defending against these lawsuits.
BTW, is that headline a joke? May?
GOP tax stance: Pure or pureed? (9/29/08, Front Page)
Steven Harmon, MediaNews
Holy moly! The Democrats run the state of California and get their butts handed to them by the Republicans over this year’s budget. So what does the liberal Contra Costa Times run on the budget agreement: the Republicans caved!
What’s worse is the source for this story: “. . . Democrats say evidence proves [...]
Editorial pages (9/28/08, pages A20-A23)
When Tammerlin Drummond has the most conservative comments (and she didn’t, she gave us a history lesson) you know your newspaper has gone off the DailyKos cliff.
Thomas Poole attacked Gov. Palin for her “exploration of censorship.” Heaven forbid you ask an politically incorrect question these days. He nit-picks on Palin the way most liberals do [...]
Drilling off state shores unlikely (9/28/08, page A3)
Paul Rogers, MediaNews
ALTERNATE HEADLINE: California Gasoline Prices to Remain High
Rogers completely ignored the effect of these environmental policies pursued by democrats and Gov. Kennedy. Working families, which Dems profess to represent, will continue to pay a greater portion of their income to pay for gasoline. What effect does this have on the California economy? Don’t [...]
Gore calls for restricting free speech (9/27/08, not in CCTimes)
Global warming alarmists Al Gore called on state attorney generals to “investigate” any energy company that dares to express it’s opinion on global warming. He made these statements on Wednesday while speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in NY.
“I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from [...]
Doonesbury (9/25/08, page D4)
Garry Trudeau, political cartoonist
The cowardly attacks keep coming. CCTimesWatch keeps telling the other side the CCTimes won’t let you see.